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Here are some customer reviews of Ringo : I'm a kid[8 years] that likes Ringo and so does my dad. My favorite songs are JUST YOU AND ME BABE and YOU'RE SIXTEEN. But every song is good. This cd is one of Ringo's best.Many kids would like this cd. This really is a terrific CD, but I am biased because I have owned it as a cassette, which we played on our honeymoon, an LP [with terrific artwork which you can really only appreciate in the LP format] and now as a CD. The bonus tracks are at least as good a reason for purchase as Ringo's versions of Randy Newman's "Have You Seen My Baby?" "Photograph" "Six O'Clock" and the knock out version of "You're Sixteen." I love Ringo's funny song "Early 1970" in which he laughs at his musical ability [says he can only play in the key of C] and John and Yoko's habit of lying in bed watching Cookie Monster on Sesame Street [which John also refers to in his song "Hold On."] And you get "It Don't Come Easy" and one or two others. Forget about Free As A Bird or Real Love. This is the closest we've ever gotten to a Beatles reunion. This is a fun album from the least likely of the Fab Four to make one. I'm The Greatest, Photograph, You're Sixteen are classics. And yes, he DOES play the drums. While far from perfect, this album could ONLY have been made by Ringo, and ONLY in the 1972-73 time frame. Who else in the Beatles could have arranged for the other three to not only appear on the album, but contribute at least one song each? (He co-wrote "Photograph," maybe one of the best post-Beatles singles ever, with Harrison, too.) He sings Lennon's cocky "I'm the Greatest" with both John AND George adding support on the track, unashamedly being proud of his past and looking forward to the future. Randy Newman's "Hold On" (Have You Seen My Baby) gets a bright, poppy cover here--one of my favorites on the disc. Did George Harrison ever write a cooler song than "Sunshine Life For Me?" If you get a chance to hear Don McLean's version of it sometime, it's a real kick, too. Side two (sorry, I'm dating myself -- the last five songs on the original album) aren't quite as good as side one--although Oh My My is a great forgotten oldie that you never hear anymore. McCartney's "Six O'Clock" is rather tedious after awhile and "Devil Woman," a song with a fairly nice beat and melody, suffers from simply bad lyrics. Nice to see them add songs that didn't ever make it to an album. "It Don't Come Easy," Ringo's biggest (and first solo) hit; "Early 1970," its flip side, is probably the best song about the Beatles breakup ever written; and "Down and Out" is the flip side to the Photograph single. It's dumb, but the players are having fun on it. Enjoy "Ringo." Who doesn't? its his best album, every song on it is good

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