The Beatles Official Newsletter 13th January 2010 For the first time ever, Ringo produces himself on his most personal album yet. Ringo is joined on Y Not by old and new friends including Paul, with whom Ringo sings on Y Not's stunning first single, "Walk With You", a moving new song about the power of friendship. NEWS RELEASE: For the first time in one of popular music's most enduring and illustrious careers, Ringo has decided to take charge and produce himself. The result is perhaps the most personal and impressive album of this rock legend's entire solo career. Y Not is a groovy and deeply felt song cycle that finds Ringo leading a smaller core group of old and new friends including longtime pal and recent brother-in-law Joe Walsh, Dave Stewart and longtime Roundheads member Steve Dudas on guitar, Benmont Tench of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers on keyboards, Don Was and Mike Bradford on bass. The album also features Starr's engineer and co-producer Bruce Sugar on keyboards, as well as some special guests like Edgar Winter on horns and alto sax, and Joss Stone, Ben Harper and Richard Marx on vocals, Ann Marie Calhoun on violin and Tina Sugandh - aka Tina The Tabla Girl â€" on tabla and chanting. Starr's songwriting collaborators on Y Not also include familiar and new names like Joe Walsh, Dave Stewart. Joss Stone, Glen Ballard, Richard Marx, Van Dyke Parks, Gary Nicholson plus Gary Wright and his former Roundhead band member, Gary Burr. Yet no collaborator featured on Y Not is likely to receive as much attention as Starr's former bandmate and longstanding mate Paul, who adds a characteristically brilliant bass part to the inspiring "Peace Dream" - Starr's latest heartfelt plea for peace and love - and even more notably provides his unmistakably fabulous vocals to "Walk With You," an exquisite new composition by Starr and Van Dyke Parks. "Walk With You" is a moving, even spiritual meditation about the lasting power of friendship, and McCartney's inspired participation on the track was a testament to McCartney's generosity of spirit and musical talent. "Paul was doing the Grammys, so he came over to the house and was playing bass on "Peace Dream." So I played him this other track and Paul said, "Give me the headphones. Give me a pair of cans". And he went to the mike and he just invented that part where he follows on my vocal. That was all Paul McCartney, and there could be nothing better. He makes it bigger and he makes it fuller. It makes the song like a conversation between us, and that was Paul's idea to do his part one beat behind me. That's why he's a genius and an incredible bass player." Starr was already particularly thrilled with one early review for the first album he produced that came from someone he helped produce too. "I just played it for my son Zak," Starr explains. "And Zak was so great. He said, "Dad, it's great. This rocks! You should have been doing this forever. It's nice coming from your boy, especially since he's a really good drummer." Listen for yourself. And hear Ringo Starr - also a really good drummer - doing exactly what he should be doing today and forever. Why?, Y Not. --

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