Time Takes Time
Time Takes Time | ||||
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Released | 22 May 1992 | |||
Recorded | March–September 1991, February 1992 | |||
Genre | Rock | |||
Length | 40:04 | |||
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Time Takes Time is the 10th studio album by Ringo Starr. His first studio album since 1983's Old Wave, it followed a successful 1989–90 world tour with his first All-Starr Band. Released in 1992, Time Takes Time was a critically-acclaimed comeback album, and featured several celebrity guests including Brian Wilson, Harry Nilsson and Electric Light Orchestra front-man Jeff Lynne.
Background
In February 1987, Starr started work on his first new studio album in four years. Sessions began with producer
Recording
Starr had initially intended to try out four producers, and select the best to record the whole album with: '...because it's been so long for me that I didn't really know any producers I wanted to go with for the whole record. So I figured I'd try a few people.'[5] Aligning himself with top producers Don Was, Peter Asher, Phil Ramone and Jeff Lynne, the album was recorded sporadically between March and September 1991, and finished in February 1992.[1] Jim Horn, who plays all the saxophone parts on the album, had previously worked on Starr's Ringo (1973).[6] The material was written predominantly by outside writers, with Starr co-writing three songs. Time Takes Time also marked Starr's first alliance with Mark Hudson, who assisted with the background vocals and arrangements on some of the Ramone-produced tracks.[nb 2][6]
In April 1991, Starr recorded with fellow label artist,
Several tracks were left off the album.[9] The primarily McCartney-penned song "Angel in Disguise",[1] to which Starr added a verse, has never been released.[nb 3][9] Starr covered "Don't Be Cruel" but it was left off the album[10] and was issued as the B-side of the CD single "Weight of the World"[11] but was included on the Japanese edition of the album.[12] Another outtake, "Everybody Wins",[1] was issued in Germany as the B-side of the "Don't Go Where the Road Don't Go" single.[7] Three more outtakes that were never released were "Thank You for Being a Friend",[1] the Ramone-produced "Love Is Going to Get You",[nb 4][13] and the Lynne-produced "Call Me".[1] Lynne has said that "Call Me" would never be released,[14] which Tom Petty appears on.[14] Although Starr had recorded and released another song entitled "Call Me" as far back as 1974, it bore no resemblance to the Lynne-produced number.[14]
Release
Starr released an announcement about the album, the single "Weight of the World", and an All-Starr tour, on 28 February 1992.
Time Takes Time was released in the US on 22 May,[nb 7] and in the UK on 29 June, by Private Music.[nb 8][20] Starr commented that he had not 'been this happy with an album since Ringo in 1973. It's time I stretched.' However, the album failed to chart.[8] While a planned single release on 3 July in the US of "Don't Go Where the Road Don't Go", backed with "Everyone Wins", was shelved,[21] a CD edition of the single managed to get released in Germany on 21 September.[nb 9][12] The 7" vinyl edition of the single was also released in Germany and had "Don't Know a Thing About Love" as the B-side, released on the same day.[nb 10][12] Starr again appeared on Arsenio on 21 October, being interviewed and then performing "Don't Go Where the Road Don't Go" and "Act Naturally".[22] Times Takes Time was released on vinyl only in Mexico, Brazil, Spain and Germany.[nb 11] Despite an All-Starr tour in 1992 to promote the album,[1] Time Takes Time would be Starr's only release with Private Music before he was dropped from their roster.
Reception
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Source | Rating |
The Essential Rock Discography | 6/10[25] |
MusicHound | 2/5[26] |
Q | [27] |
Rolling Stone | [28] |
The album received mixed reviews upon release, although one critic considered Time Takes Time to be Starr's best album since 1973's Ringo: Rolling Stone magazine wrote, "The drummer's most consistent, wide-awake album since Ringo, from 1973".[28] The release failed to chart in either the UK or USA. Lead single "Weight of the World" managed to reach No. 74 in the UK charts.[29]
Track listing
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Weight of the World" | Brian O'Doherty, Fred Velez | 3:54 |
2. | "Don't Know a Thing About Love" | Richard Feldman, Stan Lynch | 3:49 |
3. | "Don't Go Where the Road Don't Go" | Richard Starkey, Johnny Warman, Gary Grainger | 3:20 |
4. | "Golden Blunders" | Jonathan Auer, Kenneth Stringfellow | 4:06 |
5. | "All in the Name of Love" | Jerry Lynn Williams | 3:42 |
6. | "After All These Years" | Starkey, Warman | 3:10 |
7. | "I Don't Believe You" | Andy Sturmer, Roger Manning | 2:48 |
8. | "Runaways" | Starkey, Warman | 4:51 |
9. | "In a Heartbeat" | Diane Warren | 4:29 |
10. | "What Goes Around" | Rick Suchow | 5:50 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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11. | "Don't Be Cruel" | Otis Blackwell, Elvis Presley | 2:08 |
Personnel
Personnel per booklet.[30]
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References
- Footnotes
- ^ Among the total of 16 songs recorded, some include: "Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day", "Some Kind of Wonderful", "Beat Patrol", "Ain't That a Shame", "Whiskey and Cola", and "I Can Help".[1]
- ^ Starr and Hudson would later work together on Vertical Man (1998), VH1 Storytellers (1998), I Wanna Be Santa Claus (1999), and Ringo Rama (2003), among other albums.[6]
- ^ Being interviewed by a Toronto Sun reporter on 25 October, McCartney said that 'Ringo wanted an extra verse, so I said, 'Let's write the extra verse together. Or you can just write it and we'll have co-written the song.' I understand he has written a third verse. If it's another "With A Little Help From My Friends", great, if it isn't, great!'[1]
- ^ Ramone commented that the song was "great [...] but it did not fit with the character of the songs he did" so far.[13]
- ^ US Private Music 01005-81003-2[17]
- ^ 7": UK Private Music 115,392; CD: UK Private Music 665,392[18]
- ^ US Private Music 01005-82097-2[20]
- ^ UK Private Music 262 902[5]
- ^ "Everyone Wins" was mistitled as "Everybody Wins".[12]
- ^ CD: Germany Private Music 74321 11369 2; 7" vinyl: Germany Private Music 74321 11369 7[12]
- ^ Starr's following albums weren't released on vinyl until Y Not (2010).
- Citations
- ^ ISBN 9780711983076.
- ^ ISBN 9780753508435.
- ISBN 9780753508435.
- ISBN 9780753508435.
- ^ ISBN 9780753508435.
- ^ ISBN 9780753508435.
- ^ a b c Porter, Robert. "Jeff Lynne Song Database – 1990s Songs". Jefflynnesongs.com. Retrieved 28 February 2013. Scroll down to the section header Miscellaneous production sessions 1991 & 1992 click Don't Go Where The Road Don't Go then click Single/Album Version.
- ^ ISBN 9780753508435.
- ^ a b Clayson, Alan "Ringo Starr: Straight Man Or Joker", Sanctuary Publishing, Ltd. 1998 p.334
- ISBN 9780753508435.
- ^ Porter, Robert. "Jeff Lynne Song Database – 1990s Songs". Jefflynnesongs.com. Retrieved 28 February 2013. Scroll down to the section header Miscellaneous production sessions 1991 & 1992 click After All These Years then click Album Version.
- ^ ISBN 9780753508435.
- ^ ISBN 9780753508435.
- ^ a b c Porter, Robert. "Jeff Lynne Song Database – 1990s Songs". Jefflynnesongs.com. Retrieved 28 February 2013. Scroll down to the section header Miscellaneous production sessions 1991 & 1992 click Call Me then click Unreleased Studio Recording.
- ^ ISBN 9780753508435.
- ^ ISBN 9780753508435.
- ISBN 9780753508435.
- ISBN 9780753508435.
- ISBN 9780753508435.
- ^ ISBN 9780753508435.
- ISBN 9780753508435.
- ISBN 9780753508435.
- AllMusic
- ISBN 978-0-85712-595-8.
- ISBN 978-184195-827-9.
- ISBN 1-57859-061-2), pp. 1082–83.
- ^ Nicol, Jimmy (July 1992). "New LPs: Ringo Starr Time Takes Time". Q. p. 99.
- ^ a b Puterbaugh, Parke (6 August 1992). "Ringo Starr: Time Takes Time : Music Reviews". rollingstone.com. Archived from the original on 2 October 2007. Retrieved 21 June 2013.
- ^ Calkin, Graham. "Ringo Starr – Weight of the World". Jpgr.co.uk. Retrieved 9 February 2013.
- ^ Time Takes Time (Booklet). Ringo Starr. Private Music. 1992. 262902.
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External links
- Time Takes Time at Discogs (list of releases)
- Summary of Time Takes Time from "Complete U.K. Discography of John, Paul, George and Ringo"