Choose Love (album)
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| Released | 7 June 2005 | |||
| Recorded | Mid-2004 – early 2005 | |||
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| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 44:36 | |||
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Choose Love is the fourteenth studio album by English singer-songwriter Ringo Starr. It was released on 7 June 2005 through Koch Records and CNR Records.
Background and recording
[edit]Recorded throughout 2004 into 2005, using the same team that created Vertical Man (1998) and Ringo Rama (2003), Starr produced the set with longtime musical partner Mark Hudson and performed it with their studio team. The title track has a Beatles-like "Day Tripper" guitar riff with a coda similar to "The Word" and mentions the Beatles songs "The Long and Winding Road", "Tomorrow Never Knows" and "What Goes On", as well as lyric checking the Starr solo single "It Don't Come Easy". Starr's albums are known for including celebrity guests; Choose Love features Billy Preston and Chrissie Hynde.
Release
[edit]Choose Love was released on 7 June 2005 in the US,[nb 1] and on 25 July in the UK.[1] There was an edition of the album that was a dual disc (CD on side, DVD on the other), with the DVD component featuring bonus features on the making of the album.[nb 2]
Reception
[edit]| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [3] |
| entertainment.ie | [4] |
| The Essential Rock Discography | 5/10[5] |
| The Music Box | [6] |
| Star-News | (favorable)[7] |
Choose Love failed to chart in both the UK and US, where both Vertical Man and Ringo Rama had seen commercial success. The album received strong reviews upon its release and preceded another promotional tour with Starr and his studio band, called "The Roundheads".
Track listing
[edit]| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Fading In Fading Out" | 3:55 | |
| 2. | "Give Me Back the Beat" |
| 3:53 |
| 3. | "Oh My Lord" |
| 5:32 |
| 4. | "Hard to Be True" |
| 3:27 |
| 5. | "Some People" |
| 3:17 |
| 6. | "Wrong All the Time" |
| 3:30 |
| 7. | "Don't Hang Up" (featuring Chrissie Hynde) |
| 3:27 |
| 8. | "Choose Love" |
| 3:07 |
| 9. | "Me and You" |
| 2:15 |
| 10. | "Satisfied" |
| 3:19 |
| 11. | "The Turnaround" |
| 3:54 |
| 12. | "Free Drinks" |
| 4:45 |
Personnel
[edit]Personnel per booklet.[8]
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Charts
[edit]| Chart (2005) | Peak position |
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| US Independent Albums (Billboard)[9] | 29 |
References
[edit]- Footnotes
- Citations
- ↑ Jackson, Andrew Grant (2012). Still the Greatest: The Essential Songs of the Beatles' Solo Careers. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press. p. 292. ISBN 978-0-8108-8223-2.
- ↑ Choose Love at AllMusic
- ↑ Larkin, Colin (2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th edn). London: Omnibus Press. p. 1984. ISBN 978-0-85712-595-8.
- ↑ "Ringo Starr – Choose Love". entertainment.ie. 28 July 2005. Retrieved 22 November 2014.
- ↑ Strong, Martin C. (2006). The Essential Rock Discography. Edinburgh, UK: Canongate. p. 1028. ISBN 978-1-84195-827-9.
- ↑ Metzger, John. "Ringo Starr – Choose Love (Album Review)". Musicbox-online.com.
- ↑ "New CD Releases". Star-News. 9 June 2005. Retrieved 2 January 2016.
- ↑ Choose Love (Booklet). Ringo Starr. Koch, Koch Entertainment LP. 2005. KOC-CD-9919, KOC-CD-9950.
{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link) - ↑ "Ringo Starr Chart History (Independent Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved July 26, 2025.
External links
[edit]- Choose Love at Discogs (list of releases)
