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Bad Boy (Ringo Starr album)

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1978 studio album by Ringo Starr
Bad Boy
Studio album by
Released21 April 1978 (1978-04-21)
RecordedNovember 1977
Studio
  • Elite, Bahamas
  • Can-Base, Vancouver
  • Soundstage, Toronto
GenreRock
Length34:27
LabelPolydor
ProducerVini Poncia
Ringo Starr chronology
Ringo the 4th
(1977)		Bad Boy
(1978)		Stop and Smell the Roses
(1981)
Singles from Bad Boy
  1. "Lipstick Traces (On a Cigarette)"
    Released: 18 April 1978 (US)
  2. "Heart on My Sleeve"
    Released: 6 July 1978 (US)
  3. "Tonight"
    Released: 21 July 1978 (UK)

Bad Boy is the seventh studio album by the English rock musicianRingo Starr, released in 1978 byPolydor Records. The album was released at a time of diminishing success for Starr, failing to chart in the UK and reaching only No. 129 in the US and No. 98 in Australia, with none of its singles charting in either the UK or US. Prior to its release in the US, it was cross-promoted with the TV specialRingo, which was poorly received, and a planned follow-up special never came to fruition.Bad Boy would ultimately be Starr's final album release for Polydor.

Background and recording

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After Starr's previous album,Ringo the 4th (1977), was not well received critically or commercially, Starr and his musical partner,Vini Poncia, decided to move away from that album's dance-oriented sound and in a more streamlined direction.[1] With Poncia taking over production duties, Starr mostly relied on covering other artists' songs.[1] In November 1977, the album was recorded, for tax purposes,[1] at Can-Base Studio[2] in Vancouver, Toronto,[1] and Elite Recording Studio in the Bahamas.[1][2] It was completed within ten days in November 1977, with the exception of some orchestral overdubs done on 8 March 1978 under the direction ofJames Newton Howard.[1]

Release and reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusicStarStar[3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular MusicStarStar[4]
The Essential Rock Discography4/10[5]
Galeria MusicalStarStarStar[6]
MusicHound RockStarHalf star[7]
Rolling Stone(not rated)[8]
The Rolling Stone Album GuideStarStar[9]

The album's first single in the US, "Lipstick Traces (On a Cigarette)", was released byPortrait on 18 April 1978, with "Old Time Relovin'" as the B-side,[nb 1][11][12] preceding the album's US release date.[12] A planned release of the single in the UK, for issue in June byPolydor, was shelved.[nb 2][11]

Bad Boy was released on 21 April 1978 in the UK,[nb 3] while in the US it was released on 16 June.[nb 4][13] The album only reached number 129 in the US, despite the airing of a prime time TV special entitledRingo,[11] on 26 April.[12] The special was recorded in 10 days in Hollywood, starting on 11 February,[12] and finished in 53rd place out of 65 network prime-time programs during the week it aired.[14] Starr performed three songs fromBad Boy in the special: "Heart on My Sleeve", "Hard Times" and "A Man Like Me".[11] It would air in the UK, on 2 January 1983.[11][15]

A second US single, "Heart on My Sleeve" backed with "Who Needs a Heart", was released on 6 July.[nb 5][11][16] Out of the singles released fromBad Boy in the US, neither "Lipstick Traces (On a Cigarette)"[10] nor "Heart on My Sleeve" charted.[16] In the UK, the lone single was "Tonight", backed with "Heart on My Sleeve", on 21 July,[11] which also failed to chart.[nb 6] On the same day, production began on another special to promote the album,[12] directed by Christian Topps,[11] but the special was never completed.[12] "A Man Like Me" is simplyScouse the Mouse's "A Mouse Like Me", with all appearances of the word "Mouse" in the lyrics changed to "Man".

Polydor, after three consecutive non-charters in the UK, promptly dropped Starr, while his new US label, Portrait (who had picked him up afterAtlantic had dropped him),[2] would cancel his contract in 1981 during the making of his next album,Stop and Smell the Roses.

The album's inner sleeve featured photographs by Starr's then-fiancéeNancy Andrews.[2][17]Bad Boy was reissued on CD in the US byEpic[2] on 26 March 1991.[nb 7][18]

Track listing

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Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Who Needs a Heart"3:48
2."Bad Boy"3:14
3."Lipstick Traces"Naomi Neville3:14
4."Heart on My Sleeve"3:20
5."Where Did Our Love Go"3:15
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Hard Times"Peter Skellern3:31
2."Tonight"2:56
3."Monkey See – Monkey Do"Michael Franks3:36
4."Old Time Relovin'"
  • Starkey
  • Poncia
4:16
5."A Man Like Me"Ruan O'Lochlainn; adapted byDonald Pleasence3:08

Personnel

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Musicians

Technical

  • Vini Poncia – producer
  • Bob Schaper – engineer
  • Richard Starkey – associate producer, back cover photography
  • Tom Scott – horn arrangements
  • Doug Riley – string arrangements, conductor
  • Nancy Lee Andrews – front cover photography
  • Kosh – design

Charts

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Chart (1978)Peak
position
Australian Albums (Kent Music Report)[19]98
USBillboard 200[20]129

References

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Footnotes

  1. ^US Portrait 6-70015[10]
  2. ^UK Polydor 2001-782[11]
  3. ^UK Polydor 2310 599[2]
  4. ^US Portrait JR-353778[2]
  5. ^US Portrait 6-70018[16]
  6. ^UK Polydor 2001 795[16]
  7. ^US Epic EK 35378[2]

Citations

  1. ^abcdefMadinger, Chip; Easter, Mark (2000).Eight Arms to Hold You: The Solo Beatles Compendium. Chesterfield, MO: 44.1 Productions. p. 514.
  2. ^abcdefghHarry, Bill (2004).The Ringo Starr Encyclopedia. London: Virgin Books. p. 14.ISBN 978-0-7535-0843-5.
  3. ^Ruhlmann, William."Bad Boy – Ringo Starr".AllMusic. Archived fromthe original on 28 April 2021. Retrieved14 May 2021.
  4. ^Larkin, Colin (2011).The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th edn). London: Omnibus Press. p. 1984.ISBN 978-0-85712-595-8.
  5. ^Strong, Martin C. (2006).The Essential Rock Discography. Edinburgh, UK: Canongate. p. 1028.ISBN 978-1-84195-827-9.
  6. ^Galeria Musical review (in Portuguese).
  7. ^Gary Graff & Daniel Durchholz (eds),MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide, Visible Ink Press (Farmington Hills, MI, 1999;ISBN 1-57859-061-2), p. 1083.
  8. ^Rolling Stone review
  9. ^Brackett, Nathan, with Hoard, Christian (eds) (2004).The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th edn). New York, NY: Fireside. p. 777.ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
  10. ^abHarry, Bill (2004).The Ringo Starr Encyclopedia. London: Virgin Books. p. 235.ISBN 978-0-7535-0843-5.
  11. ^abcdefghiMiles, Barry; Badman, Keith, eds. (2001).The Beatles Diary After the Break-Up: 1970–2001 (reprint ed.). London: Music Sales Group.ISBN 978-0-7119-8307-6.
  12. ^abcdefHarry, Bill (2004).The Ringo Starr Encyclopedia. London: Virgin Books. p. 124.ISBN 978-0-7535-0843-5.
  13. ^Harry, Bill (2004).The Ringo Starr Encyclopedia. London: Virgin Books. pp. 184, 185.ISBN 978-0-7535-0843-5.
  14. ^Rees, Dafydd; Crampton, Luke (1999).VH1 Rock Stars Encyclopedia (New Revised ed.). New York: DK Publishing, Inc. p. 949.ISBN 0-7894-4613-8.
  15. ^Harry, Bill (2004).The Ringo Starr Encyclopedia. London: Virgin Books. p. 129.ISBN 978-0-7535-0843-5.
  16. ^abcdHarry, Bill (2004).The Ringo Starr Encyclopedia. London: Virgin Books. p. 213.ISBN 978-0-7535-0843-5.
  17. ^Harry, Bill (2004).The Ringo Starr Encyclopedia. London: Virgin Books. p. 9.ISBN 978-0-7535-0843-5.
  18. ^Harry, Bill (2004).The Ringo Starr Encyclopedia. London: Virgin Books. p. 141.ISBN 978-0-7535-0843-5.
  19. ^Kent, David (1993).Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book.ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  20. ^"Ringo Starr Chart History (Billboard 200)".Billboard. Retrieved July 26, 2025.

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