Ringo Ashamed of Album (1991)

Chip Moman and Ringo recording a song from the unreleased album 

 Who has heard the unreleased Ringo album from 1987?  I have it on a bootleg, and I have never thought it was THAT bad.  I like his cover of the song "I Can Help."    It isn't the best album of all time, and I don't think Ringo is playing drums on it (which seems strange), but really, it could have been released, and it wouldn't have been an embarrassment -- but Ringo didn't think so.  Perhaps he was embarrassed by his memories of the sessions with everyone being drunk and whatnot more than the actual music that was made. 

Ringo Ashamed of Album

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June 9, 1991

        Ringo Starr was taken to court last week by a record producer over an "embarrassing" album the ex-Beatle recorded when he was high on drink and drugs. 

    Record producer Chips  Moman was last year awarded $74,000 for the collapse of an album deal after Starr blocked the release of the record, but last week Moman went back to the Georgia Supreme Court to fight for more money. 

    Starr's lawyers said Moman had already received a fair settlement, and the case was adjourned. Starr recorded the solo album in 1987 when he was addicted to alcohol and drugs. He said other musicians used on the album were often drunk in the studio. 

    In 1989, a court judge permanently barred the release of the album, which Starr said would be a "professional embarrassment to him." Starr was given custody of the tapes.

     Star, 50, and his wife, Barbara Bach, 40, spent five weeks in an alcohol treatment center in Arizona in 1988, and the following year, he made a successful comeback tour of the US.