Label: Epic Records (U.S.), EK 35378
Style: Rock, Pop
Country: Liverpool, England (7 July 1940)
Time: 34:27
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 210 Mb
After the critical and commercial disaster of Ringo the 4th (1977), Starr and his musical partner, Vini Poncia, decided to create a less campy album and streamline the sound to lose the disco qualities and excesses that marred the previous release. With Poncia taking the production reins, Starr mostly relies on other people's songs. In November 1977, the album was recorded, for tax purposes, at Can-Base Studio in Vancouver, Toronto, and Elite Recording Studio in The Bahamas. It was completed within ten days of sessions in November 1977, with the exception of some orchestral overdubs done on 8 March 1978 under the direction of James Newton Howard.
Bad Boy was released on 21 April 1978 in the UK, while in the US it was released on 16 June. Bad Boy reached only number 129 in the US, despite the airing of a prime time TV special entitled Ringo, on 26 April. The special was recorded for 10 days from 11 February in Hollywood. The special had an airing in the UK on 2 January 1983. The album's inner sleeve featured photographs by his then-fiancee Nancy Andrews. From the album, Starr played "Heart on My Sleeve", "Hard Times" and "A Man Like Me" on the TV special. Polydor, after three consecutive non-charters in the UK, promptly dropped Starr, while his new US label, Portrait (who picked him up after Atlantic had dropped him) would eventually cancel his contract in 1981 during the making of his next album (Stop and Smell the Roses).
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Boy_(Ringo_Starr_album))
01. Who Needs A Heart (03:50)
02. Bad Boy (03:16)
03. Lipstick Traces (03:03)
04. Heart On My Sleeve (03:22)
05. Where Did Our Love Go (03:17)
06. Hard Times (03:34)
07. Tonight (02:58)
08. Monkey See -- Monkey Do (03:38)
09. Old Time Relovin' (04:18)
10. A Man Like Me (03:07)
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