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Sir Ringo Starr inadvertently has his late Beatles bandmate George Harrison to thank for his new country album.
The Fab Four drummer worked with T Bone Burnett on the LP, titled 'Look Up', with the American musician co-writing and producing the 11 tracks that feature.
Ringo, 84, had known Burnett, 77, for many years, but it was a chance between the pair back in November 2022 at a party to launch Olivia Harrison's book 'Came the Lightening - Twenty Poems for George' at the Sunset Marquis hotel in Los Angeles that inspired them to record together.
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Recalling being at the event to support George's widow Olivia, Ringo said: "We bonded as friends in the ‘70s because I was a resident in LA for a while and I had a lot of parties and any party I had he was there. I did not invite him once!
He would be there and he’d come with one of the band. So he would be there and I got to know him a little bit.
"How this record came about was because Olivia was reading poems for George at the Sun