4: John Paul George Ringo 4: John Paul George Ringo 4: John Paul George Ringo is a digital extended play compilation released on 23 September 2014, as a free download by the iTunes Store. It features one solo song by each former member of the Beatles: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. It is the first official release to bring together their solo material (though two Starr solo albums, "Ringo" and "Ringo's Rotogravure", and the 1996 Carl Perkins album "Go Cat Go!" featured contributions from each of the four). The EP was released to promote the iTunes remastering of several solo albums
Sunshine Life for Me (Sail Away Raymond) Sixteen". In his book "The Beatles Solo on Apple Records", Bruce Spizer describes the first five tracks on "Ringo" as "one of the strongest album sides produced by any ex-Beatle". The album cover consisted of a painting by Tim Bruckner in which Harrison, the four members of the Band and all the other musicians on the recording appear, alongside Starr. The song was published by the Material World Charitable Foundation, which Harrison had set up in April 1973. Comparing "Sunshine Life for Me" with the devout lyrical content of "Living in the Material World", Beatles biographer Nicholas Schaffner opined that