Starr Struck: Best of Ringo Starr, Vol. 2 Starr Struck: Best of Ringo Starr, Vol. 2 Starr Struck: Best of Ringo Starr, Vol. 2 is Ringo Starr's second official compilation album, released on Rhino. The successor to 1975's "Blast from Your Past", it rounds up Starr's highlights from 1976's "Ringo's Rotogravure" to 1983's "Old Wave" and encompasses label stays with Polydor, Atlantic, Portrait, and RCA. Consequently, it saw the first release of four tracks from "Old Wave" which had not been issued in the U.S. up to that time. The CD edition features four additional tracks that were not present on the vinyl edition: "Attention", "Who Needs a
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