The Beatles bootleg recordings at the club. Eventually Taylor sold the tapes, which formed the basis of the double album "Live! at the Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany; 1962", released in 1977 by Lingasong Records. The liner notes for the initial release falsely implied that the recordings had been made in the spring of 1962, prior to the Beatles' EMI contract, on a night when Ringo Starr happened to be sitting in for Pete Best. In commentary for a lawsuit to block the album's release, John Lennon wrote, "the sleeve note, apart from being inaccurate, seems to have been written with a court case in
I Want to Kiss Ringo Goodbye I Want to Kiss Ringo Goodbye "I Want to Kiss Ringo Goodbye" is a 1965 novelty single recorded by English music journalist Penny Valentine at the start of her journalistic career. The song was released in March 1965 at the height of Beatlemania and is about Ringo Starr, the drummer of The Beatles. The song was produced by Chuck Sagle and written by Sagle under the pseudonyms Bob Strong and Carl Stevens. Its B-side was "Show Me the Way to Love You", composed by Doug Goodwin and produced by Sagle. The lyrics are told from the viewpoint of a girl