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
Photograph: The Very Best of Ringo Starr Photograph: The Very Best of Ringo Starr Photograph: The Very Best of Ringo Starr (the last word visually rendered as ) is a career-spanning best-of compilation album by Ringo Starr and is the first such album since the releases of 1975's "Blast from Your Past" and 1989's "". The release of the new collection coincided with the reissue of Starr's first four solo albums for EMI, in digital format, on 28 August 2007. The tracks from 70's and 80' presented on the compilation featured updated mixes of the songs in comparison to the Starr's 90's CD reissues of his earlier