The Other Side of Liverpool

Album: Y Not (2010)
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  • This song continues a tradition begun on the title track of his 2008 solo album, Liverpool 8, in which Ringo and the Eurhythmics Dave Stewart pen an autobiographical song about the former Beatle's early life. Starr explained to Billboard magazine that it part of a plan "to do a mini-biography on every CD from now on. It's not like a book where you can write forever; you sort of encapsulate certain moments of your life."
  • This track portrays Starr's rocky upbringing in a lower-working-class household: "It was a tough, violent neighborhood," Starr recalled to USA Today, "If you fell over in the street as a kid, everyone in that street was your mother and would come out and look after you. It's like fantasy now. But the thing I wrote this song for is that people believe I was born, joined The Beatles and then lived in a mansion."
  • Ringo Starr said in a January 2010 radio interview that he's not knocking the legendary seaport town in this song - he's just telling it like it is: "I just has the words and the melody to 'the other side of Liverpool is cold and damp, the only way out drums, guitar, and an amp' which was a saying we all had in those days. And it was cold, and it was damp, and it is a port. I have a plan now - whether it works out, I don't know - to do a mini-biography on every CD from now on. You can only pick Moments in your life when you're doing it on a record. It's not like a book when you can write forever. And you sort of encapsulate certain moments in your life, and that's what I believe 'The Other Side Of Liverpool' has done." >>>
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