Bad Boy (Ringo Starr album)

After Starr's previous album, Ringo the 4th (1977), was not well received critically or commercially, Starr and his musical partner, Vini Poncia, decided to move away from that album's dance-oriented sound and in a more streamlined direction. With Poncia taking over production duties, Starr mostly relied on covering other artists' songs. in Vancouver, Toronto, It was completed within ten days in November 1977, with the exception of some orchestral overdubs done on 8 March 1978 under the direction of James Newton Howard. ==Release and reception==

The album's first single in the US, "Lipstick Traces (On a Cigarette)", was released by Portrait on 18 April 1978, with "Old Time Relovin'" as the B-side, The album only reached number 129 in the US, despite the airing of a prime time TV special entitled Ringo, and finished in 53rd place out of 65 network prime-time programs during the week it aired. Starr performed three songs from Bad Boy in the special: "Heart on My Sleeve", "Hard Times" and "A Man Like Me". A second US single, "Heart on My Sleeve" backed with "Who Needs a Heart", was released on 6 July. In the UK, the lone single was "Tonight", backed with "Heart on My Sleeve", on 21 July, Bad Boy was reissued on CD in the US by Epic ==Track listing==

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'''Ringo's Roadside Attraction''' • Push-a-Lone – lead guitar • Git-tar – rhythm guitar • Hamisch Bissonnette – synthesizers • Diesel – bass guitar • Morris Lane – keyboards • Ringo Starr – lead vocals, drums • Featuring Vini Poncia's Peaking Duck Orchestra & Chorus Uncredited • Tom Saviano – saxophone • Brie Howard – background vocals • Jean Marie Arnold – background vocals Technical • Vini Poncia – producer • Bob Schaper – engineer • Ron Hitchcock – mastering (at The Mastering Lab, Hollywood, CA) • Richard Starkey – associate producer, back cover photography • Tom of the North – horn arrangements • Doug Riley – string arrangements, conductor (tracks 5, 10) • James Newton Howard – string arrangements, conductor (tracks 4, 7) • Annie Streer – production coordinator • Nancy Lee Andrews – front cover photography • Kosh – design ==Charts==