Artist: Ringo Starr Review: At 69, Beatles drummer Ringo Starr is as doggedly good-natured as ever. His 16th studio album, Y Not — recorded with a cast of all-stars including Paul McCartney and Joss Stone — is full of straightforward, sweetly melodic tunes, most of them about Starr's abiding optimism, such as "Time." The exception here is "The Other Side of Liverpool," a dark rocker in which Starr opens up about his rocky childhood ("At the age of three, my father was gone"). Otherwise, warmth and whiffs of... Rating: 3 Stars

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