Shannon, who has been dubbed as 'The Greatest Beatles Artist in the World' has had her work approved by Paul, George and Ringo to do over 120 illustrations for the first ever Beatle Hotel, appropriately called 'A Hard Day's Night'. Work on the new hotel is being carried out by Central Buildings Development Liverpool Ltd. Shannon has also done paintings for MGM, Disney, Universal, Trump Casinos.  Her celebrity clients have included: Sylvester Stallone, Billy Idol, Van Halen, No Doubt and Cheap Trick.  This painting used with permission from Shannon with our thanks!

RINGO STARR'S U.K. SINGLES DISCOGRAPHY
Compiled by John Whelan
July 1999

Ringo Starr probably has had one of the most interesting early solo music careers of all the Beatles. In England, he released "It Don't Come Easy" which peaked at #4 during April 1971. Then in March of 1972, Ringo issued "Back Off Boogaloo" which hit the number #2 spot on the music charts. His next release was "Photograph" and this song had a slow climb up the charts where it finally peaked at #8th position in November of 1973. The ever popular Johnny Burnette number, "You're Sixteen" (which Ringo recorded), managed to peak to #4 in February of 1974. After that, a few more hits flowed from Ringo which caused a somewhat jealous but very amused John Lennon to send off a telegram to Ringo: "CONGRATULATIONS. HOW DARE YOU? AND PLEASE WRITE ME A HIT SONG!* " (up until that point, John's last gold record occurred with IMAGINE in 1971 in the United States of America).

By 1976, Ringo's luck started to run out and most of his singles really didn't make much of a dent in the music charts. However, our brave back-beat drummer has managed a big comeback as of late: "Vertical Man" (on Mercury Records, 1998) contains a plethora of excellent songs composed by Ringo with Mark Hudson & company. One of the tracks from that album resulting in much radio air play was the hit song "La De Da!"

*Source of quote: THE BEATLES FOREVER by Nicholas Schaffner, published by McGraw-Hill

RINGO STARR'S SOLO SINGLES

IT DON'T COME EASY / EARLY 1970
[Apple/Parlophone R 5898] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . April 9, 1971

BACK OFF BOOGALOO / BLINDMAN
[Apple/Parlophone R 5944]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . March 17, 1972

PHOTOGRAPH / DOWN AND OUT
[Apple/Parlophone R 5992]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . October 19, 1973

YOU'RE SIXTEEN / DEVIL WOMAN
[Apple/Parlophone R 5995]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . February 8, 1974

ONLY YOU / CALL ME
[Apple/Parlophone R 6000]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . November 15, 1974

SNOOKEROO / OO-WEE
[Apple/Parlophone R 6004]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . February 21, 1975

OH MY MY / NO NO SONG
[Apple/Parlophone R 6011]. . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . January 9, 1976

A DOSE OF ROCK N' ROLL / CRYIN'
[Polydor 2001 694] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . October 15, 1976

HEY BABY / LADY GAYE
[Polydor 2001 699] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . November 26, 1976

DROWNING IN THE SEA OF LOVE / JUST A DREAM
[Polydor 2001 734] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . September 16, 1977

TONIGHT / OLD TIME RELOVIN'
[Polydor 2001 795] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . July 21, 1978

WRACK MY BRAIN / DRUMMING IS MY MADNESS
[RCA 166]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . November 13, 1981

WEIGHT OF THE WORLD / AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
[Private Music 115 392]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 18, 1992