Ringo Starr has collaborated with Sir Paul McCartney on his new record

The former Beatles drummer, 83, is bringing out ‘Rewind Forward’ on 13 October, with the first single from the four-track EP coming out on Friday. 

It also features the track ‘Feeling the Sunlight’, recorded in the UK with 81-year-old Beatles icon Sir Paul.

Ringo said about the EP’s title, which is also the name of the first single coming out from the EP:

“Rewind Forward was something I said out of the blue – it’s just one of those lines like a ‘Hard Day’s Night’.

“It just came to me. But it doesn’t really make sense. I was trying to explain it to myself and the best I can tell you about what it means is: sometimes when you want to go forward you have to go back first.”

The song was written with Ringo’s engineer and regular co-writer Bruce Sugar, and the drummer added about their collaboration: “We’ve been writing a song now for every EP.”

The EP will also feature the tracks ‘Shadows on the Wall’ and ‘Miss Jean’.

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The tracks saw Ringo collaborating with other “old and new friends”, including long-time collaborators Steve Lukather and Joe Williams who wrote the opening song ‘Shadows on the Wall’.

Benmont Tench, Mike Campbell and Ian Hunter worked on ‘Miss Jean’, and the EP also features contributions from Joe Walsh, Steve Dudas, and Lance Morrison as well as Matt Bissonnette, Torrance Klein, Weston Wilson, Kip Lennon and Marky Lennon.

All songs were recorded at Ringo’s home studio in Los Angeles except ‘Feeling the Sunlight’, which was largely recorded in Britain.

The new EP is the first fresh material Ringo has put out since his previous EPs ‘Zoom in, Change the World’, and ‘EP3’, which came out in September last year.

Ringo and Paul recently teamed up with Dolly Parton for a cover of 'Let It Be', released as a single ahead of Dolly's upcoming rock album Rockstar.

- Bang! Showbiz republished here with edits and permission

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