Time Takes Time

In February 1987, Starr started work on his first new studio album in four years. Sessions began with producer Chips Moman in 3 Alarm Studios in Memphis, Tennessee.{{cite book|editor1=Miles, Barry |editor2=Badman, Keith |title=The Beatles Diary After the Break-Up: 1970–2001 |year=2001 |publisher=Music Sales Group |location=London |isbn=9780711983076 |edition=reprint}}{{cite book|last=Harry |first=Bill |title=The Ringo Starr Encyclopedia |year=2004 |publisher=Virgin Books |location=London |isbn=9780753508435 |page=247}} These sessions lasted for a few days then came to a halt before being resumed in April, with recording taking place at 3 Alarm Studios and Sun Studios.{{#tag:ref|Among the total of 16 songs recorded, some include: "Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day", "Some Kind of Wonderful", "Beat Patrol", "Ain't That a Shame", "Whiskey and Cola", and "I Can Help".|group="nb"}} A month-long string of recording sessions were planned in August, for recording at Mayfair Recording Studios in London, before being halted shortly before recording had begun. These sessions were to have been handled by Elton John's manager, John Reid, and were intended to feature John. While on tour in July 1989 with the All-Starr Band, Starr was told that Moman was attempting to release the Memphis sessions as an album;{{cite book|last=Harry |first=Bill |title=The Ringo Starr Encyclopedia |year=2004 |publisher=Virgin Books |location=London |isbn=9780753508435 |page=248}} Starr proceeded to sue Moman in August. An injunction was issued by the Fulton County Superior Courts to Starr in early January 1990, where he was to pay out costs of the sessions to Moman. It was announced at a National Association of Radio Merchandisers (NARM) convention{{cite book|last=Harry |first=Bill |title=The Ringo Starr Encyclopedia |year=2004 |publisher=Virgin Books |location=London |isbn=9780753508435 |page=272}} that Starr signed a recording contract with Private Music in March 1991, who seemed to be the only label interested in him at the time.

Starr had initially intended to try out four producers, and select the best to record the whole album with: '...because it's been so long for me that I didn't really know any producers I wanted to go with for the whole record. So I figured I'd try a few people.' Aligning himself with top producers Don Was, Peter Asher, Phil Ramone and Jeff Lynne, the album was recorded sporadically between March and September 1991, and finished in February 1992. Jim Horn, who plays all the saxophone parts on the album, had previously worked on Starr's Ringo (1973).{{cite book|last=Harry |first=Bill |title=The Ringo Starr Encyclopedia |year=2004 |publisher=Virgin Books |location=London |isbn=9780753508435 |page=216}} The material was written predominantly by outside writers, with Starr co-writing three songs. Time Takes Time also marked Starr's first alliance with Mark Hudson, who assisted with the background vocals and arrangements on some of the Ramone-produced tracks.{{#tag:ref|Starr and Hudson would later work together on Vertical Man (1998), VH1 Storytellers (1998), I Wanna Be Santa Claus (1999), and Ringo Rama (2003), among other albums.|group="nb"}}

In April 1991, Starr recorded with fellow label artist, Taj Mahal, on his album. Lynne and Starr recorded four songs between 20 and 31 May: "Don't Go Where the Road Don't Go", "After All These Years", "Don't Be Cruel", and "Call Me".{{cite web|last=Porter |first=Robert |url=http://www.jefflynnesongs.com/jlworks9.php |title=Jeff Lynne Song Database – 1990s Songs |publisher=Jefflynnesongs.com |access-date=28 February 2013}} Scroll down to the section header Miscellaneous production sessions 1991 & 1992 click Don't Go Where The Road Don't Go then click Single/Album Version. Lynne later remixed "Don't Go Where the Road Don't Go" at Ocean Way Studios. Starr contributed the song "You'll Never Know", recorded on 14 September at the tail-end of the album sessions, to the soundtrack of the film Curly Sue. "Weight of the World" was recorded in February 1992 in Los Angeles. Starr recorded "Runaways" and "All in the Name of Love", the latter written by Jerry Lynn Williams, with Ramone.{{cite book|last=Harry |first=Bill |title=The Ringo Starr Encyclopedia |year=2004 |publisher=Virgin Books |location=London |isbn=9780753508435 |page=335}} With Asher, Starr recorded "Thank You for Being a Friend", written by Andrew Gold, The Posies' "Golden Blunders", and a McCartney–Starr song, "Angel in Disguise". Was' sessions were backed by a core group of musicians who he works with frequently featuring: Benmont Tench on keyboard, longtime Bonnie Raitt bassist James "Hutch" Hutchinson and Mark Goldenberg on guitar. With Was, Starr recorded the Diane Warren–written song "In a Heartbeat", "What Goes Around" written by Rick Suchow, and "Weight of the World", featuring Brian Wilson, and Jellyfish, on backing vocals respectively. Andy Sturmer and Roger Manning of Jellyfish also contributed the song "I Don't Believe You" and sang backing vocals on an arrangement basically mirroring their own version of the song.

Several tracks were left off the album.Clayson, Alan "Ringo Starr: Straight Man Or Joker", Sanctuary Publishing, Ltd. 1998 p.334 The primarily McCartney-penned song "Angel in Disguise", to which Starr added a verse, has never been released.{{#tag:ref|Being interviewed by a Toronto Sun reporter on 25 October, McCartney said that 'Ringo wanted an extra verse, so I said, 'Let's write the extra verse together. Or you can just write it and we'll have co-written the song.' I understand he has written a third verse. If it's another "With A Little Help From My Friends", great, if it isn't, great!'|group="nb"}} Starr covered "Don't Be Cruel",{{cite book|last=Harry |first=Bill |title=The Ringo Starr Encyclopedia |year=2004 |publisher=Virgin Books |location=London |isbn=9780753508435 |page=186}} and it was issued as the B-side of the CD single "Weight of the World"{{cite web|last=Porter |first=Robert |url=http://www.jefflynnesongs.com/jlworks9.php |title=Jeff Lynne Song Database – 1990s Songs |publisher=Jefflynnesongs.com |access-date=28 February 2013}} Scroll down to the section header Miscellaneous production sessions 1991 & 1992 click After All These Years then click Album Version. and included on the Japanese edition of the album.{{cite book|last=Harry |first=Bill |title=The Ringo Starr Encyclopedia |year=2004 |publisher=Virgin Books |location=London |isbn=9780753508435 |page=187}} Another outtake, "Everybody Wins", was issued in Germany as the B-side of the "Don't Go Where the Road Don't Go" single. Three more outtakes that were never released were "Thank You for Being a Friend", the Ramone-produced "Love Is Going to Get You",{{#tag:ref|Ramone commented that the song was "great [...] but it did not fit with the character of the songs he did" so far.|group="nb"}}{{cite book|last=Harry |first=Bill |title=The Ringo Starr Encyclopedia |year=2004 |publisher=Virgin Books |location=London |isbn=9780753508435 |page=275}} and the Lynne-produced "Call Me". Lynne has said that "Call Me" would never be released,{{cite web|last=Porter |first=Robert |url=http://www.jefflynnesongs.com/jlworks9.php |title=Jeff Lynne Song Database – 1990s Songs |publisher=Jefflynnesongs.com |access-date=28 February 2013}} Scroll down to the section header Miscellaneous production sessions 1991 & 1992 click Call Me then click Unreleased Studio Recording. which Tom Petty appears on. Although Starr had recorded and released another song entitled "Call Me" as far back as 1974, it bore no resemblance to the Lynne-produced number.

Starr announced the album, the lead single, "Weight of the World", and an All-Starr tour, on 28 February 1992.{{cite book|last=Harry |first=Bill |title=The Ringo Starr Encyclopedia |year=2004 |publisher=Virgin Books |location=London |isbn=9780753508435 |page=141}} On 2 April, Starr held a press conference restating the information in addition to tour dates at Radio City Music Hall in New York. In the days following 3 April, Starr made television appearances and appeared on radio broadcasts to promote the album and tour. On the same day, promotional copies of "Weight of the World" were sent to radio stations in the US. Filming for a music video for "Weight of the World" began on 16 May, and finished the day after.{{cite book|last=Harry |first=Bill |title=The Ringo Starr Encyclopedia |year=2004 |publisher=Virgin Books |location=London |isbn=9780753508435 |page=142}} CNN broadcast a behind-the-scenes report on making the video on 18 May. Starr and his All-Starr band appeared on the TV show Arsenio, with a performance to promote the single. The single "Weight of the World" was released on 28 April in the US,{{#tag:ref|US Private Music 01005-81003-2{{cite book|last=Harry |first=Bill |title=The Ringo Starr Encyclopedia |year=2004 |publisher=Virgin Books |location=London |isbn=9780753508435 |page=184}}|group="nb"}} and on 18 May in the UK.{{#tag:ref|7": UK Private Music 115,392; CD: UK Private Music 665,392{{cite book|last=Harry |first=Bill |title=The Ringo Starr Encyclopedia |year=2004 |publisher=Virgin Books |location=London |isbn=9780753508435 |page=183}}|group="nb"}}{{cite book|last=Harry |first=Bill |title=The Ringo Starr Encyclopedia |year=2004 |publisher=Virgin Books |location=London |isbn=9780753508435 |pages=183, 184}}

Time Takes Time was released in the US on 22 May,{{#tag:ref|US Private Music 01005-82097-2|group="nb"}} and in the UK on 29 June, by Private Music.{{#tag:ref|UK Private Music 262 902{{cite book|last=Harry |first=Bill |title=The Ringo Starr Encyclopedia |year=2004 |publisher=Virgin Books |location=London |isbn=9780753508435 |page=334}}|group="nb"}}{{cite book|last=Harry |first=Bill |title=The Ringo Starr Encyclopedia |year=2004 |publisher=Virgin Books |location=London |isbn=9780753508435 |page=185}} Starr commented that he had not 'been this happy with an album since Ringo in 1973. It's time I stretched.' However, the album failed to chart. While a planned single release on 3 July in the US of "Don't Go Where the Road Don't Go", backed with "Everyone Wins", was shelved,{{cite book|last=Harry |first=Bill |title=The Ringo Starr Encyclopedia |year=2004 |publisher=Virgin Books |location=London |isbn=9780753508435 |page=143}} a CD edition of the single managed to get released in Germany on 21 September.{{#tag:ref|"Everyone Wins" was mistitled as "Everybody Wins".|group="nb"}} The 7" vinyl edition of the single was also released in Germany and had "Don't Know a Thing About Love" as the B-side, released on the same day.{{#tag:ref|CD: Germany Private Music 74321 11369 2; 7" vinyl: Germany Private Music 74321 11369 7|group="nb"}} Starr again appeared on Arsenio on 21 October, being interviewed and then performing "Don't Go Where the Road Don't Go" and "Act Naturally".{{cite book|last=Harry |first=Bill |title=The Ringo Starr Encyclopedia |year=2004 |publisher=Virgin Books |location=London |isbn=9780753508435 |page=146}} Times Takes Time was released on vinyl only in Mexico, Brazil, Spain and Germany.{{#tag:ref|Starr's following albums weren't released on vinyl until Y Not (2010).|group="nb"}} Despite an All-Starr tour in 1992 to promote the album, Time Takes Time would be Starr's only release with Private Music before he was dropped from their roster.

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|rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r18909}}

| rev2 = Encyclopedia of Popular Music

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| rev3 = The Essential Rock Discography

| rev3Score = 6/10{{cite book|author=Strong, Martin C. |year=2006|title=The Essential Rock Discography|publisher=Canongate|location=Edinburgh, UK|page=1028|isbn=978-184195-827-9}}

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The album received mixed reviews upon release, although one critic considered Time Takes Time to be Starr's best album since 1973's Ringo: Rolling Stone magazine wrote, "The drummer's most consistent, wide-awake album since Ringo, from 1973".

The release failed to chart in either the UK or USA. Lead single "Weight of the World" managed to reach No. 74 in the UK charts.{{cite web|last=Calkin |first=Graham |url=http://www.jpgr.co.uk/pm115392.html |title=Ringo Starr – Weight of the World |publisher=Jpgr.co.uk |access-date=9 February 2013}}

{{Track listing

| extra_column = Producer

| title1 = Weight of the World

| length1 = 3:54

| writer1 = Brian O'Doherty, Fred Velez

| extra1 = Don Was

| title2 = Don't Know a Thing About Love

| length2 = 3:49

| writer2 = Richard Feldman, Stan Lynch

| extra2 = Was

| title3 = Don't Go Where the Road Don't Go

| length3 = 3:20

| writer3 = Richard Starkey, Johnny Warman, Gary Grainger

| extra3 = Jeff Lynne

| title4 = Golden Blunders

| length4 = 4:06

| writer4 = Jonathan Auer, Kenneth Stringfellow

| extra4 = Peter Asher

| title5 = All in the Name of Love

| length5 = 3:42

| writer5 = Jerry Lynn Williams

| extra5 = Phil Ramone

| title6 = After All These Years

| length6 = 3:10

| writer6 = Starkey, Warman

| extra6 = Lynne

| title7 = I Don't Believe You

| length7 = 2:48

| writer7 = Andy Sturmer, Roger Manning

| extra7 = Was

| title8 = Runaways

| length8 = 4:51

| writer8 = Starkey, Warman

| extra8 = Ramone

| title9 = In a Heartbeat

| length9 = 4:29

| writer9 = Diane Warren

| extra9 = Was

| title10 = What Goes Around

| length10 = 5:50

| writer10 = Rick Suchow

| extra10 = Was

}}

{{Track listing

| headline = Japanese edition bonus track

| extra_column = Producer(s)

| title11 = Don't Be Cruel

| length11 = 2:08

| writer11 = Otis Blackwell, Elvis Presley

| extra11 = Lynne

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Personnel per booklet.{{cite AV media notes|title=Time Takes Time |others=Ringo Starr |year=1992 |type=Booklet |publisher=Private Music |id=262902}}

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• Ringo Starr – lead vocals, drums, percussion
• Jeff Lynne – guitar, bass, piano, keyboards, backing vocals (tracks 3 and 6)
• Mark Goldenberg – guitar (tracks 1, 2 and 9)
• Waddy Wachtel – guitar (track 4)
• Andrew Gold – acoustic guitar, guitar (solo), backing vocals (track 4)
• Roger Manning – acoustic guitar, backing vocals (track 7)
• Andy Sturmer – acoustic guitar, backing vocals (track 7)
• Michael Landau – guitar (tracks 7, 9 and 10)
• David Grissom – acoustic guitar (tracks 7 and 10)
• Michael Thompson – guitar (tracks 5 and 8)
• Jeff Baxter – guitar (tracks 5 and 8)
• Mark Hart – keyboards, [Additional Synth Guitar], backing vocals (track 5)
• Benmont Tench – keyboards (tracks 1 and 2), piano, Hammond organ (tracks 7 and 10); Hammond, harmonium (track 9)
• Robbie Buchanan – keyboards (tracks 4 and 9)
• Jeffrey Vanston – keyboards (tracks 5 and 8)
• Jamie Muhoberac – keyboards (track 9)
• James "Hutch" Hutchinson – bass (tracks 1, 2, 7, 9 and 10)
• Bob Glaub – bass (track 4)
• Neil Stubenhaus – bass (tracks 5 and 8)
• Peter Asher – tambourine, backing vocals (track 4)
• Mark Hudson – percussion, backing vocals
• Jim Horn – saxophone (track 3)

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• Suzie Katayama – cello (track 3)
• Raven Kane – backing vocals
• Rosemary Butler – backing vocals
• Valerie Carter – backing vocals
• Terri Wood – backing vocals
• Carmen Twillie – backing vocals
• Wendy Fraser – backing vocals
• Stephanie Spruill – backing vocals
• Andrea Robinson – backing vocals
• Bobbi Page – backing vocals
• Doug Fieger – backing vocals
• Berton Averre – backing vocals
• Mark Hart – backing vocals
• Craig Copeland – backing vocals
• Naomi Star – backing vocals
• Darlene Koldenhoven – backing vocals
• Harry Nilsson – vocals (track 8)
• Kathryn Cotter – backing vocals
• Mark Warman – backing vocals
• Brian Wilson – backing vocals
• Brian O'Doherty – backing vocals

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; Citations

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• {{Discogs master|type=album|79312|name=Time Takes Time}}
• [http://www.jpgr.co.uk/pm262902.html Summary of Time Takes Time] from "Complete U.K. Discography of John, Paul, George and Ringo"

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