RINGO STARR - Back off Boogaloo - 1977

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anecdote sur BOOGALOO : In a 1977 interview, Starr explained that the phrase "Back Off Boogaloo" was inspired when he and fellow musician and close friend Marc Bolan had dinner one night, and Bolan used the word "boogaloo" multiple times in his sentences. Starr said that after dinner, during a time when he was half awake and half asleep, he had gotten the beat and tune for the song in his head and went to find a tape recorder to record the song but had trouble when all his tape recorders either were broken or had no batteries, adding, "So, I stole batteries from the kids toys and I got the song down."

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  • Does anyone else here Mick Jagger at 2:52?

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  • Too bad we lost Marc Bolan...

  • Inspiration for D'yer Maker Hmmm.... I wonder. Makes up for finding out that prick McCartney played drums on Dear Prudence!

  • I'm sorry Jimmy D from 1978, but if you consider the fact that Marc Bolan (in the dinner above) appeared in a movie with Ringo, and that movie's name was "Born to Boogie", add those details I left out with "boogie too = boogaloo" + Ringo and Essex were in a movie + Essex wrote "Rock On" for their movie, subtract "Rock On" from their movie ("That'll be the Day") and you'll see how Ringo could have figured nobody would catch him dubbing its sped-up tune over some made-up words that sound similar..

  • @isuxkballz "Rock on " is the same as "Back Off Boogaloo"? No way. Rings stole nothing. The song is altogether different.

  • @tikizia1981: I looked up the David Essex song "Rock On" and found that while the tune is exactly the same, the lyrics also had "boogey too" in the exact same place where Ringo says "Boogaloo". That song was written in '73 for a movie "That'll Be the Day" starring both Essex and Starr. The song never made it into the movie. That, combined with the anecdote in the comments on this clip, makes me wonder if Ringo merely thought of ripping off the work 4 years later. See Youtube aK6jgzV32bg

  • i WONDER how many songs r Ringos completly like this 1,?? cause it shows great talent creating and never was known as an song writer< not a great one anyway!!!!

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