Ravinia 2019, Issue 5, Week 9

7:00 PM SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 2019 PAVILION 7:00 PM SUNDAY, AUGUST 4, 2019 THE BEACH BOYS –Intermission– RINGO STARR & HIS ALL STARR BAND THE BEACH BOYS Most artists measure their success by hit songs or albums sold, but few can also claim to have made a lasting impact on the music industry; The Beach Boys are one such group. Through- out the 1960s the group ruled the airwaves and came to define a style of rock with a parade of hits beginning with 1961’s “Surfin’,” co-written by frontman Mike Love and co-founder Brian Wil- son. The Beach Boys scored multiple top-10 hits every year for half a decade: in 1963 there was “Surfin’ USA” and “Surfer Girl”; 1964, “Fun, Fun, Fun” and number-one “I Get Around”; 1965, number-one “Help Me, Rhonda” and “Barbara Ann”; 1966, “Sloop John B” and the history-de- fining “Good Vibrations.” In addition to creating that enduringly popular song, the group altered the fabric of the recording industry with 1966’s Pet Sounds , which would later be named number two on Rolling Stone ’s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. With the release of Endless Summer in 1974, The Beach Boys began to enthrall a second generation of fans, and in 1988 “Kokomo” became the group’s biggest hit and first chart-topper since “Good Vibrations,” today its best-selling single. That same year, the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and in 2001 The Beach Boys were accorded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2012, the living original members of the group reunited for a 50th anniversary tour, also recording their first studio album of original material in over a decade, That’s Why God Made the Radio . The album entered Billboard ’s charts at number three, making it The Beach Boys’ first top-10 record since 1976. The Beach Boys first appeared at Ra- vinia in 2002 and tonight return for their 12th season at the festival. RINGO STARR & HIS ALL STARR BAND Since launching his career with The Beatles in the 1960s, Ringo Starr has been a successful, dynamic singer, songwriter, drummer, collabo- rator, and producer, releasing 19 solo studio al- bums to date. Born Richard Starkey in 1940, he knew from his early teens that he wanted to be a drummer. At 17 Starr joined the Eddie Clay- ton Skiffle Band, and then in 1959 he linked up with the Raving Texans. Three years later he was asked to join The Beatles. Starr released his first solo album in 1970, Sentimental Journey , and followed up a year later with Beaucoup of Blues . The Beatles disbanded that same year, but Starr’s creative energy was undeterred, and he became the first Beatle to score a string of top-10 sin- gles, from “It Don’t Come Easy” to 1972’s “Back Off Boogaloo” to his twin number-ones “Photo- graph” and “You’re Sixteen (You’re Beautiful and You’re Mine)” off his 1973 smash-hit eponymous album. The hits kept rolling through the ’70s with a quick succession of albums— Goodnight Vienna (1974), Blast from Your Past (1975), Roto- gravure (1976), Ringo the 4th (1977), and Bad Boy (1978)—and he earned his biggest critical suc- cess since Ringo with 1981’s Stop and Smell the Roses . Starr assembled his first All Starr Band in 1989, an experience so reinvigorating that a live album was cut with the group in 1990. An- other five lineups of the All Starrs were formed through the ’90s, including tours across the US and Europe and to Russia, and he issued two more critical darlings in Time Takes Time (1992) and Vertical Man (1998). He put together four All-Starr Bands in the 2000s and another four over the 2010s. Starr received a star on the Hol- lywood Walk of Fame in 2010, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist in 2015, and was knighted last year. Ringo Starr & His All Starr Band first played Ravinia in 1995 and are returning to the festival for the first time. JULY 29 – AUGUST 4, 2019 | RAVINIA MAGAZINE 103