Blast from Your Past is a compilation album by the English rock musician Ringo Starr, released on Apple Records in 1975. It is both Starr's first compilation LP and his final release under his contract with EMI. It was also the last album to be released on the Beatles' Apple label until it was revived in the 1990s.

The album provides an overview of Starr's most successful period as a solo artist. The songs include his RIAA gold-certified singles "It Don't Come Easy", "Photograph" and "You're Sixteen", and other international hits such as "Back Off Boogaloo" and "Only You". The album peaked at number 30 on the US Billboard pop LPs chart but failed to chart in the UK.

Content

Blast from Your Past provides an overview of Starr's musical achievements as a solo artist during the first half of the 1970s. The album compiles eight singles, one B-side, and one album track, all released between 1970 and 1975.|group="nb" The sleeve for the album was designed by Roy Kohara. to promote the compilation and also because both of the songs had appeared there only as album tracks. As with John Lennon's recently released Apple compilation, Shaved Fish, the sales of Blast from Your Past were disappointing. The album failed to chart in the UK and peaked at number 30 in the US. Writing in their book The Beatles: An Illustrated Record, Roy Carr and Tony Tyler also commented on its "short weight" nature, saying: "the tracks total no more than half-an-hour. Both sides together, that is."

Blast from Your Past was reissued in the US by Capitol Records in September 1981, while in the UK it was released by the budget label Music for Pleasure on 25 November 1981. and in the US on 18 January 1988.

All the tracks from Blast from Your Past appear on Starr's 2007 career-spanning compilation album Photograph: The Very Best of Ringo Starr.

Track listing

Charts

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!Chart (1975/76)

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|align="left"|Australian Kent Music Report

|95

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|align="left"|US Billboard 200

|30

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See also

  • Shaved Fish
  • The Best of George Harrison
  • Wings Greatest

References

; Footnotes

; Citations

  • JPGR's Blast from Your Past site