In a new music video for his recent cover of Bill Haley and His Comets’ classic, Ringo Starr taps some of his earliest rock & roll experiences for a lively performance of “Rock Around the Clock.”
The video shows Starr recording vocals and drums for the song in his Roccabella West studio, as well as extra behind-the-scenes footage from the cover’s creation. There’s footage of Starr admiring Nathan East’s bass playing, while engineer Bruce Sugar captures Joe Walsh’s typically polished guitar work in his home studio.
On his latest EP, Change the World, Starr performs a cover of “Rock Around the Clock.” Starr said in a statement that he first heard the song when he was about to turn 15, and after spending both his seventh and fourteenth birthdays in the hospital due to illness, he was keen to avoid another birthday in the hospital. Starr was doing well enough that his physicians let him go, and his grandparents surprised him by taking him to see the film Blackboard Jungle, which included “Rock Around the Clock” prominently.
Change the World was published in September, and it is Starr’s second EP of 2021, after Zoom In, which was released in March. Walsh, Trombone Shorty, Linda Perry, Toto’s Joseph Williams, and Steve Lukather all make appearances on the new album.
