Listen to Ringo Starr’s EP with The Strokes’ Nick Valensi, ‘Crooked Boy’

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Ringo Starr’s EP with The Strokes‘ guitarist Nick Valensi, ‘Crooked Boy’, is now available on streaming after being originally released on exclusive vinyl for Record Store Day.The four-track EP was co-written with Linda Perry, who Starr previously worked with on the tracks ‘Coming Undone’ and ‘Everyone And Everything’.“I love what Linda did and I think all the songs are all great but one thing I did ask her was to write me a rocker,” the former Beatles drummer said in a statement. “And that’s ‘Gonna Need Someone’ and I love it!

Nick Valensi plays guitars on it — and on all of the EP — and he is great.”The release of ‘Crooked Boy’ is accompanied by the visuals for one of its tracks, ‘Gonna Need Someone’, directed by Johann Rashid.Check out the video and the rest of the EP below:More new music from Starr, however, might soon be on the way.

In February, he revealed he’d turned his hand to writing country music. “I was gonna do a country EP, but as things are unfolding, it’s probably gonna be like a real CD,” he said in a video update. “Ten tracks, can you believe it?

Haven’t done one of them in a long time.”Meanwhile, Starr also recently said that there is “not a lot of joy” in documentary Let It Be, ahead of its imminent re-release.Earlier this month, NME exclusively announced that Disney+ were to release a restored version of the 1970 film on May 8.Directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Let It Be was first released in cinemas 54 years ago and has been difficult to obtain since – prompting considerable bootlegging.