A Starr around your wrist
The Beatle who earned his famous nickname by covering his fingers with rings is now making news with a bracelet.
“Liverpool 8,” the new Capitol/EMI album from 67-year-old Ringo Starr, is being released Jan. 15 as a CD, a digital download and also as a “pre-loaded USB wristband” -- basically a memory stick with enough plastic attached to wrap around a wrist -- that includes all 12 tracks and a slew of extras, including “a personal video message, interview and track commentary from Ringo Starr, behind-the-scenes making-of footage from the recording sessions, ring tones, photos and more.”
There are more details at www.ringostarr.com, but this already opens a whole new world of albums-as-accessories. How soon can we buy “Blackout” by Britney Spears in the ankle-monitor format? And how great would it be to work toward the weekend by wearing Toto’s greatest hits in your headband?
-- Geoff Boucher
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