Blast from Your Past

Blast from Your Past
Compilation album by
Ringo Starr
Released25 November 1975
Recorded1970–1974
GenreRock
Length31:51
LabelApple
Producer
Ringo Starr chronology
Goodnight Vienna
(1974) 		Blast from Your Past
(1975) 		Ringo's Rotogravure
(1976)
Singles from Blast from Your Past
  1. "Oh My My"
    Released: 9 January 1976
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic [1]
Christgau's Record GuideB+[2]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[3]
The Essential Rock Discography6/10[4]
MusicHound3/5[5]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[6]

Blast from Your Past is a compilation album by 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[7] 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.

  1. ^ Blast from Your Past at AllMusic
  2. ^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: S". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved 13 March 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
  3. ^ Larkin, Colin (2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th edn). London: Omnibus Press. p. 1984. ISBN 978-0-85712-595-8.
  4. ^ Strong, Martin C. (2006). The Essential Rock Discography. Edinburgh, UK: Canongate. p. 1028. ISBN 978-1-84195-827-9.
  5. ^ Gary Graff & Daniel Durchholz (eds), MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide, Visible Ink Press (Farmington Hills, MI, 1999; ISBN 1-57859-061-2), p. 1082.
  6. ^ Brackett, Nathan; with Hoard, Christian (eds) (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th edn). New York, NY: Fireside. p. 777. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
  7. ^ Harry, Bill (2004). The Ringo Starr Encyclopedia. London: Virgin Books. p. 87. ISBN 978-0-7535-0843-5.