I just caught up with last week’s online concert to celebrate Ringo Starr’s 80th birthday. Not only does the show, viewable in full on YouTube, contain lots of great tunes, it’s a testament to the progress being made in production values for this new Covid Concert format. The entire show is worth the hour of your time, but I especially enjoyed the energy Shiela E. — “Shieler E.” as it’s rendered in Starr’s Scouse accent — brought to this medley of late-era Beatles classics, which features Starr on drums and Shiela on percussion and vocals.
