On April 18, Starr will be inducted - by one of his collaborators from that other band, Paul McCartney - into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for his solo career, joining the other three Beatles as double inductees. We went to London because that was the center of where everything was happening in music, but no girls would dance with us because we were from Liverpool, and we had the accents.” One day, we ran out of butter, and then it was just bread and jam. “We were living off bread, butter and jam. “It’s a true story,” Starr said, relaxing in his chair. The record’s opening track, “Rory and the Hurricanes,” charts the excitement he soaked up as a lad in postwar Liverpool playing rock ‘n’ roll with like-minded pals, before he fell in with what he often refers to as “that other band I was in.” Such continued focus on his next move is part of what’s allowed Starr to remain vital, but there are times in the new album where he revisits earlier chapters in his life. “So I might do my next record the regular way,” he said. But then I went into a studio with Joe Walsh recently and we did it that way, and it was great. “There’s none of the pressure of everybody being in the studio, and the red light goes on and everybody’s got to get it right. “I’ve recorded the last three albums this way, at my home,” said the 74-year-old Starr, looking trim in his all-black outfit. But it wasn’t long before Starr turned to thoughts about his next album. His focus was largely on “Postcards From Paradise,” a collection of collaborations released Tuesday that features many of his rock star pals, including Joe Walsh, Todd Rundgren, Peter Frampton, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers keyboardist Benmont Tench and producer-songwriter Glen Ballard. He bounded from one room to the next in his top-floor suite at a West Hollywood hotel, hustling through a string of interviews. A day before Ringo Starr’s new solo album, “Postcards From Paradise,” was slated for release, the former Beatle was at the hub of a frenzy of activity.
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