Ringo Starr April 1971

Title: It Don`t Come Easy Version 1
Type: Promo Video
Filming Location: Various & Weybridge, Surrey, England
Filming Date: Early April 1971
Broadcast Date: April 22nd 1971
Country Of Broadcast: England
Duration: 02:49 Minutes
Quality: B-
Source: Photograph - The Very Best Of Ringo Starr (Collector`s Edition DVD) (Aug 2007)
Other Sources: "Ringo Starr Chronology 1969-1971" (Happy Snake) (Excerpts)

Notes: Ringo hastily put together a promo video for his new single "It Don`t Come Easy".It's UK premiere and possibly only
showing at the time was on "Top of The Pops" on April 22, 1971.A week later on TOTP the 2nd promo taken from the "Cilla in
Scandinavia" TV show was shown despite having only been filmed on April 25 in Norway!

The first promo features various home movies shot by Ringo & his friends from 1967 - 1971. The home movies include the following footage:
Ringo (and Ewa Aulin) on the set of "Candy" (Dec 1967) (8 seconds)
Ringo (and Peter Sellers) on the set of "The Magic Christian" (March 1969) (11 seconds)
Specially filmed footage for the promo (Bobbing penguin heads; On a swing; Behind a toy train; Playing guitar and drums; Close-up footage of Ringo) (Early April 1971) (1:56 minutes).

There are other brief bits of footage in the promo including 3 seconds of a home movie taken in 1970 possibly from the filming
of "Who Goes There" in August 1970 as well as random scenes of people skipping (possibly on the set of "The Magic Christian"
in 1969; Footage of some trees; Kittens playing; A psychedelic like film projected onto someone or something (ala MMT's "Blue
Jay Way"); Someone wearing a pig face mask which kinda looks like Paul in a "Help" outtake but probably isn't and a "Pays To
Advertise" signs (filmed back to front).The final minute and a half of the promo only features the 1971 footage though a few
seconds appear earlier in the promo like the bobbing penguin heads.

Amazingly when this promo was featured on the DVD "Photograph - The Very Best of Ringo Starr" in August 2007 it's quality wasn't
very good at all but unexpectedly in 2024, Ringo's new promo videos for his songs "Gonna Need Someone" and "Crooked Boy"
include some beautiful remastered outtakes from the 1971 home movie footage as well as outtakes from other home movies like the
1970 "Who Goes There" film and what is probably a clip from 1970's "Philbin's People" TV appearance. Obviously someone is
finally cleaning up Ringo's film archives!.Also Ringo`s Gonna Need Someone promo had pristine parts of the original It Don`t
Come Easy promo which can be seen in the seond row of captures.