McCartney last teamed up with Starr for his 1998 album, Vertical Man, which also featured George Harrison and George Martin.
Horizontally, as Gainsbourg boasts, he never had any complaints; but what was the secret of the vertical man?
The title of Starr's album, "Vertical Man," is taken from an Auden quote: "Let's hear it for the vertical man, because so much praise is given to the horizontal one".
Ringo Starr's new album, "Vertical Man," features a cover of "Love Me Do," the Beatles' first single.
His most recent recordings were 1998's "Vertical Man," VH1 "Storytellers" release and 1999's Christmas album "I Wanna Be Santa Claus".
His forays into sculpture were not so successful, the vertical zip becoming a Giacometti-like vertical man, except that Newman presented these figures not on a horizontal plane but on fussy plinths.
Let us honour if we can The vertical man, Though we value none But the horizontal one.
The pair collaborated again in 1998, on Starr's Vertical Man, which featured McCartney's backing vocals on three songs, and instrumentation on one.
In June 1998, he attended the public memorial service for Linda McCartney, and appeared on Starr's album Vertical Man, playing guitar on two tracks.
Starr also played the song live with Ringo and the Roundheads, a band he formed to promote his 1998 studio album Vertical Man.
