Ringo Starr - Live in Rancho Mirage - 14. Back Off Boogaloo

Agua Caliente Casino, California, August 5th 2010.

Back Off Boogaloo is a 1972 single released by Ringo Starr. The song was a hit in the U.S. reaching #9 on the US Hot 100 and achieving Starr's best position in the UK Singles Chart - it reached #2 there, only blocked by the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards version of "Amazing Grace"

This is one of the few songs that Starr solely wrote. He wrote and composed the song himself and George Harrison produced it.

The single was put on the re-issue of Ringo Starr's 1974 album Goodnight Vienna.

The promotional video shows Starr walking around an outdoor structure while being followed by a Frankenstein creature. The creature is similar to the creature on the cover of the single. Starr eventually notices the monster and the two hug and spend the rest of the day together.

The song was remade by Starr and put on his 1981 album Stop and Smell the Roses.

The B-side is "Blindman".

In a 1977 interview, Starr explained that the phrase "Back Off Boogaloo" was inspired when he and fellow musician and close friend Marc Bolan had dinner one night, and Bolan used the word "boogaloo" multiple times in his sentences. Starr said that after dinner, during a time when he was half awake and half asleep, he had gotten the beat and tune for the song in his head and went to find a tape recorder to record the song but had trouble when all his tape recorders either were broken or had no batteries, adding, "So, I stole batteries from the kids toys and I got the song down."