Ringo Starr and his All-Starr Band live: Oktyabrsky Concert Hall, Saint Petersburg

Ringo Starr and his All-Starr Band performed at the Oktyabrsky Concert Hall (BKZ) in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on 26 August 1998.

It was the 11th show of the fourth All-Starr Band’s European tour, which lasted for 18 dates in August and September 1998.

Starr returned to the BKZ Oktyabrsky on 7 June 2011.

The concerts in Russia were wonderful and it was a moving and humbling experience to be able to play there after so long. People were telling me they had waited thirty years to see me play. Better late than never! They also told me that because the old Soviet regime prohibited western rock music, they made illegal records called “Bones” because they were produced using old x-ray film and sometimes you could still see the x-ray photographs! I wouldn’t mind having one of those. We travelled by night train from Moscow to St. Petersburg and it was sad to see the poverty of the people at the stations. We left Moscow Central at midnight and all the people there looked exhausted – almost beaten. They have given so much and suffered so much over the centuries the Russian people. I hope with all my heart that better times will come soon for them.

The fourth All-Starr Band

• Ringo Starr: vocals, drums, percussion
• Peter Frampton: guitar, vocals
• Jack Bruce: bass guitar, keyboards, guitar, vocals
• Gary Brooker: keyboards, organ, vocals
• Mark Rivera: saxophone, guitar, organ, keyboards, percussion, vocals
• Simon Kirke: vocals, drums

Concert setlist

• ‘It Don’t Come Easy’
• ‘Act Naturally’
• ‘Whisky Train’ (Gary Brooker)
• ‘Show Me The Way’ (Peter Frampton)
• ‘Sunshine Of Your Love’ (Jack Bruce)
• ‘Shooting Star’ (Simon Kirke)
• ‘Boys’
• ‘Baby, I Love Your Way’ (Peter Frampton)
• ‘Love Me Do’
• ‘Yellow Submarine’
• ‘All I Wanna Be (Is By Your Side)’ (Peter Frampton)
• ‘Theme For An Imaginary Western’ (Jack Bruce)
• ‘Conquistador’ (Gary Brooker)
• ‘I’m The Greatest’
• ‘No No Song’
• ‘La De Da’
• ‘I Feel Free’ (Jack Bruce)
• ‘All Right Now’ (Simon Kirke)
• ‘I Wanna Be Your Man’
• ‘Do You Feel Like We Do’ (Peter Frampton)
• ‘White Room’ (Jack Bruce)
• ‘A Whiter Shade Of Pale’ (Gary Brooker)
• ‘Photograph’

• ‘With A Little Help From My Friends’

1998 All-Starr Band tour dates

• 7 August 1998: Helsingin Jäähalli, Helsinki, Finland
• 8 August 1998: Heitere Open Air, Zofingen, Switzerland
• 9 August 1998: Smukfest, Skanderborg, Denmark
• 12 August 1998: Freilichtbühne, Stuttgart, Germany
• 13 August 1998: Theaterplatz, Chemnitz, Germany
• 16 August 1998: Marktrock, Leuven, Belgium
• 18 August 1998: Expo 98, Lisbon, Portugal
• 20 August 1998: The Point, Dublin, Ireland
• 21 August 1998: Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London, England
• 25 August 1998: State Central Concert Hall Rossiya, Moscow, Russia
• 26 August 1998: Oktyabrsky Concert Hall, Saint Petersburg, Russia
• 28 August 1998: Salle Des Etoiles, Monte Carlo
• 29 August 1998: Salle Des Etoiles, Monte Carlo
• 30 August 1998: Salle Des Etoiles, Monte Carlo
• 1 September 1998: Grugahalle, Essen, Germany
• 2 September 1998: Stadtpark Freilichtbühne, Hamburg, Germany
• 3 September 1998: Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany
• 5 September 1998: Wintershall Estate, Bramley, England