Release and Aftermath
The album cover was taken in a booth in northern England.
As Starr's RCA Records contract had been cancelled, he needed to find a new label for Old Wave. Though it was just over a decade after The Beatles' dissolution, no major UK or US record company was interested in signing him. Starr would not accept that and was determined to have Old Wave released any way he could. The album was due to be released on the Boardwalk label, but never appeared due to the death of the label's head, Neil Bogart.
RCA Canada ended up distributing the album in June 1983 in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Holland (which imported German copies and attached a Dutch sticker), Mexico, and Brazil; while in Germany, the album and lone single pulled from it appeared on the Bellaphon label. In Mexico, "She's About a Mover" b/w "I Keep Forgettin'" was released as a single. However, Old Wave failed to achieve success in any of these territories, and would be Starr's last studio album until 1992's Time Takes Time.
The only single pulled from the album was in Germany: "In My Car" b/w "As Far as We Can Go". Walsh's 1987 album Got Any Gum? included a cover of "In My Car", which was released as a single and became a moderate hit.
Old Wave was reissued on CD in the US by Capitol Records in 1994 with the original recording of "As Far as We Can Go", made in July 1978, as a bonus track.
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