Back Off Boogaloo is a Ringo Starr single from 1972, and one of his most successful. The phrase came from musician Marc Bolan. Ringo recorded a new version of the song in 1981,which can be heard on his album Stop and Smell the Roses.

Pete Doherty, of The Libertines and Babyshambles fame, recently accused Scottish rock group Franz Ferdinand of plagiarising the riff from "Back Off Boogaloo" for their hit Take Me Out.

This song was supposedly written towards Paul McCartney (it has been rumoured that "Boogaloo" was a nickname for Paul). Ringo has recently claimed that the song is actually inspired by Marc Bolan.

On the American version of the single, the B-side is "Blindman".