More than any musical aspect, drummer highlights a feature that always united the four members of the band
To Ringo Starrthe success of Beatles It must be attributed not only to the musical genius of its members. There is a feature that united the four: a friendship.
According to the drummer, it was companionship between friends who made it possible to flourish songs and records that became emblematic classics of pop music. It sounds simple, but it is not.
In an interview with Dan Ratherfrom the Axs tv (via American Songwriter), Ringo developed his perception of what kept the band’s union. He said:
“I think everything is part where we came from (Liverpool). You know, I always give credit to the fact that we are four. If one of us freaked out or did important, then the other three said, ‘How is it?’
The drummer quoted the case of Elvis Presley to exemplify the counterpoint of your theory. According to him, when he met the Rock King could see some contrast to the Beatles in this regard:
“When we met Elvis, I really thought, ‘How sad is he alone.’ He had all those people around him, but he was alone. I had three great friends, so it was fine enough.”
Talent and Discipline in Beatles
Ringo, of course, is not naive to belittle the music bias and even leadership to lead the Beatles to the top. In this sense, the drummer highlights Paul McCartney as a fundamental piece.
“Suddenly we had our lives and children. The effort we made, because we worked hard, started to get weaker. We thank Paul to this day. Because of Paul, who was the workaholic of our band, we did a lot more records than John and I would have done it. to record).”
Not everything is flowers
Not everything was just friendship and happiness in the Beatles, of course. During the so -called Beatlemania, a name given to the period when artists performed shows while as a phenomenon of popularity – between 1963 and 1966 – they experienced virtually unpublished fame in music; However, the success achieved also brought some negative aspects.
Who witnessed this closely was the Greek engineer Alexis Mardas – Also known as Magic Alex – who was quite close to the band. In an interview for the book All You Need Is Love: The Beatles in Their Own Wordswritten by Peter Brown and Steven Gaines (via Cheatsheet), he quoted which part of the fame most bored and bothered the band, as well as mentioning the musician most affected by the issue.
Mark he said:
“It came to a point where the Beatles wanted to have privacy. Ringo (Starr) even said that he would give everything in his life to go to a pub, which is a tradition in England, to have a beer. He couldn’t. So he had to build a pub in his home. But it wasn’t the same because he missed a real pub.”
The engineer even said that at one point, he noticed the band in a state of depression because of this consequence of fame. He stated:
“It made them very sad. I mean, they had everything on one side, but the other point of view, they completely lost their freedom. For me, that’s why they abandoned the stage. They didn’t want this advertising.”
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