Drummer had been recently hired for the band and even recorded the song, but his version was pretended on the debut album
Ringo Starr was present of the first, Please please (1963), to the last studio album of Beatles, Let it be (1970). However, this does not mean that he touched all the songs recorded by FAB Four.
First, because there are a series of songs that don’t even have battery: “Yesterday”, “Eleanor Rigby”, “Within You Without You”among others. Second, because even in some songs with the instrument he was eventually deprived. This is the case, for example, “Love Me Do”first single from the band.
“Love Me Do” It has three distinct versions:
- with PETE BESToriginal drummer of Beatles;
- with Ringo Starr, who had been brought to the post after Pete’s resignation;
- and with Andy Whitethe producer’s trusting studio musician George Martin.
The version of “Love Me Do” who entered the band’s debut album turned out to be with Andy White in the drumsticks. This, of course, left Ringo hurt.
He told about this episode in an interview with The Sessions Panel (Transcript of Ultimate Guitar), when it remembered some of its greatest (and angry) allegations with the band:
“Well, one of the most exciting things was that we recorded a album. But I personally went through hell, because George Martin had a studio drummer called Andy White. Anyway, he didn’t know Beatles had changed a drummer and I was coming in.
According to Ringo, from then on he never stopped taking George Martin’s foot because of this:
“I made him apologize every day.”
George Martin redeemed with Ringo Starr
George Martin, in fact, would redeem himself with the drummer by nicknamed him as a “metronome”. Ringo Starr was never a exuberant musician, but he could keep the pace as few and had creativity.
Because of this, Martin convinced his value, to the point that the producer had surrendered to him:
“I have a lot of filming from George (Martin). He had that great phrase about me. He said, ‘You know, the Beatles did it,’ and someone asked him, ‘Did you have a metronome?’ He replied, ‘Yes, we had. Ringo was his name.’
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Source: Rollingstone
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