I feel like this does a lot to counter the "Ringo is the luckiest person in the world" crap. I had no idea he worked this hard and got along with them so early on!
There’s an expression, which has been attributed to several sports figures (Lee Trevino being one of them), so no idea who actually said it, but it applies to Ringo: “It’s amazing, but the more I practice, the luckier I get”.
John said very early on that they were lucky to get Ringo , I always loved that he always played what was required to enhance the song, rather than to show off his chops .I always thought the Stones were fortunate to get Charlie Watts for the same reason .
Type in, “The world’s greatest drummers salute Ringo Starr”. It’s a 3 minute vid with people who know know what they’re talking about when it comes to drumming give their verdict on Ringo 🥁
When Ringo left school he couldn't get his Leaving Certificate signed, since he'd been absent through sickness so much the school denied he'd ever been a pupil there. In 1963, he went back as Guest Of Honour at the school fete and they were charging fans to sit at his school desk. As Ringo said, "They claimed I'd never been there, but somehow they'd found my bloody desk" 😆
@@campbellgraham1979 It's in this pretty interesting little video...given how many scousers think Ringo hates Liverpool (because of a few jokes he made, really) it's nice to see him visit a few places from childhood and talk about them...m.th-cam.com/video/Ji6bpPIPScI/w-d-xo.html
@@lucasoheyze4597 I’m an Everton supporter so I visit Liverpool a lot and you wouldn’t believe the amount of scousers I know who don’t just hate Ringo, but The Beatles as a whole.
@@campbellgraham1979 I'm a postman in Toxteth and you're right...but if you quiz them a bit you find they rarely know what they're talking about (and lots of us DO love the guy 😉)
Ringo is the reason the Beatles were so loved. John and Paul knew they needed not only a great drummer, but a larger than life personality too. John, Paul & George all had big personalities and needed someone of the same caliber. Anyone who questions how important Ringo was to the Beatles popularity, I say this. Which Beatle was the main character in A Hard Day's Night, Help, Yellow Submarine and even the Animated Cartoons? That's right! Ringo!
If there’s one interesting thing to mention, even when they broke up, even when each member was angry at each other. No one, and I mean no one, called Ringo a lousy drummer. When John was calling Paul’s music musak, George and John wanted Ringo on their solo work. Just goes to show how good of a drummer Ringo truly is
@@PIERRECLARY at least it's not only me that sees all those drum solos for what they are. Terrible noise. The way the fans of such bands listen to such nonsense like 'moby dick' or 'rat salad' (rat salad was a disappointment because I love Bill Ward) and think of it as something good beats me, Ringo's solo in 'The End' is the best I've heard till today, the rest just sounds like monkeys finally bought drums.
Ringo is Ringo. He was never the most technical drummer and people trash him for that. But these people don’t realize that he didn’t need to be a technical drummer. He plays for the good of the song. He provides the heartbeat. Still to this day the man is all about the pocket, the groove and the feel! That makes Ringo Starr one of the greatest drummers in rock and roll history.
The hardest working Beatle too . When they recorded he was there , through take after take , whether there was one other Beatle or the whole band . Pre drum machines , he was there all session long . George said when Ringo decided enough , they pulled the session and went home . He clocked more studio hours than any of the others .
@@johanpetersson5263 Lennon said they were lucky to get him , Rory Storm and the Hurricanes were a rung higher up the ladder than the Beatles when they poached him . Likewise Charlie Watts and the Stones .
In the Beatles, John was the MIND, Paul was the HEART, George was the SOUL, and Ringo was the BODY, the backbeat that kept them together. He is a most UNDERRATED Drummer. There is a recent tribute video to him by this talented young German girl called "Sina" , so check it out here on TH-cam. Other drummers like Dave Grohl have called Ringo "Badass", and Phil Collins has also named him as an inspiration. Listen to some of Ringo's fills in songs like "A Day in the Life", and how he played on countless other Beatles' songs like "Ticket to Ride", "Day Tripper", and even as far back as "Not a Second Time", not to mention some of his early SOLO stuff, especially like "It Don't Come Easy", and "Back off Boogaloo". I have only TWO of the Beatles' autographs, one is Ringo, and the other, believe it or not, is PETE BEST. Can't believe Ringo will soon be 81yrs old. Long Live RINGO!!
My next door neighbour (now sadly deceased) was Ringo,s boss in charge of apprenticeships at the engineering company. He said that Ringo to was in a terrible state about what to do about his future. Mr Lewis told him to to go to Hamburg with the band and to tell his parents that he would make sure Ringo could rejoin the company and finish the final year of his apprenticeship if the band situation didn't work out. He used to have a framed note from "Ritchie" (Ringo) thanking him for his help and advice.
That is so neat, Ringo is a class act always has been. Love hearing stories of people adjacent to the Beatles in any way living or working with them firsthand. Thank you for sharing that.
@@jb888888888 nah, it's the rhythm of it - you need that second syllable on the last name. Maybe John, Paul, George and Petey...??? Even better, he could have started calling himself Pedro. John, Paul, George and Pedro would've sounded pretty good.
Lol yea. John, Paul George and Pete sounds like something ended abruptly in the end, while Ringo sounds more like there is a continuity. Hence, with Pete, it sounds like the band just stopped progressing, while with Ringo, it sounds more like the band just goes on and on. Altho we know they also disbanded eventually, lol.
@@michaelmelling9333 50s, man. You're seeing what looks like "wall-carpeting," which is 70s but that´s actually stone (50s). A Millennial would never know the difference.
Those earth tone colors and the plywood look 70s-ish, but the narrator guy has the 50s look from head to toe...in the 70s, the "wet head" was dead, and everyone was sporting big hair with the Dry Look hairspray...but yea, the whole combo looks great!
I'm a bass player and once helped a guy carry his drums to a rehearsal taking public transportation. I never did that again, it was the middle of winter. Ringo Starr is the most consistently good 👍 player of The 4 Beatles.
@Topazthecat Paul McCartney is a fine bassist but this story is about Ringo. And I stand by my words. I did not say he was the best musician in the band I said he was the most consistent. He makes few mistakes where the other 3 do.
@Topazthecat why are we having this dumb discussion? Everybody makes mistakes? Am I supposed to name when each Beatles plays or sings a wrong note? I'm a huge Beatles fan but some of you folks think they are God's. They are not. They are human like the rest of us. I'm finished with this. Please stop wasting my time.
Studio staff at Abbey Road Studios, and a study of the session tapes confirm that, if a take "broke down", it was rarely Ringo's fault that it happened. That's a historical fact.
I learned to play the drums listening to Ringo. He is absolutely brilliant. No other drummer could have made such an important contribution to the Fab Four.😘🥁🌻
My esteem for Ringo's talents and contributions to The Beatles music has only grown over the decades I've been listening to them. There's a style and innovation that was unique and of equal importance to what the other members of the band brought to each song. As hard as the decision may have been, he was the absolute right choice for their sound, and success.
This was entertaining from start to finish. I’m a pretty big fan and I hadn’t seen a LOT of these early Ringo photos. Really good scholarship and presented in a highly entertaining way. A+.
And this is another video proving that Pete wasn't as good of a drummer as Ringo was. This video mentioned Ringo playing for 3 bands. He was in demand more than Pete.
@@beatlecristian Yes the Beatles Anthology made Pete a Multi Millionaire. Pete also got a Carlberg Lager Commercial which ran during the Anthology's original run on ABC in America. Not a bad financial haul....
Ringo never seems to age and he's still playing just as well as always. Pete Best was passable as a drummer (at...best). He probably would have been okay in a bar band, but he just didn't really have the skills to get any further and didn't seem to have the desire to improve.
And the lesson is...follow your passion and don,t listen to your parents if they try to make you live a life you feel uncomfortable with.Otherwise we would have no musicians or other artists....
There was at least 3 record producers that didn't like Pete Best's drumming and George Martin was one of them. The Beatles were also lucky that Ringo was a drummer in their home town of Liverpool.
@@thekitowl Wut?!?!?! If you can't play in the studio you are out. It was actually 4 producers that didn't like Pete's drumming. That is waaaayyyy good enough reason for Pete getting sacked. th-cam.com/video/jU3a1deif-w/w-d-xo.html
The Story of Pete best is so tragic in my opinion. Only one can imagine how hard it is being cut from the best band in the world, not to mention the Beatles never paid him back, and he spent the most part of the 60’s working at minimum wage jobs.
Never paid him back for what? He did get some notoriety and some albums in the 60s, and he got some Beatles money in the 90s when some recordings with him were used in the Anthology compilation.
Yeah, it is sad, but that's the risk of pursuing a career in music. Sometimes it pays off, sometimes it doesn't. Ringo also took that risk when he had to choose between his personal life and his career.
He didn't want to improve with the band, never practiced, never hung out with them, and had absolutely no personality. He was clearly not cut for the Beatle cloth.
Vinyl Rewind this was one of the best if not the best video/information on Ringo’s earlier life straight up to Joining the Beatles. I picked up some info on Ringo’s early schooling/jobs & drumming gig’s I didn’t know before. However as mentioned in one of the below comments that Ringo was one of the luckiest men in the world, partly true but much more to his story as explained in this video. I knew for years as I read by reputable Beatle authors that George was an integral part getting Ringo in the band, he got along well w/George and he fit in with John & Paul too. It amazes me how a lot of Beatles fans don’t know that Ringo didn’t just appear out of nowhere to join them, he was a professional drummer in a good band- sat in w/the Beatles quite a few times in Hamburg & had a rapport with them. His drumming fit the Beatles sound perfectly as mentioned in this video & he could hold down the tempo & beat. Pete Best has his own drumming style & personality it just didn’t fit in w/ the rest of the group. George Martin heard the flaw in Pete’s drumming in their first recording session, which obviously was the out the Beatles needed to fire Pete. The not so big mystery here was the Beatles did not confront Pete themselves about letting him go, they went the managerial route & had Brian Epstein do it. Not the nicest way to go about it- but at that point in their age & career how many others could have done it much differently? As Lennon said & I quote “Ringo was not only a drummer he was a Beatle”. Thanks for this video..
Wow! I thought I knew a lot about the Beatles, but admittedly, I didn't know that much about Ringo's back story. I've never seen a lot of these photos you used too. Great video. I definitely think people have begun to reappraise Ringo and these kinds of videos certainly help the cause. Thank you!
Pete didn't hang out with the band and alienated himself. That's never a good idea, because a band is a family. Plus he had more presence. Pete wasn't a bad drummer, but he didn't have anything special. Getting Ringo was a masterstroke.
@@bigmack2262 I agree. That closed hi-hat sound never did much for me - Ringo played with more "pizazz" and that really must have been obvious on the nights when he filled in for Pete. I don't think we'd have the whole Beatles experience without Ringo.
@@jduff59 "the nights when he filled in for Pete"? Both sides have contradicted themselves over the years. The Beatles have portrayed Pete as someone that routinely, and almost deliberately missed gigs. Yet they have been vague on details and dates. In his book, Pete wrote that during his two year tenure he only missed two gigs. Both were lunchtime gigs at the Cavern. Once he had the flu and the second time he had to go to court.
@@bigmack2262 None of the Beatles played particularly well during the Decca audition. Brian picked the set-list to show the bands diversity. They weren't their best live songs.
You should have mentioned that Ringo is left handed and forced to play a right handed drum kit by his grandmother. Also, his son Zak is an amazing drummer who plays with the Who and Oasis plus many more bands. Great video though.
My dad and I are seeing Ringo in May. I've never been to a real concert before, so I'm really excited! I think people see me as another Beatles fangirl, but Ringo genuinely inspired me to drum. My uncle is a drummer too (another inspiration, of course!) and gave me his drum set. It's been collecting dust since I started college and I want to start learning a Beatles song. My uncle said a lot of early Beatles songs are pretty easy, especially Eight Days a Week, so hopefully I'll be able to play a song by the time I see him.
@2v_5r exactly, I didn't know the Beatles until I was ready to seek them out and love and seep in all that music, I wondered why the Conductor was in the Beatles and it kinda made sense when I saw Yellow Submarine
Great post! Being 63 today I grew up as a little boy buying the Beatle's every album. My favorite Christmas back then was when one of my presents was "Beatles '65." I adored their music. But after Rubber Soul I never bought another album.
With all of that poor health as a child and massive assaults on his body with alcohol and drugs for decades, Ringo may well end up as the longest lived Beatle. "Ringo wasn't all that great" some wags inform me. RAIN and TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS: mic drop.
How about... Please Please Me, Twist and Shout, She Loves You, It Won't Be Long, I Feel Fine, Ticket to Ride, Day Tripper, Tomorrow Never Knows, Rain, A Day In the Life, and the entire Abbey Road album 🎶🥁💪
Accurate story, thanks. Another little moment was when Ringo played at the first recording, George Martin still had the session drummer, Andy White, play on Love Me Do. Ringo was devastated thinking he was already fired. If you listen to the record Ringo is heard playing tambourine. There is another recording with Ringo playing drums.
@@brianparker663 I must disagree. You can find Ringo interviews that confirms he's on tambourine as well as a recent obituary of Andy White saying he played the drums on Love Me Do and the "B" side P.S. I Love You. I have a ver. of Ringo playing drums but there's no tambourine. It may be on the Anthology collection. Never released.
@@robertvaughn6646 You are absolutely correct - I'm not disagreeing. But that was the album take, not the original single take which was phased out in early 1964 - all subsequent represses used the Andy White recording. It's well documented and it's why the Past Masters collection features the Ringo take as originally issued...with no tambourine. I have an original single (I'm that old) bought in 1962 and it is Ringo and there is no tambourine. Hope that clarifies :-)
@@robertvaughn6646 - Sorry to bang on Robert - but this video explains what went on all those years ago when I was a lad...:-) th-cam.com/video/fJf2y8gOQH4/w-d-xo.html
Without question, Ringo was a kick-ass drummer. What created the perception of him not being at the same level as the rest was the recording of his drums. In many songs the drums sound weak, low energy, but that's how they recorded drums back in the day, placing towels over them to mute the sound. This was an excellent documentary, shedding the misperceptions regarding Ringo's true talent. Cheers!
Yeah, the bass was recorded low in the mix as well, which is surprising to us now, since as a beat group, the rhythm section is what drives The Beatles sound.
I think Ringo was always my Fave. I remember I loved his tunes as a kid so much. I really love how dedicated he was in the early days. Thanks for the post. Brilliant.
Ringo really was the glue that kept the Beatles together. While it is unfortunate that Pete Best was let off the way he was, they were never going to be as big as they were, and still are today, if they had kept Pete around, his drumming is just not that good.
Ringo Truly was, and still is an inovated drummer. He was also a (first) for so many beats and ideas that most drummer's use today. Ringo really made 'The Beatles' come to life, he gave them that life, that made them the most famous band of all time. Ringo and Paul still both prove that they took an average band, and made it talk, stand out. Yes, today there are some good drummers about, who come up with some interesting trick's! But back in 1958, Ringo had something special that other drummer's didn't have, the fact and detail of that statement is, Ringo could play bass drum, along with his ability to have the 4 elements working together, creating rhythm section, which other drummers can't do, and still can't do, from what I am witnessing today. Ringo created rhythm, where other drummers can't play straight beat, or count properly, and anticipate timing uniformly. Ringo created it, developed it, could accually play it, and make it happen. I saw an interview with Elvis Presley's first drummer, JD Fontana, he accually had a good tight top end (snare and highhat) combination happening, he was a solid hitter, together, a great rock drummer, is what can be heard, when one listens to early Elvis Recording's, this also carried over into Elvis's live shows, this band, with Elvis playing rhythm guitar, setting the timing, caused a tight drum bass thing (rhythm section) going, allowing Elvis to sing, move, put on a show, which in turn allowed Scotty Moore to play some great Jazz/blues guitar riffs over top, along with the 2 - 3 chord quick change guitar rhythm, and with Elvis's ability to be a good strummer, they created a full sound, for a quartet. Bill Black was a slapper on the bass, (playing a tight percussiony rhythm) but in DJ Fontana's interview, he said when asked about his drumming, how he managed to play and have that full drum sound, he said he never played bass drum at all, ever, because he couldn't, never learn't to. A lot of drummers before that time, in the 50s, didn't play bass drum, the main reason for it, is they couldn't, they couldn't physically do it. Usually in the big band era, bass drum was played by a bass drum player, whoes only job, was to bang the bass drum by hand, or a beater, like they did in the marching bands, who had a bass drum player. So bass drum wasn't there in a lot of 3 piece trios or quartets. Ringo was good at it, he developed it, incorporated it into his playing. JD Fontana couldn't do it. Gene Kruper, and Buddy Rich both could play bass drum, incorporate it into their playing, because drummers like those guys were hard to come by, Ringo probably was listening to drummer's that could play using the whole kit. Ofcourse there are a lot of good drummers out there! but there are a lot of drummers out there that aren't very good, not good at co ordinating or anticipating, and being able to do it, no sense of any talent to acheive it. Pete Best might have been still a learner at the time, if he has kept playing, and we know he has, he is probably very good now. Ringo has still got it! Plus the other adage, is he had a bass player like Paul McCartney with which to play with! how could he go wrong!? Paul's the best ever bass player in the world, the guy is a natural, at everything he plays, his timing is impeccable, he is able to anticipate as he goes, so Ringo's style is a combination of what Paul presents when they played together, it was so good, then, and now. So far in front. . .
“Things fell into place for Ringo.” He’s in a sanitarium with tuberculosis, has to join a gang, but things are going his way with everyone telling him he sucks.
At 72 I'm still fascinated with anything about the Beatles. There have been some great rock bands over the decades but nothing can compare to the Beatles. Four musically talented magicians!
Rory Storm felt that Ringo left him in a lurch. Ringo did Rory a SOLID favor. He did finish out the week, which gave Rory three days to find a drummer. Unfortunately, Rory could NOT find a musician to come to Butlins Holiday Camp in that amount of time. Rory even offered Pete Best, Ringo's old job, but Pete was too upset to play with any other band. Rory ended up hiring an actor with no musical experience to be his new drummer. I got this info from one of Spencer Leigh's books.
It’s great that he did join. He’s a typical Scouse joker (meant with peace and love and I’m half Scouse) and if you look at those early interviews in the US, he’s the cheeky pi**taker who gave the funny answers, triggered that humour in the others and won over the press. The ingredients were there but he was the catalyst for their greatness.
Somebody the other day said that Ringo was a talentless hack who rode the coat tails of George Paul and John to success, and on top of that not even a good drummer. That is complete crap in my book, Ringo's drumming adds an insane amount of feel to the Beatles's sound, I don't think songs like Something, Ticket to Ride, Tomorrow Never Knows or A Day in the Life with anyone else behind the rythym section.
One of my favorite Ringo performances is on "I Feel Fine". It's similar to what the drummer did on Ray Charles' "What I'd Say", but Ringo took it further. There was no other drummer in rock at that time who was bringing it like that, and Pete Best didn't have the chops to come close to something like that. Ringo has no issue switching genres and a song like "Happiness Is A Warm Gun" is constantly going between tempos. I challenge any drummer to take "Here Comes the Sun" and do something better than what Ringo did.
In any band, the rhythm section is what drives their sound. When we think of teams in The Beatles, we think of the songwriting team of John/Paul, but Paul and Ringo were also a team, the rhythm section (bass and drums), and I would argue that this team is more important in explaining the magic of The Beatles sound. (You could also include early John in the rhythm section, since his rhythm guitar had a unique triplet strumming style and his harmonica was also rhythmic.) If anyone doubt that Paul and Ringo were a team, watch Get Back again. When Paul is noodling around on Get Back, Ringo is listening intently and starts tapping his foot once it starts to cohere into a song. Ringo immediately recognizes when the noodling starts to become a song and begins thinking about how he will play it. The most obvious example of their team magic is Come Together, but there are so many others: Rain, Ticket to Ride etc. If you see the film Yesterday, it hinges on the premise that songwriting is all The Beatles were (that a no talent singer-songwriter could find success with their songs, despite the fact that Ed Sheeran, an actual successful singer-songwriter is heavily featured in contrast) and it is galling. The Beatles were a BAND, the four-headed monster as Mick Jagger called them. Yes their songwriting was great, but what made The Beatles stand out was their SOUND. They would take Motown records, add their unique harmonies and merseybeat to them, and no one had heard anything like it. They were a beat group, with the operative word being beat. Ringo is the heart of that sound. That's what makes them The Beatles: John, Paul, George and RINGO. Happy 82nd birthday, Ringo!
A few months shy of 9 years old, late 63...perhaps January of 64, My Sister turned me onto this new sound from England. Forward to 2021, 66 years old, and still a Beatlemaniac. Ringo being my favorite. The boys will always to me be, The Gods of Rock n Roll. And, very good video, thank you for all your "hard?" Work....(seems more like fun).
“How did Ringo end up in ONE of the greatest bands of all time”. Correction: the Beatles were, are and always will be THE greatest musical aggregation to ever have walked this planet.
@@adrian72300 I would stack up the Beatles work with any genre of music of all time. Not to mention the influence they had on Western culture. Which no musical person can touch.
@@shackdaddy7106 They did create a new paradigm in pop music, especially with groups, their influence is undeniable, but as far as arrangements are concerned (don't laugh) Earth,Wind&Fire fused style is also influential in pop music
Thank you for covering this; it's rather different from the version of how Ringo joined the Beatles I had heard before. I always enjoy your music history videos.
Ringo is Main character confirmed
Always has been
i had to slow this guy down to 75% speed. Dude talks wayyy too fast. Hell, i might try him at half speed.
I LOVE that, Vinyl Rewind- “the RingoRun!!”
@@odurandina Don’t have a computer. Watch mine on a phone!! Is there anyway to slow the speed down on a phone?? Yes!! He talked WAY too fast!!!
He should be an unlockable character in the latest Mortal Kombat
I feel like this does a lot to counter the "Ringo is the luckiest person in the world" crap. I had no idea he worked this hard and got along with them so early on!
Anytime someone criticizes Ringo I just make them listen to Ticket To Ride or Come Together. Only Ringo could come up with those beats
There’s an expression, which has been attributed to several sports figures (Lee Trevino being one of them), so no idea who actually said it, but it applies to Ringo: “It’s amazing, but the more I practice, the luckier I get”.
The beatles were the luckiest group to have met ringo
John said very early on that they were lucky to get Ringo , I always loved that he always played what was required to enhance the song, rather than to show off his chops .I always thought the Stones were fortunate to get Charlie Watts for the same reason .
Type in, “The world’s greatest drummers salute Ringo Starr”. It’s a 3 minute vid with people who know know what they’re talking about when it comes to drumming give their verdict on Ringo 🥁
When Ringo left school he couldn't get his Leaving Certificate signed, since he'd been absent through sickness so much the school denied he'd ever been a pupil there.
In 1963, he went back as Guest Of Honour at the school fete and they were charging fans to sit at his school desk. As Ringo said, "They claimed I'd never been there, but somehow they'd found my bloody desk" 😆
Ha! That’s a great story 😂
@@campbellgraham1979 It's in this pretty interesting little video...given how many scousers think Ringo hates Liverpool (because of a few jokes he made, really) it's nice to see him visit a few places from childhood and talk about them...m.th-cam.com/video/Ji6bpPIPScI/w-d-xo.html
@@lucasoheyze4597 I’m an Everton supporter so I visit Liverpool a lot and you wouldn’t believe the amount of scousers I know who don’t just hate Ringo, but The Beatles as a whole.
@@campbellgraham1979 I'm a postman in Toxteth and you're right...but if you quiz them a bit you find they rarely know what they're talking about (and lots of us DO love the guy 😉)
@@campbellgraham1979 60 years later and they STILL hate them??? Man those are some sick hearts and minds.
Not only is he my favourite Beatle, but also my favourite Thomas the Tank Engine narrator.
no way! i should have paid more attention when stoning in front of children tv programmes...
And my favorite caveman.....
@@donmcc6573 Atouk
@@larrylaurence8041 Zug, Zug, Lana.....
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Ringo is the reason the Beatles were so loved. John and Paul knew they needed not only a great drummer, but a larger than life personality too. John, Paul & George all had big personalities and needed someone of the same caliber. Anyone who questions how important Ringo was to the Beatles popularity, I say this. Which Beatle was the main character in A Hard Day's Night, Help, Yellow Submarine and even the Animated Cartoons? That's right! Ringo!
Flip flops
Keep track and
The whole time Ringo got more fan mail than any other Beatle
Ringo.
Just imagine Pete Best as a cartoon character 😆
If there’s one interesting thing to mention, even when they broke up, even when each member was angry at each other. No one, and I mean no one, called Ringo a lousy drummer. When John was calling Paul’s music musak, George and John wanted Ringo on their solo work. Just goes to show how good of a drummer Ringo truly is
All three of them worked with Ringo on his biggest album ("Ringo"), but the four didn't play together.
a more reliable drummer is hard to find... plus he's never overbearing and indulging in horrid drum solo...
@@PIERRECLARY That’s what made Ringo Ringo, he was always for serving the song rather than his ego
Ringo did play on a few of John's early Plastic Ono tracks.
@@PIERRECLARY at least it's not only me that sees all those drum solos for what they are. Terrible noise. The way the fans of such bands listen to such nonsense like 'moby dick' or 'rat salad' (rat salad was a disappointment because I love Bill Ward) and think of it as something good beats me, Ringo's solo in 'The End' is the best I've heard till today, the rest just sounds like monkeys finally bought drums.
Great story. I've read so many Beatle books that it's rare to hear anything new, but you gave some anecdotes I hadn't heard. Nice job man.
Same Here! Thoroughly enjoyed this presentation.
Me too! I thought I'd seen every Pete Best and Ringo Starr video, but this one was worth watching. New material, and beautifully presented.
Some of it is abject nonsense. Don't believe everything you see in a video.
Ringo carried The Beatles even when he was in the background drumming away
He was the backbone and (literally) the backbeat.
Absolutely.
He also carried his drums literally.
@@fifthbeatle oh hey, fancy seeing you here
That’s what a drummer does
Imagine having to load your drums onto a bus every time you played a gig. Ringo's definitely paid his dues.
Ringo is Ringo. He was never the most technical drummer and people trash him for that.
But these people don’t realize that he didn’t need to be a technical drummer.
He plays for the good of the song. He provides the heartbeat. Still to this day the man is all about the pocket, the groove and the feel!
That makes Ringo Starr one of the greatest drummers in rock and roll history.
He has a style & feel that’s extremely hard to copy .
We Need an origin story movie for Ringo now
The hardest working Beatle too . When they recorded he was there , through take after take , whether there was one other Beatle or the whole band . Pre drum machines , he was there all session long . George said when Ringo decided enough , they pulled the session and went home . He clocked more studio hours than any of the others .
I've got blisters on my fingers
@@mikewa2 But only in stereo!
An easy job for "The luckiest guy in the world"? No, he was the hardest working drummer in the world and was handpicked because of that
@@johanpetersson5263 Lennon said they were lucky to get him , Rory Storm and the Hurricanes were a rung higher up the ladder than the Beatles when they poached him . Likewise Charlie Watts and the Stones .
Yep : "dedication and devotion".
Well done finding those early photos of Ringo before he joined The Beatles. So many of them I've never seen before.
exactly...i thought i had seen everything that has been available to the public but was very surprised!! God Bless!!
Ringo joined The Beatles when it was meant to happen.
A lot of people know about Ringo.
In the Beatles, John was the MIND, Paul was the HEART, George was the SOUL, and Ringo was the BODY, the backbeat that kept them together. He is a most UNDERRATED Drummer. There is a recent tribute video to him by this talented young German girl called "Sina" , so check it out here on TH-cam. Other drummers like Dave Grohl have called Ringo "Badass", and Phil Collins has also named him as an inspiration. Listen to some of Ringo's fills in songs like "A Day in the Life", and how he played on countless other Beatles' songs like "Ticket to Ride", "Day Tripper", and even as far back as "Not a Second Time", not to mention some of his early SOLO stuff, especially like "It Don't Come Easy", and "Back off Boogaloo". I have only TWO of the Beatles' autographs, one is Ringo, and the other, believe it or not, is PETE BEST. Can't believe Ringo will soon be 81yrs old. Long Live RINGO!!
Ringo Starr my hero Beatle! 🥁 And my favourite narrator of Thomas And Friends! 🚂
He is the most OVERRATED drummer FFS!
I can't believe I'd never heard that story about Ringo carrying his drums home! Priceless.
Awesome episode
I’d recommend the book Tune inn, it has the complete history of each member .
My next door neighbour (now sadly deceased) was Ringo,s boss in charge of apprenticeships at the engineering company. He said that Ringo to was in a terrible state about what to do about his future. Mr Lewis told him to to go to Hamburg with the band and to tell his parents that he would make sure Ringo could rejoin the company and finish the final year of his apprenticeship if the band situation didn't work out.
He used to have a framed note from "Ritchie" (Ringo) thanking him for his help and advice.
That is so neat, Ringo is a class act always has been. Love hearing stories of people adjacent to the Beatles in any way living or working with them firsthand. Thank you for sharing that.
John Paul George & Pete , just doesn’t have the same ring to it. God bless ya Ringo 🥁.
true! and you offered me the first laugh of the day! merci !
Neither does John, Paul, George and Richard
Be fair, if it was John Paul George and Pete then "and Ringo" would sound weird to us 50+ years later.
@@jb888888888 nah, it's the rhythm of it - you need that second syllable on the last name. Maybe John, Paul, George and Petey...??? Even better, he could have started calling himself Pedro. John, Paul, George and Pedro would've sounded pretty good.
Lol yea. John, Paul George and Pete sounds like something ended abruptly in the end, while Ringo sounds more like there is a continuity. Hence, with Pete, it sounds like the band just stopped progressing, while with Ringo, it sounds more like the band just goes on and on. Altho we know they also disbanded eventually, lol.
One of the greatest bands of all time?!?!?!?!
THE greatest band of all time!!!!
If you're into that whole hyperbole thing, man.
just luckiest
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Luck had very little to do with it. Success is where preparation intersects opportunity. They worked really hard.
@@MeneerHerculePoirot so Pete. around 200 gigs with them, 5-6 hours each.
in parallel univers with no who, zeppelin and queen
Paul said when Ringo sat in with The Beatles in Hamburg they never had to turn around to see if he was in time. They all knew Ringo belonged!
A drummer that can't keep time is soon gone.
My favorite Beatle
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peace and love 😎👍🌟❤️🦏🎶🍒🌈☮️
RIP Paul.
Lovin' that 50s-style man's hi-fi basement lounge
Yeah; that's cool, though to me it looks more '70s.
@@michaelmelling9333 50s, man. You're seeing what looks like "wall-carpeting," which is 70s but that´s actually stone (50s). A Millennial would never know the difference.
Those earth tone colors and the plywood look 70s-ish, but the narrator guy has the 50s look from head to toe...in the 70s, the "wet head" was dead, and everyone was sporting big hair with the Dry Look hairspray...but yea, the whole combo looks great!
I'm a bass player and once helped a guy carry his drums to a rehearsal taking public transportation. I never did that again, it was the middle of winter. Ringo Starr is the most consistently good 👍 player of The 4 Beatles.
drummers truly don't have it easy... apart from piano player i can't thinkof a more cumbersome instrument to lug about
@Topazthecat Paul McCartney is a fine bassist but this story is about Ringo. And I stand by my words. I did not say he was the best musician in the band I said he was the most consistent. He makes few mistakes where the other 3 do.
@Topazthecat why are we having this dumb discussion? Everybody makes mistakes? Am I supposed to name when each Beatles plays or sings a wrong note? I'm a huge Beatles fan but some of you folks think they are God's. They are not. They are human like the rest of us. I'm finished with this. Please stop wasting my time.
Studio staff at Abbey Road Studios, and a study of the session tapes confirm that, if a take "broke down", it was rarely Ringo's fault that it happened. That's a historical fact.
I learned to play the drums listening to Ringo. He is absolutely brilliant. No other drummer could have made such an important contribution to the Fab Four.😘🥁🌻
Thanks for the fascinating video. I loved the old - and rare - photos of the young Ringo.
My esteem for Ringo's talents and contributions to The Beatles music has only grown over the decades I've been listening to them. There's a style and innovation that was unique and of equal importance to what the other members of the band brought to each song. As hard as the decision may have been, he was the absolute right choice for their sound, and success.
This was entertaining from start to finish. I’m a pretty big fan and I hadn’t seen a LOT of these early Ringo photos. Really good scholarship and presented in a highly entertaining way. A+.
Great great GREAT video! Finally, Ringo receives his well-deserved recognition. Thanks Eric!
I love this video and finally someone is making justice for Ringo, there couldn't have been a better drummer for the Beatles
He was awesome, his drum styling is fantastic, yet to be imitated
Ringo is a phenomenal drummer
No. He's barely semi professional by today's standards.
poor Pete, must have been hard watching the lads counquer the world
They made it right when he got paid years later.
Heartbreaking.
And this is another video proving that Pete wasn't as good of a drummer as Ringo was. This video mentioned Ringo playing for 3 bands. He was in demand more than Pete.
@@beatlecristian Yes the Beatles Anthology made Pete a Multi Millionaire. Pete also got a Carlberg Lager Commercial which ran during the Anthology's original run on ABC in America. Not a bad financial haul....
@@jasona9 yeah, do you think they should have paid him sooner?
I thought I knew everything about Ringo before he joined the Beatles. Nice information!
Ringo never seems to age and he's still playing just as well as always.
Pete Best was passable as a drummer (at...best). He probably would have been okay in a bar band, but he just didn't really have the skills to get any further and didn't seem to have the desire to improve.
From what I've heard on the Decca audition when Best was still a member his drumming was very very limited
And the lesson is...follow your passion and don,t listen to your parents if they try to make you live a life you feel uncomfortable with.Otherwise we would have no musicians or other artists....
There was at least 3 record producers that didn't like Pete Best's drumming and George Martin was one of them. The Beatles were also lucky that Ringo was a drummer in their home town of Liverpool.
@@ktcarl you can’t argue that three producers not liking Pete’s drumming is a good enough reason to let him go, of course Pete deny’s this.
@@thekitowl Wut?!?!?! If you can't play in the studio you are out. It was actually 4 producers that didn't like Pete's drumming. That is waaaayyyy good enough reason for Pete getting sacked. th-cam.com/video/jU3a1deif-w/w-d-xo.html
There's a reason record producers have been telling drummers to "play it like Ringo" in recording sessions for decades.
Ringo is a great guy for having to keep a beat behind that ass hole John Lennon for so many years. All praise to Ringo.
The Story of Pete best is so tragic in my opinion.
Only one can imagine how hard it is being cut from the best band in the world, not to mention the Beatles never paid him back, and he spent the most part of the 60’s working at minimum wage jobs.
Never paid him back for what? He did get some notoriety and some albums in the 60s, and he got some Beatles money in the 90s when some recordings with him were used in the Anthology compilation.
He’s a regular on Twitter and certainly never comes across as bitter though, he seems to take a lot of pride in his time in the Beatles.
Yeah, it is sad, but that's the risk of pursuing a career in music. Sometimes it pays off, sometimes it doesn't. Ringo also took that risk when he had to choose between his personal life and his career.
He didn't want to improve with the band, never practiced, never hung out with them, and had absolutely no personality. He was clearly not cut for the Beatle cloth.
@@LeviBulger That's what is "so tragic" in a nutshell. Pete Best didn't try to improve.
Vinyl Rewind this was one of the best if not the best video/information on Ringo’s earlier life straight up to Joining the Beatles. I picked up some info on Ringo’s early schooling/jobs & drumming gig’s I didn’t know before. However as mentioned in one of the below comments that Ringo was one of the luckiest men in the world, partly true but much more to his story as explained in this video. I knew for years as I read by reputable Beatle authors that George was an integral part getting Ringo in the band, he got along well w/George and he fit in with John & Paul too. It amazes me how a lot of Beatles fans don’t know that Ringo didn’t just appear out of nowhere to join them, he was a professional drummer in a good band- sat in w/the Beatles quite a few times in Hamburg & had a rapport with them. His drumming fit the Beatles sound perfectly as mentioned in this video & he could hold down the tempo & beat. Pete Best has his own drumming style & personality it just didn’t fit in w/ the rest of the group. George Martin heard the flaw in Pete’s drumming in their first recording session, which obviously was the out the Beatles needed to fire Pete. The not so big mystery here was the Beatles did not confront Pete themselves about letting him go, they went the managerial route & had Brian Epstein do it. Not the nicest way to go about it- but at that point in their age & career how many others could have done it much differently? As Lennon said & I quote “Ringo was not only a drummer he was a Beatle”. Thanks for this video..
Wow! I thought I knew a lot about the Beatles, but admittedly, I didn't know that much about Ringo's back story. I've never seen a lot of these photos you used too. Great video. I definitely think people have begun to reappraise Ringo and these kinds of videos certainly help the cause. Thank you!
Pete didn't hang out with the band and alienated himself. That's never a good idea, because a band is a family. Plus he had more presence. Pete wasn't a bad drummer, but he didn't have anything special. Getting Ringo was a masterstroke.
In Pete’s autobiography he insisted he had a close friendship with John Lennon. To my knowledge, John never substantiated that.
I recently heard the Decca audition and Pete is terrible.
@@bigmack2262 I agree. That closed hi-hat sound never did much for me - Ringo played with more "pizazz" and that really must have been obvious on the nights when he filled in for Pete. I don't think we'd have the whole Beatles experience without Ringo.
@@jduff59 "the nights when he filled in for Pete"? Both sides have contradicted themselves over the years. The Beatles have portrayed Pete as someone that routinely, and almost deliberately missed gigs. Yet they have been vague on details and dates. In his book, Pete wrote that during his two year tenure he only missed two gigs. Both were lunchtime gigs at the Cavern. Once he had the flu and the second time he had to go to court.
@@bigmack2262 None of the Beatles played particularly well during the Decca audition. Brian picked the set-list to show the bands diversity. They weren't their best live songs.
Love this The adventures of lil Ringo
We are all very blessed to have Ringo still with us.
As always, told with warmth and joy. Thank you.
Even if you know this information before going in, it's worth watching for the production quality alone. Wonderful video!
You should have mentioned that Ringo is left handed and forced to play a right handed drum kit by his grandmother. Also, his son Zak is an amazing drummer who plays with the Who and Oasis plus many more bands. Great video though.
He did mention the left hand bruh
The left handed thing was like the second thing that was mentioned
Maybe watch the video before commenting.
My dad and I are seeing Ringo in May. I've never been to a real concert before, so I'm really excited! I think people see me as another Beatles fangirl, but Ringo genuinely inspired me to drum. My uncle is a drummer too (another inspiration, of course!) and gave me his drum set. It's been collecting dust since I started college and I want to start learning a Beatles song. My uncle said a lot of early Beatles songs are pretty easy, especially Eight Days a Week, so hopefully I'll be able to play a song by the time I see him.
Most of us up here in Canada knew Ringo from the kids show called "Shining Time Station" before The Beatles
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1989 was long after The Beatles
Kids growing up in the 80s in the UK knew him as the narrator of Thomas the Tank Engine
@2v_5r exactly, I didn't know the Beatles until I was ready to seek them out and love and seep in all that music, I wondered why the Conductor was in the Beatles and it kinda made sense when I saw Yellow Submarine
Great post! Being 63 today I grew up as a little boy buying the Beatle's every album. My favorite Christmas back then was when one of my presents was "Beatles '65." I adored their music. But after Rubber Soul I never bought another album.
Thank you so much for putting the effort into making these videos! They're really entertaining!
Great summation of Ringo's story.
With all of that poor health as a child and massive assaults on his body with alcohol and drugs for decades, Ringo may well end up as the longest lived Beatle. "Ringo wasn't all that great" some wags inform me. RAIN and TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS: mic drop.
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How about... Please Please Me, Twist and Shout, She Loves You, It Won't Be Long, I Feel Fine, Ticket to Ride, Day Tripper, Tomorrow Never Knows, Rain, A Day In the Life, and the entire Abbey Road album 🎶🥁💪
The story at the end with the bus and his goats is hysterical. Poor Ringo.
I love these videos, man! I've learnt so much from them while being entertained, it doesn't get better than that! Great job, keep up the good work
Saw Ringo and his All Stars a few years ago. Great performer, great band. Love Ringo!
Accurate story, thanks. Another little moment was when Ringo played at the first recording, George Martin still had the session drummer, Andy White, play on Love Me Do. Ringo was devastated thinking he was already fired. If you listen to the record Ringo is heard playing tambourine. There is another recording with Ringo playing drums.
And it was Ringo's take that was used for the original single release, not White's - so it can't have made much of a difference.
@@brianparker663 I must disagree. You can find Ringo interviews that confirms he's on tambourine as well as a recent obituary of Andy White saying he played the drums on Love Me Do and the "B" side P.S. I Love You. I have a ver. of Ringo playing drums but there's no tambourine. It may be on the Anthology collection. Never released.
@@robertvaughn6646 You are absolutely correct - I'm not disagreeing. But that was the album take, not the original single take which was phased out in early 1964 - all subsequent represses used the Andy White recording. It's well documented and it's why the Past Masters collection features the Ringo take as originally issued...with no tambourine. I have an original single (I'm that old) bought in 1962 and it is Ringo and there is no tambourine. Hope that clarifies :-)
@@robertvaughn6646 - Sorry to bang on Robert - but this video explains what went on all those years ago when I was a lad...:-) th-cam.com/video/fJf2y8gOQH4/w-d-xo.html
@@brianparker663 We're probably the same age. Thanks.
There’s an honesty in simply being able to keep time
And then when Ringo finally got the drum cases to his home, they all rolled back down the hill again.
When I saw the title of this I thought "I know how Ringo became a Beatle", but you went into so many more details. Great video.
That was a great film, I learnt a lot. Cheers sir.
lot's of great old quality pics here!
Without question, Ringo was a kick-ass drummer. What created the perception of him not being at the same level as the rest was the recording of his drums. In many songs the drums sound weak, low energy, but that's how they recorded drums back in the day, placing towels over them to mute the sound. This was an excellent documentary, shedding the misperceptions regarding Ringo's true talent. Cheers!
Yeah, the bass was recorded low in the mix as well, which is surprising to us now, since as a beat group, the rhythm section is what drives The Beatles sound.
Well done! Nicely documented. Especially like the pictures.
This was awesome, the Ringo backstory I've been waiting for!
I think Ringo was always my Fave. I remember I loved his tunes as a kid so much. I really love how dedicated he was in the early days. Thanks for the post. Brilliant.
Great story, thank you.
Once I saw Paul saying "The Beatles only started when Ringo came in".
So glad you're still making videos. I love this channel, thank you for the fantastic content truly
Ringo really was the glue that kept the Beatles together.
While it is unfortunate that Pete Best was let off the way he was, they were never going to be as big as they were, and still are today, if they had kept Pete around, his drumming is just not that good.
They would've been just as big, if not bigger. Pete was by far the most popular Beatle.
@@Cosmo-Kramer deluded.
Ringo Truly was, and still is an inovated drummer.
He was also a (first) for so many beats and ideas that most drummer's use today.
Ringo really made 'The Beatles' come to life, he gave them that life, that made them the most famous band of all time.
Ringo and Paul still both prove that they took an average band, and made it
talk, stand out.
Yes, today there are some good drummers about, who come up with some interesting trick's!
But back in 1958, Ringo had something special that other drummer's didn't have, the fact and detail of that statement is,
Ringo could play bass drum, along with his ability to have the 4 elements working together, creating rhythm section, which other drummers can't do, and still can't do, from what I
am witnessing today.
Ringo created rhythm, where other drummers can't play straight beat, or count properly, and anticipate timing uniformly.
Ringo created it, developed it, could accually play it, and make it happen.
I saw an interview with Elvis Presley's first drummer, JD Fontana, he accually had a good tight top end (snare and highhat) combination happening, he was a solid hitter, together, a great rock drummer, is what can be heard, when one listens to early Elvis Recording's, this also carried over into Elvis's live shows, this band, with Elvis playing rhythm guitar, setting the timing, caused a tight drum bass thing (rhythm section) going, allowing Elvis to sing, move, put on a show, which in turn allowed Scotty Moore to play some great Jazz/blues guitar riffs over top, along with the 2 - 3 chord quick change guitar rhythm, and with Elvis's ability to be a good strummer, they created a full sound, for a quartet.
Bill Black was a slapper on the bass, (playing a tight percussiony rhythm) but in DJ Fontana's interview, he said when asked about his drumming, how he managed to play and have that full drum sound, he said he never played bass drum at all, ever, because he couldn't, never learn't to.
A lot of drummers before that time, in the 50s, didn't play bass drum, the main reason for it, is they couldn't, they couldn't physically do it.
Usually in the big band era, bass drum was played by a bass drum player, whoes only job, was to bang the bass drum by hand, or a beater, like they did in the marching bands, who had a bass drum player.
So bass drum wasn't there in a lot of 3 piece trios or quartets.
Ringo was good at it, he developed it, incorporated it into his playing.
JD Fontana couldn't do it.
Gene Kruper, and Buddy Rich both could play bass drum, incorporate it into their playing, because drummers like those guys were hard to come by,
Ringo probably was listening to drummer's that could play using the whole kit.
Ofcourse there are a lot of good drummers out there! but there are a lot of drummers out there that aren't very good, not good at co ordinating or anticipating, and being able to do it, no sense of any talent to acheive it.
Pete Best might have been still a learner at the time, if he has kept playing, and we know he has, he is probably very good now.
Ringo has still got it!
Plus the other adage, is he had a bass player like Paul McCartney with which to play with! how could he go wrong!? Paul's the best ever bass player in the world, the guy is a natural, at everything he plays, his timing is impeccable, he is able to anticipate as he goes, so Ringo's style is a combination of what Paul presents when they played together, it was so good, then, and now.
So far in front. . .
Even after the beatles breakup, Pete Best and Ringo Starr are still alive.
Thanks SO MUCH for this information!
Really interesting, man!
Never forget all the great music and only together for 8 years.
I know a lot of stuff about the Beatles. I didn't know 95% of the stuff talked about here.
Great vid!
Yes, the question should always be framed this way:
"Why did Liverpool's best drummer decide to join the Beatles when they asked him?"
He was better than the Best drummer in The Beatles, and a Starr was born.
The video spells out quite clearly why Ringo accepted the Beatles' offer. Were you sleeping?
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I did see that.
It's clear that you were sleeping when you read my comment.
I have been a Beatle fan for over 50 years, but learned more about Ringo in this brief history than anything I ever knew before. Thanks for posting.
Now you gotta do one about Stuart Sutcliffe.
Gotta love Stu
Ringo Sutcliffe
this video is fantastic, thanks!
“Things fell into place for Ringo.” He’s in a sanitarium with tuberculosis, has to join a gang, but things are going his way with everyone telling him he sucks.
At 72 I'm still fascinated with anything about the Beatles. There have been some great rock bands over the decades but nothing can compare to the Beatles. Four musically talented magicians!
One of them spent half an hour looking for the sugar, talk about your magical mystery’s.
You did an awesome job covering Ringo!!
El Ringo.
Paul claims that Ringo's car was possibly stolen or fell off the back of a showroom. I wonder how The Hurricanes felt about losing Ringo? Great video.
Rory Storm felt that Ringo left him in a lurch. Ringo did Rory a SOLID favor. He did finish out the week, which gave Rory three days to find a drummer. Unfortunately, Rory could NOT find a musician to come to Butlins Holiday Camp in that amount of time. Rory even offered Pete Best, Ringo's old job, but Pete was too upset to play with any other band. Rory ended up hiring an actor with no musical experience to be his new drummer. I got this info from one of Spencer Leigh's books.
@@jasona9 Thanks mate.
Never knew that Ringo was engaged that early. Wonderful video!!! ✌💙
This video is an absolute must of understanding the Beatles as a true fan (Lived in London 1962-63) :-)
all of a sudden i want a ringo starr biopic
if Keith Moon had been the Beatles drummer they would have been a garage band, Ringo's perfect . Why the post mortems?
Vinyl rewind unironically one of the best music channels on TH-cam
“RINGO FOREVER,PETE BEST NEVER!!!!” “THE BEATLES!!!!”🎸🥁🎤🎧🤑🔥🎯💯👍🏼✌️
Ringo's life story is one of the happiest stories in human history.
It’s great that he did join. He’s a typical Scouse joker (meant with peace and love and I’m half Scouse) and if you look at those early interviews in the US, he’s the cheeky pi**taker who gave the funny answers, triggered that humour in the others and won over the press. The ingredients were there but he was the catalyst for their greatness.
Aw i love ringo even more! Great video and i appreciate the visuals while the narration really informative!
Somebody the other day said that Ringo was a talentless hack who rode the coat tails of George Paul and John to success, and on top of that not even a good drummer. That is complete crap in my book, Ringo's drumming adds an insane amount of feel to the Beatles's sound, I don't think songs like Something, Ticket to Ride, Tomorrow Never Knows or A Day in the Life with anyone else behind the rythym section.
Ringo’s strength was how he supported the music, and didn’t try to overshadow it.
One of my favorite Ringo performances is on "I Feel Fine". It's similar to what the drummer did on Ray Charles' "What I'd Say", but Ringo took it further. There was no other drummer in rock at that time who was bringing it like that, and Pete Best didn't have the chops to come close to something like that. Ringo has no issue switching genres and a song like "Happiness Is A Warm Gun" is constantly going between tempos. I challenge any drummer to take "Here Comes the Sun" and do something better than what Ringo did.
In any band, the rhythm section is what drives their sound. When we think of teams in The Beatles, we think of the songwriting team of John/Paul, but Paul and Ringo were also a team, the rhythm section (bass and drums), and I would argue that this team is more important in explaining the magic of The Beatles sound. (You could also include early John in the rhythm section, since his rhythm guitar had a unique triplet strumming style and his harmonica was also rhythmic.)
If anyone doubt that Paul and Ringo were a team, watch Get Back again. When Paul is noodling around on Get Back, Ringo is listening intently and starts tapping his foot once it starts to cohere into a song. Ringo immediately recognizes when the noodling starts to become a song and begins thinking about how he will play it. The most obvious example of their team magic is Come Together, but there are so many others: Rain, Ticket to Ride etc.
If you see the film Yesterday, it hinges on the premise that songwriting is all The Beatles were (that a no talent singer-songwriter could find success with their songs, despite the fact that Ed Sheeran, an actual successful singer-songwriter is heavily featured in contrast) and it is galling. The Beatles were a BAND, the four-headed monster as Mick Jagger called them. Yes their songwriting was great, but what made The Beatles stand out was their SOUND. They would take Motown records, add their unique harmonies and merseybeat to them, and no one had heard anything like it. They were a beat group, with the operative word being beat. Ringo is the heart of that sound. That's what makes them The Beatles: John, Paul, George and RINGO.
Happy 82nd birthday, Ringo!
One of your best videos. Great work, always appreciated, thank you.
Ringo is ALL man, tough & BRILLIANT. The band was Now complete with Ringo. Best deal Ever!!!😎😘😉
You did a great job telling the story thoroughly, accurately and efficiently. I've read about 60 books on the Beatles, but learned a few details.
Some brilliant photo's here of a young Ringo.
12:30 Could have added the anonymous session musician to the band full time then.
I kid, I kid.
A few months shy of 9 years old, late 63...perhaps January of 64, My Sister turned me onto this new sound from England. Forward to 2021, 66 years old, and still a Beatlemaniac. Ringo being my favorite. The boys will always to me be, The Gods of Rock n Roll. And, very good video, thank you for all your "hard?" Work....(seems more like fun).
“How did Ringo end up in ONE of the greatest bands of all time”. Correction: the Beatles were, are and always will be THE greatest musical aggregation to ever have walked this planet.
Subjective opinion
@@adrian72300 Definitely a subjective opinion. A subjective opinion based on over 60 years of knowledge and facts.
@@shackdaddy7106 Who are you comparing their arrangements with? all genres of band music? what span of time?
@@adrian72300 I would stack up the Beatles work with any genre of music of all time. Not to mention the influence they had on Western culture. Which no musical person can touch.
@@shackdaddy7106 They did create a new paradigm in pop music, especially with groups, their influence is undeniable, but as far as arrangements are concerned (don't laugh) Earth,Wind&Fire fused style is also influential in pop music
Thank you for covering this; it's rather different from the version of how Ringo joined the Beatles I had heard before. I always enjoy your music history videos.
I had never seen a photo of his dad before. Ringo looks just like him. Thank you for posting. 💕
Ringo: most creative drummer of the 20th Century.