Ringo Starr

“I think Ringo Starr played a major role in most of the Beatles songs not only because of his unique drum beat and charisma but his natural talent as a drummer.”

“best drummer ever, revolutionized drumming”

“He is definitely underrated because he was never flashy. He held a perfect beat and added the right touch and subtlety to some of the best songs ever waxed.”

“Ringo is the best drummmer of all time, he should be number one”

“Phil Collins (who has always been a big Beatles fan since he was 13 years old in the audience of The Beatles concert in their great film A Hard Day's Night in 1994 he hosted The Making Of A Hard Day's Night and said how great their music was in this film and along with Pete Townsend played on 2 songs on Paul McCartney's 1986 Press To Play album) and Max Weinberge praise Ringo's drumming and musician and song writer Peter Cross in his excellent online article,The Beatles Are The Most Creative Band Of All Time, says that Ringo might be underrated by the public but he's not by most professional drummers and that he perfected the art of drum sounds and he said no drummer has ever recorded so many different sounds on so many different sounding records. He also says that Ringo invented a new style of slow drum playing epitomized on A Day In The Life and Strawberry Fields Forever. He also said that John said many times that Ringo has the best back beat in the business and he said and the professional studio drummers understand why John was correct. Phil Collins has said that he can't duplicate Ringo's great drumming on A Day In The Life and George Martin said that Ringo always had a great ear and feel for a song and that it was his idea to play the tom toms on A Day In The Life giving the song a disctintive percussion sound. Also in Mark Lewisohn's excellent detailed Beatles music diary,The Beatles Recording Sessions,he explains that in the 100's of recorded takes The Beatles did for over 100 of their great songs Ringo rarely ever made a mistake that stopped the tapes from running and he said his drumming was excellent and consistent from 1962-1970! His drumming has also been pointed out as great on Tomorrow Never Knows,She Said She Said,Rain(which he says is his best drumming ever)and Abbey Road.His drumming is also very good on a very early Beatles song,Thank You Girl especially towards the end. Also, when The Beatles got Ringo to join The Beatles he was in no way an inexperienced drummer,he was already playing for one of the top successful Liverpool bands,Rory Storm and The Huricanes for seceral years when they got him.And George Martin didn't think Pete Best was a good enough drummer and that Ringo was much better and The Beatles agreed.”

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