Ringo Starr Is Wrong About The Beatles' 'Love Me Do'
Ringo Starr said some things about The Beatles' "Love Me Do" that are just plain wrong. His comments don't make sense in light of his career.
Sometimes, classic rock stars don’t understand their own work. Ringo Starr said some things about The Beatles’ “Love Me Do” that are just plain wrong. His comments don’t make sense in light of The Beatles’ career or Ringo’s career as a solo artist.
Ringo Starr said The Beatles’ ‘Love Me Do’ is his defining song. During a 2023 interview with Vulture, Ringo was asked to name the defining song of his career. “Because it was the first song, my answer is ‘Love Me Do,'” he said. “We were on vinyl. We made a record.
“Even though when I got to the studio, George Martin had a session guy for the drums, Andy White, but I played on it anyway,” the “Photograph” singer added. “He played it, I played it — he’s on the album, I think, and I’m on the single, so go figure. We were just blessed that George Martin took a chance on us because many record labels sent us down. But the fun was the fact that we were still touring. And only the BBC was playing the song. It would say, ‘Oh, at 3:14 p.m., this song will be on the BBC.’ So we’d all pull over and think, ‘Wow, we’re on the radio.’ I mean, it was a really big moment. It was magic because we were on this piece of vinyl all to ourselves.”
Ringo opined that the Fab Four made many fabulous tracks after “Love Me Do.” However, that tune would always be important to him because it was his first. He seemed proud that The Beatles wrote many songs without being able to read music.
Source: Matthew Trzcinski/cheatsheet.com
