Paul McCartney's nine word message to Ringo Starr after final Beatles concert
The final days of The Beatles saw relations between the band tested. After they retired from touring in 1966, the band focused their attention on producing innovative music in the studio, beginning with their seminal 1967 record 'Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band', which captured the zeitgeist and reinvented popular music.
That album's follow up, 1968's 'The White Album' was marked by disagreements. Its sessions were notoriously tempestuous. About that period of recording, Paul McCartney said: "There was a lot of friction during that album. We were just about to break up, and that was tense in itself". John Lennon later added: "The break-up of The Beatles can be heard on that album."
The recording of 'The White Album' saw Ringo Starr briefly walk out of the band. It was during the recording of the song 'Back in the USSR' and the Dingle native was said to have grown tired of the mood in the camp and criticism of his drumming.
Source: uk.news.yahoo.com/Dan Haygarth
