“With John and George not here, I think we realize nothing lasts forever,” McCartney, 83, told The New York Times in a recent interview for a profile on Starr, 84. “So we grasp onto what we have now because we realize that it’s very special. It’s something hardly anyone else has. In fact, in our case, it’s something no one else has. There’s only me and Ringo, and we’re the only people who can share those memories.”
“He was a fantastic drummer,” McCartney gushed in the profile. “We asked him if he would be in our band, and luckily for us he agreed.” Starr joined the band in 1962 after original drummer Pete Best was axed by the group’s beloved manager Brian Epstein so they could try to snag Starr from his successful group Rory Storm and the Hurricanes.
14th October 1963: The other Beatles, from left to right: George Harrison (1943 - 2001), John Lennon (1940 - 1980) and Paul McCartney, stare in disbelief at the plastic spider perched on drummer Ringo Starr's nose, backstage after their Sunday Night at the London Palladium show. (Photo by Peter Hall/Keystone/Getty Images)Peter Hall/Keystone/Getty Images
He ended up leaning toward comedy in his tracks, which are some of the most fun of the group’s output. “I’d say, ‘I’ve got this song.’ And halfway through they’d all be laying on the floor laughing,” Starr recalled in the interview. “Because I wasn’t writing new songs. I was writing new words to old songs.” McCartney added, “We’d say, 'Yeah, that’s a great one. That’s a great Bob Dylan song.'”
Lennon was murdered in 1980 at age 40 and Harrison died from cancer in 2001 at age 58. The Beatles kicked off as a band in 1960 and broke up by the end of the decade in 1970.
“It’s the most ludicrous and funny argument that, you know, you had these three talented singer-songwriters up front, and then you had the guy who got lucky,” Weinberg — a member of The E Street Band who was also Conan O'Brien’s bandleader on Late Night — said. “That was so far from the case, if you really go back and talk to people who were in that scene. To get Ringo in what became The Beatles was a coup for the three of them.”
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