'Abbey Road': Ringo Starr 'Shied Away' From His Drum Solo on The Beatles' Final Studio Album
One of the highlights of The Beatles‘ album Abbey Road was the drum solo Ringo Starr performed on the collection’s medley.
It was the only recorded drum solo Starr would provide The Beatles, and he did it grudgingly. Here’s why.
While the band was recording what’s come to be known as their “White Album” in 1968, the drummer hit a symbolic wall within the group. Feeling left out and, as he has said, a little flipped out by Yoko Ono’s constant presence in the recording studio, Starr took his leave. It was temporary, of course, but necessary, as Michael Seth Starr (no relation to Ringo) wrote in his biography of the drummer, Ringo: With a Little Help.
“Even Ringo had his limits, and he reached his boiling point on August 22,” Starr wrote. “Frustrated with the in-fighting, the mixed signals, and his own drumming – and ‘freaked out’ by Yoko Ono’s immutable presence – he walked out, quitting the band.”
Source: cheatsheet.com
