Why didn't Ringo Starr write more songs for The Beatles?
The Beatles’ songwriters were John Lennon and Paul McCartney in the Lennon-McCartney partnership. This is well known, yet George Harrison and Ringo Starr also wanted some of the action as the band’s popularity grew. Sadly, it did not come, especially in the case of Sir Ringo, who barely had any tunes on The Beatles’ records.
One of the reasons, as Sir Paul McCartney has admitted to, is that the group did not take Sir Ringo’s songs very ‘seriously.’
Sir Paul and George Harrison grew up together, then joined up with John Lennon as teenagers, so there was a tight bond with them.
Sir Ringo joined the band later and has spoken of how he felt like an ‘outsider’ in the group.
He even left the band temporarily because of this feeling, later recalling in Anthology: “I left because I felt two things: I felt I wasn’t playing great, and I also felt that the other three were really happy and I was an outsider.
Source: Jenny Desborough/Jenny Desborough
