So Ringo’s talent would have come out one way or the other as something or other.
#Ringo starr drumming professional#
He was a professional drummer who sang and performed and had Ringo Starr-time, and he was in one of the top groups in Britain but especially in Liverpool before we even had a drummer.
LENNON: “Ringo was a star in his own right in Liverpool before we even met. In the famous Playboy interview conducted just a few months before his murder in 1980, for example, Lennon responded as follows when asked for his opinion of Ringo’s musicianship: It’s unlikely Lennon would ever have said such a thing and meant it seriously, as he - along with the other Beatles - typically spoke fondly and positively of Ringo, both as a person and as a drummer. Proponents of the latter viewpoint often cited a purported quote from John Lennon himself in which Lennon supposedly scoffed at the notion of Ringo as the best drummer of all time, quipping: “The best drummer in the world? Ringo wasn’t even the best drummer in the Beatles!” In the “best instrumentalist” category, arguments over Ringo Starr’s drumming prowess were often polarized between two camps: those who believed Ringo to be one of the best rock drummers ever, and those who viewed him as an ordinary talent (at best) who lucked out in being tapped to join a group of three vastly superior musicians.