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There comes a point in every rock and roll fan\u2019s life where The Beatles cease to feel like people. As much as they have presented themselves as the lovable lads from Liverpool, there was always some magic behind the way that they communicated in the studio that can\u2019t be trained by human hands. It only comes from great chemistry together, and Ringo Starr<\/a> never took a second of that for granted whenever he got behind the drum kit.\u00a0<\/p>\n Then again, people often like to chide Starr for being the \u201cleast of the best\u201d in some respects, and it\u2019s not hard to see why. He didn\u2019t write nearly as many songs as the rest of the group and never had the kind of ambitions of Paul McCartney or the literary wisdom of John Lennon, and yet if you remove him from the equation, the band would have ceased to exist before they got off the ground.<\/p>\n It only takes one listen to the version of the band with Pete Best to know that they weren\u2019t gelling properly. They were still a great bar band, but Starr always had a sixth sense to see where the song was going before the rest of the group, whether that was doing covers of old Ray Charles tunes or getting a feel for what the drums should be on a song before Lennon or McCartney were even finished.<\/p>\n That didn\u2019t mean that some songs came without a fight. He had to work tooth and nail to get the rhythmic accents right for \u2018Here Comes the Sun\u2019<\/a>, and there was the occasional song that defeated him, like \u2018Back in the USSR\u2019, but as soon as everyone locked in on a groove when the count-in came in, everything felt right with the world again.<\/p>\n Granted, you wouldn\u2019t have said that towards the end of the band\u2019s run in the late 1960s. They were falling apart at the seams when putting the Get Back project together, and by the time they had officially drifted apart in the early 1970s, the last thing any of them wanted to do was go on another press tour with each other or, worse yet, a courtroom where they would hash out their business bullshit. If they were going to go out, they would do it right, and Starr couldn\u2019t have been happier working on tunes like \u2018Come Together\u2019.<\/p>\n