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A lot of the greatest moments Ringo Starr<\/a> ever had in The Beatles are so subtle that it\u2019s easy to miss them.\u00a0<\/p>\n While many people dismiss Starr as the least talented member of the band who got the role of a lifetime playing the drums, a lot of what he was doing was about more than simply keeping time. He was the beating heart of the band, and while he could never be replaced in the Fab Four, George Martin knew that there were some people that could completely smoke the drummer if they were playing together.<\/p>\n Then again, even Starr never rated himself as the greatest drummer in the world. He was never one to show a lot of flash whenever he played, but if the song called for it, he could manage to fly off the handle at the right time, like the final verse of \u2018Long Tall Sally\u2019 or banging the life out of his cymbals during \u2018Helter Skelter\u2019. If it was right for the song, he played it, but it wasn\u2019t in his character to play too fiercely like John Bonham or anything.<\/p>\n He certainly had friends in the business that could throw some crazy shapes at their respective bands like Keith Moon, but Starr was the epitome of a \u2018songwriter drummer\u2019. What he did wasn\u2019t technical, but the drum parts that he came up with for the Beatles\u2019 classics were so good that you could practically sing along to them. If he wanted to, though, Starr could have gone in a much different direction.<\/p>\n Because while Martin was interested in bringing every one of the Fab Four\u2019s ideas to life, he wasn\u2019t about to stop at making simple pop songs. His arrangements were about pushing the boundaries of rock and roll, and when working with everyone from Jeff Beck<\/a> to the Mahavishnu Orchestra, he got a decent education of what rock could be if they decided to push the music forward a little bit more.<\/p>\n You have to remember that the world of fusion was right around the corner when The Beatles broke up, and even if bands like Weather Report or U.K. weren\u2019t going to have the same major hits as the solo Beatles were going to have, the session scene was becoming a who\u2019s who of legends. So when seeing what the jazzy drummers were doing in a band like Steely Dan, Martin thought that Starr would have never fit in with them.<\/p>\n