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When talking about the rise of The Beatles, it\u2019s easy to forget about the kind of impact Ringo Starr<\/a> has had. <\/p>\n No, he might not have been gifted with the greatest songwriting chops in the world, but his internal sense of rhythm when playing all of their songs always put him one notch above every other drummer in his field. He wanted to make the song leap out of the speakers every single time he got behind the kit, but even after the band parted ways, Starr was going to get by with a little help from his friends no matter what.<\/p>\n Because, for as much as the band may have needed some space away from each other, Starr was always the lovable one who could always find time to jam with them. It was going to be a little bit more difficult to make amends with Paul McCartney after Starr was kicked out of his house for sending him a message on behalf of the other Beatles, but that didn\u2019t mean that he couldn\u2019t still find time to work with his old friends.<\/p>\n After all, George Harrison was always the one who helped him get his songs off the ground in the first place. \u2018It Don\u2019t Come Easy\u2019 and \u2018Photograph\u2019 wouldn\u2019t have existed if not for Harrison adding his signature touch to those chords, and even when making the Concert For Bangladesh, Starr wasn\u2019t going to miss out on the chance to play with some of the biggest names in music like Leon Russell and Bob Dylan.<\/p>\n But John Lennon was a much different story. Given how limited he was as a guitar player, he was never the kind who could simply jam with anyone and see what happens. His strong suit was always in songwriting, and if he was going through primal therapy to help deal with his inner demons, he was going to need just the right musicians to help fill out the songs that ended up on Plastic Ono Band.\u00a0<\/p>\n And while Starr was giving the initial pulse of every tune, having Klaus Voorman round out the trio made for one of the most barebones albums that any ex-Beatle had ever made. It didn\u2019t have the same sense of majesty that All Things Must Pass<\/a> and wasn\u2019t exactly homemade in the same way McCartney was, but with nothing else to hide behind, people could really focus on the songs before anything else, whether that was the screaming of \u2018Mother\u2019, the sombre tone of \u2018Working Class Hero\u2019 or even the final nail in the coffin of The Beatles\u2019 career at the end of \u2018God\u2019.<\/p>\n