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For being in one of the biggest bands in the world, Ringo Starr<\/a> seemed to be the only person who didn\u2019t have the same sheen as the rest of The Beatles.\u00a0<\/p>\n He was one of the greatest drummers that the world had ever seen, but when you look at the number of songs he actually wrote, it\u2019s not like he was going to be anywhere near the same level as John Lennon and Paul McCartney once he ventured into his solo career. You could say that he needed a little help from his friends, but even with the biggest names in music by his side, sometimes his records were dead on arrival before they even dropped.<\/p>\n Then again, there\u2019s a certain curve that Starr tends to be judged on compared to his old bandmates. Everyone understands that he probably isn\u2019t going to have a record as big as \u2018Maybe I\u2019m Amazed\u2019 under his belt, and while no one is necessarily asking him to become one of the biggest names in music all over again, they could at least appreciate it when Starr turned every one of his albums into a party every single time his friends like Lennon and George Harrison stopped by.<\/p>\n Goodnight Vienna and Ringo weren\u2019t absolute knockouts from back to front, but for anyone looking to catch even a whiff of that Fab magic, this was about as close as they were going to get at the time. But it seemed like the further we moved away from the band\u2019s final days, the less likely it seemed that Starr was going to be an all-out superstar. But we also could have done without some of the more forgettable parts of his career as well.<\/p>\n Or at least the parts that we don\u2019t want to remember. Because as much as people might like to laugh at albums like Harrison\u2019s Gone Troppo<\/a> or McCartney\u2019s Give My Regards to Broad Street, it seemed like Starr\u2019s career officially stalled the minute that he began making records without his friends. Ringo the 4th could have been the record that got him back in everyone\u2019s good graces by going disco, but the fact that the whole thing was a shitshow, Starr\u2019s career never really recovered.<\/p>\n And when I say never recovered, I do mean it. Yes, he still tours and makes the rounds around the world with that peace and love mantra, but he never seemed to trouble the charts all that much, and even when he made records that were great like Time Takes Time, they tended to fade into the background compared to what his bandmates were doing. But if a record like Bad Boy was looked at as a disaster, Old Wave was the point where even America didn\u2019t have time for the drummer anymore.<\/p>\n