There's a peculiar sort of snobbery that follows Ringo Starr like a shadow - this notion that somehow, by some cosmic accident, an average drummer landed the greatest gig in rock and roll history. It's utter rubbish, of course. What these musical pedants fail to grasp is that Ringo wasn't just a drummer - he was the drummer, the precise rhythmic archite…
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