Ringo Starr detailed why he decided to walk out on the band at one point?
The Beatles’ chaotic dynamics just came to light.
When the iconic rock band’s conflict and splits are discussed, it ranges from various incidents like John Lennon’s surprise exit, Paul McCartney’s final walkout as well as George Harrison’s shocking and savage final line, “See you around the clubs.”
However, the band’s drummer, Ringo Starr, who usually seems to become invisible amongst the other three members also had his own breaking point despite wanting to make The Beatles work.
His conflict come when the band was recording White Album, a time where the legendary bassist, McCartney himself admitted that it “was a lot of friction during that album. We were just about to break up, and that was tense in itself.”
“The break-up of The Beatles can be heard on that album,” he added.
Ringo Starr was absent from the tracks and other members had to take over drums because he had walked out on them early in the morning of the first day.
“I left because I felt two things: I felt I wasn’t playing great, and I also felt that the other three were really happy and I was an outsider,” Starr said of his exit.
Additionally, the other three adjusted to his absence quite immediately, completing the track without him, may have just added to Starr feeling left out.
However he showed up to Lennon’s house to talk through the problem where an epiphany struck the members, as Ringo Starr recalled.
“I said, ‘I’m leaving the group because I’m not playing well and I feel unloved and out of it,and you three are really close’”,the drummer recalled, but to his surprise, Lennon felt the same as he explained, “And John said, ‘I thought it was you three!’”