Fact #101247
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Short story:
Ringo Starr of The Beatles begins recording his solo album Sentimental Journey at Abbey Road studios, London, England, UK, Europe, with producer George Martin.
Full article:
Quincy Jones (record producer) : We were in the studio with (Beatles producer) George Martin and Ringo had taken three hours for a four-bar thing he was trying to fix on a song (Love Is A Many Splendoured Thing). He couldn’t get it. We said, 'Mate, why don’t you get some lager and lime, some shepherd’s pie and take an hour and a half and relax a little bit?' So he did, and we called Ronnie Verrell, a jazz drummer.
Ronnie came in for 15 minutes and tore it up. Ringo comes back and says, 'George, can you play it back for me one more time?' So George did, and Ringo says, 'That didn’t sound so bad'. And I said, 'Yeah, motherf**ker, because it ain’t you'.
(Source : interview with Vulture, 2018)
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Ronnie came in for 15 minutes and tore it up. Ringo comes back and says, 'George, can you play it back for me one more time?' So George did, and Ringo says, 'That didn’t sound so bad'. And I said, 'Yeah, motherf**ker, because it ain’t you'.
(Source : interview with Vulture, 2018)