rdfs:comment | - This account is taken from Ringo's autobiography, A Born Lever-puller: In the mid-1960s, Ringo Starr was broke. Years of frivolous spending had come to its logical conclusion, as Ringo spent all his remaining money on a giant anthropomorphic train set. Even Pete Best had more money than Ringo (but, admittedly, no train set). Then, when things looked their darkest, in came a rescue for Ringo's money problems. The rest of the Beatles agreed to do another band album with Ringo provided he would leave their front yards.
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abstract | - This account is taken from Ringo's autobiography, A Born Lever-puller: In the mid-1960s, Ringo Starr was broke. Years of frivolous spending had come to its logical conclusion, as Ringo spent all his remaining money on a giant anthropomorphic train set. Even Pete Best had more money than Ringo (but, admittedly, no train set). Then, when things looked their darkest, in came a rescue for Ringo's money problems. The rest of the Beatles agreed to do another band album with Ringo provided he would leave their front yards. Most of the songs on this album are previously unrecorded early Beatles songs, but some songs like McCartney's "I'll Never Go to Japan Again" and Harrison's "My Rich Clapton" were written just for this album. Even John Lennon, then blindly in love with Yoko Ono, contributed to the album with "The Ballad of Richard Starkey". This song was written during one fateful week when John Lennon felt like writing songs about people and calling them ballads. Starr was reported as wanting to put "The Ballad of Paul McCartney" on the album, but McCartney refused since most of the song's lyrical content focused on calling him a pussy. Despite the hardship, the band seemed to be knitting itself back together again from the calamity that was Revolver. Unfortunately, cruel fate would intervene.
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