Ringo's brilliance was in his timing, which was impeccable. He knew how to lay down a backbeat and then get out of the way. The nature of John, Paul, and George REQUIRED them to find a drummer that was reliable yet unobtrusive. Ringo was certainly all that and Pete Best was not. But even George Martin was unconvinced about Ringo's skills when he first met him and he hired a studio drummer to play with The Beatles when they recorded Love Me Do and P.S. I Love You.
I guess it's easy to overlook intangibles.
My favorite Ringo examples are Drive My Car, Ticket to Ride, and Rain. I had a drummer tell me once that Ringo practically invented heavy metal drumming on Ticket to Ride.
And nobody plays a tom solo like Ringo....
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