I really thought this was going to be about Ringo. For a period of time after the Beatles had officially split up, there were reports/rumors that one of the issues was John’s low opinion of Ringo’s playing. Could have been pure speculation.
Supposedly, when John Lennon was asked if Starr was the best drummer in the world he replied, “The best drummer in the world? Ringo wasn’t even the best drummer in the Beatles!” [Referring to the fact Paul McCartney played drums on a few tracks] But Lennon didn’t actually say this.
The decision to go with Ringo paid off very handsomely for the other three members of the band. In a manner of speaking, Ringo was kind of handicapped, playing as a left-handed player on a right-handed drum set. But he had a lot of talent and creativity, which shone forth or shone out from within these “bounds”. He ended up becoming a magnificent groove drummer, displaying his
inner creativity and ear for rhythm one by one across 300 or so Beatles songs over about 6-7 years, always responding to the material he was presented with by laying down that recognizable but never boring Ringo groove.
George and Ringo admitted that they never really practiced much between recording sessions. They just kind of moved forward based on their large respective gifts of innate musical talent, responding to what was presented to them by John and Paul when called upon to do so. The latter two, enormous talents in their own rights, kept cranking out great material/hits. The formula worked very well for most of a decade, so each of the four Beatles had to have been really brimming with talent and performance chops. I for one no longer give any credence to those who wish to intimate that Ringo was not “all that”.