During an appearance on AXS TV. The Beatles drummer Ringo Starr looked back on the Fab Four, his bandmates, Eagles guitarist Joe Walsh, and more.
"When the four of us played, it was just the best space on the planet to be in. Besides being famous, I was in all of those spaces, with the joy of playing with John [Lennon], George [Harrison], and Paul [McCartney].
"I have great memories of that, and the emotion of all of that. The other side of that story was that we worked really hard.
"The other side of that is - I was telling someone the other day - if Paul hadn't been in the band, we'd probably have made two albums because we were lazy buggers.
"But Paul's a workaholic. John and I would be sitting in the garden taking in the color green from the tree, and the phone would ring, and we would know, 'Hey lads, you want to come in? Let's go in the studio!'
"So I've told Paul this, he knows this story, we made three times more music than we ever would without him because he's the workaholic and he loves to get going. Once we got there, we loved it, of course, but, 'Oh no, not again!'" -
The rock legend also went on to speak about how they were able to remain humble throughout their career and the time the fab four met Elvis.
“I think its all part of where we came from. I always give credit that there was four of us all from the same city and we would look at each other, you know one of us would be freaking out or being a big shot and three other people would go ‘Excuse me’ and that kept us straight,” he told Rather.
He continued: “You know it’s interesting because the time we met Elvis, I really thought ‘How sad that he’s on his own’. He had all those people around but he was on his own. I had three great mates.”
The Beatles are the biggest selling band of all time, selling over 500 million records. Throughout the span of their career, the have released 12 studio albums (17 in the US), 5 live albums, 51 compilation albums, 36 extended plays (EPs), 63 singles, 17 box sets, 22 video albums and 53 music videos.
