"The Worst Session" The Beatles Song Ringo Starr Hated | News
The latter years of The Beatles have become an arena for debate once more. Where fan lore previously held that 1969 to their dissolution was a fractured period, of endless in-group inter-fighting, Get Back has shown that actually, things weren’t so bad at times. Yet one song remains beyond the pale for Ringo Starr – ‘Abbey Road’ knockabout ‘Maxwell’s Silver Hammer’.
A Paul McCartney endeavour that matches music hall aspects against then groundbreaking technology, it took a number of sessions before the songwriter was entirely happy with it. Sadly, the studio grind took its toll on the rest of the group.
Ringo Starr, for example, was left exhausted by his bandmate’s perfectionism. In a 2008 interview with Rolling Stone he said it was “the worst session ever” and “the worst track we ever had to record”, before adding: “it went on for fucking weeks”.
That’s perhaps a little strong. Kicked off in 1968, Paul McCartney initially wanted to include ‘Maxwell’s Silver Hammer’ on the White Album, before time constraints pushed it back. Rehearsed during the Get Back era, it was finally recorded six months later.
Source: Robin Murray/clashmusic.com
