“Photograph” — Ringo Starr

No Words, No Song
4 min readOct 26, 2019
Photo by Michael Henry on Unsplash

When we think of their post-Beatles careers, we remember Paul McCartney and John Lennon, of course. Some remember George Harrison. But few remember Ringo Starr’s contribution to pop music’s back catalogue.

In fairness, that’s perhaps because, with apologies for the pun, his star flickered only briefly, but Ringo Starr landed two Number Ones on the Billboard Hot 100 during 1973 — firstly with “Photograph” and then…

--

--

No Words, No Song

Without words, it’s just a nice tune. Add words — now you’ve got a song. And songs can change your world. I write about some that changed mine.