It Don't Come Easy - Ringo Starr | College Students' FIRST TIME REACTION! 

Ringo has the sole writing credit for this song, but it's a poorly kept secret that George Harrison actually wrote it and kindly gave it to Ringo for him to take full writing credit in order to help him establish independence from his former bandmates.

Ringo had some great solo hits. I think "Photograph" is his best. P.S. Happy birthday, Alex!

Adding my vote for “Photograph” as the next Ringo hit to listen to. Boy, these songs bring back memories.

No matter how much the other 3 fell out, no one ever fell out with Ringo. He was beloved. As a result, he would always get by with a little help from his friends. And why not? He did a great country album in Nashville called "Beaucoup of Blues". He is worth investigating more, most definitely. Happy you liked it. Also HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!! 🎂🎂a cake each. Have a great time and stay safe. xx

This was a HUGE hit when it came out. We all loved it.

In 1974, when John Lennon was asked if he regretted the breakup of The Beatles, he said that if The Beatles hadn't broken up, the great music all 4 of them put out individually would never have happened!.....this song fits that format perfectly!

Perhaps Ringo's greatest post- Beatles contribution to music has been his All-Star band, which has been touring with different members since 1989. The very long list of musicians who have participated in this venture reads like a list of Who's Who in popular music from the last several decades.

I love this song! Definitely an A+ at least! You can hear George’s contribution. This and Photograph really bring back a lot of memories.

I have seen him with his All Star band twice. Always a good time. I am a bass player, so saw him with Jack Bruce and then John Entwhistle. Incredible how he is staill going strong. Long live Ringo!

"Photograph" is Ringo's greatest solo single. Written and played on by George Harrison, it is as good as any Beatle solo song.

Photograph is absolutely the song From Ringo.

'Photograph'. Ringo sang it at George's memorial and the lyrics really fit the occasion. Must be heard.

Beautiful arrangement and production too - from Badfinger doing the background vocals to Leon Russell’s piano to George’s slide solos and Leslie’d arpeggios in the intro & outro

"Act Naturally" Ringo & Buck Owens

When you’ve listened to more solo George Harrison, you’ll see what a collaborative effort this song was.

Been quoting, "Got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues" and "please remember peace and how we make it", since this song came out. ❤️ Sir Ringo.

If you want just a fun time, watch a Ringo Starr All Star Band concert. Top notch musicians having a great time.

GOOOOOOOD MORNING A&A FAMILY! ☮️💟♾️

It's an easy A for me, one of my favorite Beatles solo songs.

Photograph next

"Photograph" is another good song from Ringo

Ringo had a certain sense of humor with his solo stuff, much akin to him being "the joy" when he was with the Beatles. "The No No Song" is probably the best example of this.

Ringo is credited as the composer, but George Harrison helped him immensely.

Ringo built one of the best gigs in music, touring his All Starr Band with an ever revolving cast of musicians with certifiable hits they can draw from for their live shows.

Don't knock Ringo...he was more successful than people realize...

A&A, you’ll love his “Photograph”, “Oh My My”, “No No Song” and “You’re Sixteen”!

Damn i love this song! Thanks, gents. Photograph is definitely next as many have mentioned already.

Great one! Love photograph too

This is NOT a B+. It is a classic staple.

I think "Photograph" - on which George and Ringo shared writing credits - is probably a better song, but this one (mainly written by George but generously credited just to Ringo) is pretty good - and the production on this (which George did) is just superb - surprised you guys didn't focus more on that in your reaction.

One of the the best guitar solos ever recorded. It's given me goosebumps ever since it was released

Great song, it's an A+ to me. Was written by Ringo & George Harrison. The same with Ringo's Photograph. George is playing guitar on the track also, which you can tell right as the song opens. Also playing on it is Klaus Voormann who is on a lot of solo Beatles albums. Gary Wright is playing piano, if you haven't hit him yet Dreamweaver & Love is alive are really good songs to hit. Loving this Beatles solo stuff guys. Next for Ringo, there's a few you should hit eventually. Photograph Back off Boogaloo Oh, my my No-no song You're sixteen (you're beautiful & you're mine) Only you (and you alone) I'm the greatest (written by John Lennon)

The thing about this song is that it's catcher than one can realize. It's much later after I initially watched your reaction, and the song is still running around in my head, horns and all. Of course I have heard it more often than you guys have, so my brain has a certain familiarity.

In listing Ringo’s better songs, I’m surprised no one has mentioned “A Little Help From My Friends,“ yet. Sure, Joe Cocker did an iconic version of it at Woodstock, but Ringo’s original was also a classic.

I actually like a lot of the Beatles separately as much as together. They really were able let their individuality show through. 📻🙂

Ringo is a Southpaw who plays instruments (drum kits as well as guitar) right-handed. That messes with the performer's brain, but can also yield unique output. I believe it's one of the reasons for his distinctive sound on Beatles recordings.

In the winter and spring of 1971 all four of the Beatles members had songs in the Top 40 at the same time for a number of weeks. George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord" Paul's "Another Day", John's "Power to the People" followed by Ringo's "It Don't Come Easy".

Produced and co-written by George. Ringo is all about fun, don't look for messages. Rush? Are you guys high? lol

Ringo wasn’t the most talented Beatle but he was the perfect drummer for them. He was the special sauce ;)

Have always loved this song; it says important things so simply and is such a great groove.

Ringo has been famous for 60 years dare I say he’s probably the most well-known drummer in the western world

By far my fave Ringo solo song

Ring as his bandmates called him. 1940, the oldest Beatle, but the last to join the group. In hospital much of his early days, mother told him because of his birth, WW II started. February 8th or 9th, 1964, when The Beatles appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, how many wanted to play guitar, start a band, sing, but how many wanted to become a drummer. Unique, One of a Kind, literally walks to the beat of his own drum, nobody plays like Ringo. Ringo has some great songs, but that's only part of him. Always with the peace signs! Peace. :)

👍😎 Ringo is like a great character actor. Not there to shine, but to make the big talent better. That takes talent. My favorite Beatle. I paused right as song finished, I’ll say A-

Happy Birthday Andy and Alex! I've been enjoying your channel and intelligent comments for a couple years now. Thanks for the great content. Ringo has done some great songs. Thanks for diving into the Beatles' solo careers!

Glad you reacted to this Ringo song. Back in the early 70s ABC used to have a late night news show on Friday nights called Goodnight America. They used this song as their intro to the program every week. That show was actually the introduction of Geraldo Rivera on a national level on a regular basis, and he did a really good job on his investigative stories.

So excited to be here. I love your videos and usually I have to wait till I get home from work to enjoy them. Today I m waiting to watch. Excellent choice by the way.

my favorite Ringo song

Happy Birthday(s), guys!!! Thanks for all the great content!

George's guitar intro is very similar sounding to his playing on the bridge to the Cream song "Badge". When Ringo introduced "Photograph" before performing it at The Concert For George, he said that they had written that song together too - but now it had more meaning.

Happy birthday guys. Great analysis on this tune. I pretty much agree with everything you said. It didn`t exactly blow me away either when it first came out but for sure it was enjoyable to listen to & it was welcomed especially for all of us that missed the Beatles. Great start to Friday.

OKAY, OKAY….I love your channel and you guys are so open to the best music from the era that had the best music…IM SUBSCRIBING! ❤️❤️❤️

Love that you guys are enjoying this!

Happy Birthday wishes to both of you. Virgo's are the best. Great reaction, as usual. Have fun partying this Weekend!🍻

Besides "Photograph", check out Ringo's "Back Off Boogaloo", "Oh My My", "Snookeroo" and "Weight of the World".

"It made me listen harder to the tone, and I was like, dang, that's a really cool tone!" That, Alex, is a guitar fed through a Leslie speaker. A Leslie is an amplifier/speaker that modifies sound by use of an internal rotating chamber baffle that alters not only amplitude (creating tremolo) but also frequency (altering pitch and thereby creating overtones). It was originally designed by an engineer named Don Leslie to enable Hammond organs to simulate pipe organs, but in the '60s certain musicians, producers, and engineers (notably Brian Wilson and Lou Adler in L.A., and Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick at EMI Studio on Abbey Road in London) began tinkering with Leslies in order to use them with non-organ sound sources, most notably vocals (that's John Lennon singing through a Leslie in "Tomorrow Never Knows" on *Revolver* ) and guitar. George Harrison turned a guitar fed through a Leslie into his signature sound for awhile, and it's George you hear playing both the rhythm and the lead in "It Don't Come Easy" (which he co-wrote with Ringo, although George wasn't credited, and produced). The Leslie guitar sound became pretty ubiquitous through the late '60s and into the '70s; tons of songs that you've heard on your reaction channel already have featured Leslie-fied guitars. The sound was so popular that pedal manufacturers immediately set to designing pedals specifically meant to emulate a Leslie; Jimi Hendrix, David Gilmour, and Robin Trower used such pedals. Nowadays the technology is really close to capturing the sound, to the point where you can barely catch the difference between a pedal and a Leslie, although nothing really quite captures the essence of an old tube-driven Leslie 122. It's the coolest and most glorious guitar tone in rock'n'roll history, if you ask me. A Leslie makes even a straightforward pop song like "It Don't Come Easy", Cream's "Badge", or Badfinger's "No Matter What" sound grand and important and a little bit mysterious. It really is the electric guitar's answer to the pipe organ.

I look forward to your videos every Friday when I get home from work. It’s usually a song I know but haven’t heard in a while.

Hey, I’ve never shown up to an A&A party *early,* before… this is kind of cool. Do you think it’s okay for us to help ourselves to snacks?

Thanks for sharing with us guys, hope you have a wonderful weekend!!

Great classic early '70s era rock. This one never gets old. Those opening notes belong on the Mt Rushmore of Rock.

Right on! A great song for a September morning. Excellent. And... happy birthday.

And they hardly ever let him sing when he was with "The Beatles." Ringo actually did quite well for himself as a solo artist. Most people felt sorry for him, and thought he'd be forgotten. Boy was everyone wrong. Thanks guys

The Beatle RINGO STARR!! Great Singing! Great Drumming!!

Oh our beloved Ringo! They were such music legends together & individually. Sending you both huge amounts of birthday love from Down Under.

Photograph is another Ringo cut worth reacting too. And the two of you attempting to do English accents was hilarious!

Happy Birthday to Andy and Alex!

Happy Birthday Alex and Andy, respectively. 🎉🎈☮️🖤🤘

This song holds up for sure. Heard this in high school when released, and it was a radio staple at the time.

I love him singing Octopus’s Garden and I Get By with a Little Help from My Friends

Just one of those catchy songs that sounds good. Simple can still be good, always enjoy hearing it.

It's probably my favorite Ringo solo song. But it was written by George, who also did that great guitar solo. They occasionally played on each other's solo stuff, especially in the 70's, but even much later, Ringo has occasionally played on some of Paul's stuff.

Rock on guys, happy B-day Andy, i was also born spet. 5th but way back in 1968. so all this old stuff you guys are discovering i remember discovering when they were knew to the whole world, again rock on gentlemen!

Happy Birthday Alex!!

Happy Birthday Andy!!!

Great song, I look forward to hearing it this Monday, Labor Day at Tanglewood in the Berkshires. Ringo was excellent when we saw him about 15 years ago. Have a nice holiday weekend! 🎵🎸🎤🎹🎶

Great song, MUCH too short! Ringo not only leaned on George Harrison creatively but he knew how to surround himself with top musicians, incl George plus Gary Wright and Klaus Voormann.

Great GH song. Love the RS "version." Ringo did great work on this. George is uncredited of course at his discretion. If you have not hit GH, What Is Life yet, please do!! This is easily an A+ for me. I am partial to GH penned tracks.

Guys!!!! It's my 71st birthdat today! September 2nd, 1951. I saw Elvis, the Beatles, The Stones, Jefferson Airplane, Hendrix, Canned Heat, The Allman Bros, led Zep...Geez, I could go on and on. You guys brought that all back for me. I thank the shit out of you. Are you fucking kidding me! Happy birthday, gentlemen--and thanks for rocking it out.

Such a great song. The opening riff is incredibly reminiscent of “Questions” by Buffalo Springfield.

This brings back memories of listening to Art Bell on the radio back in the '90s. This was part of his regular bumper music rotation at the time. RIP, Art.

Happy Birthday Andy🎉 Happy Birthday Alex🎉

Finally I'm so glad you are going this song. One of my favourites of his.

Check out Ringo's duet with country music legend Buck Owens titled Act Naturally...include the video!

Happy Birthday Alex !

One of my all time favorite songs. A Classic. “Got to pay your dues if you wanna sing the blues and you know it don’t come easy.” This has got to be one of the greatest opening lines in music.

Happy Birthday Alex, and soon Andy! Great work as always lads. If you want a song to put you in a good calm mood, "Amie" by the Pure Prairie League - great solo in the middle, great harmonies. You'll enjoy it.

I really love this song. Such a classic. Tha k you for sharing .

Thanks for doing this. I'm excited that after 2-1/2 years of cancellations we're finally getting to see Ringo & His Allstar Bank Tuesday night.

Happy birthday, Alex! 🍻 🤙🏻

Awesome ... My birthday is Sept 2nd too ... Happy Birthday!!! This is an awesome song and reaction!!! ...💖💖

Wow, I’m early! Great song today! I do wish A Little Help From My Friends or You’re Sixteen would have made it onto the poll. But I know….. shoulda been there! 😁

Happy Birthday to you both!

For these Beatles solo tunes, you should probably make a point to look up who played on the tracks... you'll almost always see some familiar names

Love it! Ringo is a phenomenal drummer and a pretty good singer.

Sorry I missed this Live Stream 😼, but I was enroute to another city. "It Don't Come Easy" is a good song. I enjoyed listening to it again. Thank you for reacting to it. 😸💜

God Bless you both with a very Happy Birthday❤️✌️

Really loving this channel fellas. Would love to see album reactions and more Beatles content!

Happy Birthday both of you! I have a September birthday myself.

Happy Birthday and God bless your future!

This is such a feel good tune, one of my favorites!! The individual Beatles solo work is all so good. Happy Birthday Alex 🎉 🎈 🎂 🥳 🎁 🎊 🎉 🎈 🎂 ‼️‼️‼️ Annnnd Happy Birthday early Andy 🎉🎉🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🥂🥂🥂🥂🎉🎉🎉🎉🎂‼️‼️‼️ September is THE month, my youngest daughter's birthday was September 1st. Have a great celebration!! Did you guys know this weekend (Labor day weekend) was when the US FESTIVAL happened in 1982 in San Bernardino, CA??!!! So many great bands, Fleetwood Mac, Pat Benatar, Ramones, The Police, Grateful Dead, The Cars, Oingo Boingo, Santana and so many more bands in front of a crowd of over 400,000. It was amazing. Have a great Birthday weekend guys!!