# The 1968 Beatles song Ringo Starr thought was unbeatable: “You can’t top it”

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/the-1968-beatles-song-ringo-starr-thought-was-unbeatable-you-cant-top-it/
- Published: 2026-08-03T15:35:49+00:00
- Updated: 2026-08-25T12:17:52+00:00
- Original publisher: Far Out
- Original article: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-1968-beatles-song-ringo-starr-thought-was-unbeatable/
- Topics: Celebrity, Entertainment, Music

## Key points

- Ringo Starr called ‘Yer Blues’ Beatles' unbeatable studio moment
- Recorded cramped together in tiny Abbey Road room, no separation
- Lennon wrote it in India amid personal despair, White Album era tension

## Summary

Ringo Starr has named ‘Yer Blues’, from The Beatles’ 1968 self-titled record (widely known as the White Album), as a track he believed the band could never surpass. The song stands out for how it was made rather than just how it sounds: written by John Lennon in India while he was, in his own words, "trying to reach God and feeling suicidal," it was recorded with all four members crammed into a tiny room at Abbey Road with no separation between instruments, giving it a raw, live intensity unusual for the era.

Starr later recalled the session fondly, saying "you can't top it" and describing the cramped eight-by-eight room as producing "grunge rock of the sixties, really – grunge blues." The recording came at a fraught time for the band, with the White Album sessions marked by growing creative divisions between Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison. Despite this, the stripped-back, blues-driven approach to ‘Yer Blues’ evoked the group's earlier days as a bar band, and is remembered as a rare moment of unfiltered chemistry between the four Liverpudlians.

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