The Beatles Experience touring until they meet Brian Epstein for the first time and he agrees to get them a recording contract. When he does the band considers firing Pete Best as drummer but do not know who will replace him. Paul suggests Ringo Starr and he has been listening in the whole time and agrees so once again John starts to narrate but stops at the height of Beatlemania when his father returns to try to reap the fruits of John's success and tells him to go away so John narrates a huge portion of the Beatles' career and stops at the
Photograph (Ringo Starr song) acknowledges the extent of Harrison's influence on this and other tracks on "Ringo" while rueing that "Photograph" marks the only formal co-composition by the two ex-Beatles. Huntley describes the song as the album's "stand-out track" and "by a country mile, the commercial high-point" for Starr as a songwriter. Former "Mojo" editor Mat Snow recognises it as "perhaps the single best song of [Starr's] career" and the "emotional heart" of the album. The song provided the title to Starr's 2007 career-spanning compilation "",<ref name="Erlewine/AM"></ref> having earlier appeared on "Blast from Your Past" (1975), a greatest-hits collection covering his years on Apple