P.S. I Love You (Beatles song) ten takes on 11 September 1962 at EMI's Abbey Road Studios, London. Producer George Martin had booked session drummer Andy White as a replacement for Pete Best, whom he considered not technically good enough for recording purposes (Martin had been unaware that the other Beatles had already replaced Pete Best with Ringo Starr, who attended the session and plays maracas on the song). White was a freelance show band and session drummer, and gave the recording a lightweight cha cha treatment. Martin was not present at the session, which was run by Ron Richards in his absence. Richards told 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