Ringo Starr couldn't play ... because I was trying to play the percussion and the drums at the same time, we were just a four piece band". For their second recording session with Starr, on 11 September 1962, Martin replaced him with session drummer Andy White while recording takes for what would be the two sides of the Beatles' first single, "Love Me Do", backed with "P.S. I Love You". Starr played tambourine on "Love Me Do" and maracas on "P.S. I Love You". Concerned about his status in the Beatles, he thought: "That's the end, they're doing a Pete Best on
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