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) in August 2005. Featuring backing from the Roundheads – a band led by his latter-day producer Mark Hudson – these recordings were issued on Starr's releases "VH1 Storytellers" (1998) and "" (2007), respectively.<ref name="Erlewine/Soundstage"></ref> Further versions with his All-Starr Band have appeared on the albums "King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents Ringo & His New All-Starr Band" (2002), "Ringo Starr & His All Starr Band Live 2006" (2008) and "Live at the Greek Theatre 2008" (2010), the latter with Gary Wright among the revised line-up. Starr re-recorded the song with the American band Vandaveer for his 2017 album "Give More Love".