“But then [producer Richard Perry] called back and said ‘Why don’t we do it in Los Angeles?’ So I said “Okay, we’ll come down to Los Angeles for a week,’ and I thought that we would just do a couple of tracks, but in a week we had eight backing tracks and we only needed two more for an album. So we felt that we had to carry on. The tracks were sounding good, we had four good songs, and John was in town, and so was George. They wrote me some songs and then I didn’t want to leave Paul out, so I phoned him and we flew back to England to do Paul. It just came about like that.”
-Ringo Starr, 1973
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