10 Artists That Went Too Far For Classic Songs

There's a good case to be made that the sign that the Beatles were starting to decline was the moment that Brian Epstein passed away. Though he may have just been the manager behind the scenes, his hand on the business side of things led the Fab Four to superstardom, and carrying on without him led to horrible business decisions that left them at each other's throats. They never took it out on each other too much, but The White Album was the first time where you could really feel that tension.

After going through different takes of Paul McCartney's Back in the USSR, Ringo Starr was having a lot of trouble properly settling into a groove, which left it up to Paul to play the drums the way he heard them in his head. Thinking that he wasn't playing well compared to the rest of his bandmates, Ringo quit for a few weeks during these sessions, walking out and going on holiday. Work still needed to be done though, and Paul is the one playing drums on Dear Prudence, having a bit of a ramshackle feel to the drums that Ringo might not have been clicking with at the time.

By the time that Ringo came back to the band though, it was all water under the bridge, with George Harrison decorating his drum kit with flowers on the first day he came back to the studio. Things may have been looking up, but that little episode was just a small look at the fights that were to come with the Let It Be project.