He stood out in "Rory Storm and the Hurricanes." The other Beatles would talk about how he came to be in the band. One time Pete Best couldn't make a show and Ringo stood in. Paul, John and George all looked at each other in amazement because of how well he fit in each song. With songwriting like that, all a drummer can do is fuck it up. He enhanced them. I'm a fan. There was a funny article a while back from a guy that hates Paul. He asserted that the Beatles are dying in reverse order of talent. He finished with, "if I were Ringo, I'd be scared."
Lol about the article. I think he fit the Beatles songwriting style for sure. Great chemistry with the band. He just my least favorite of the bunch. As I stated before, it's an unpopular opinion which can be risky to post because of peoples attachment to the Beatles. Not all of their songs were good, I would lean towards saying more of them are bad/mediocre, than good/epic. To clarify, I love the Beatles, they had some amazing songs, i just feel like they(especially ringo) get put on this pedestal when they were just a band that wrote good and bad songs. They made a ton of music, so it's hard to be all one way or the other. Also I feel like their strongpoint was songwriting, not musicianship. Especially In the beginning, they barely knew how to play their instruments.