The song Paul McCartney called “the beginning of The Beatles”

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The Beatles became the rock and roll icons they are today because of each and every one of them. When George Harrison and Ringo Starr put their trademark touch to everything, the band's songs became classics, even if the band's early success may have been attributed to the songwriting duo of John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Even though McCartney recognized early on that the band was onto something special, he saw one particular performance as the turning point.

John Lennon, however, was destined to perform rock and roll before McCartney ever began to put together a band. Loved the sounds he heard from Little Richard to Chuck Berry, Lennon fell in love with rock and roll and would use the chords his mother had learned him on the banjo to develop a makeshift guitar repertoire.

Lennon realized that McCartney might be more talented than he had thought when the newcomer showed up at one of his shows with The Quarrymen, his fledgling band. Following the addition of lead guitarist George Harrison, a childhood buddy of McCartney, the group went through numerous drummers and recorded a variety of demos wherever they could.

The band would hone their skills playing into the early hours of the morning and discovering new methods to amuse both themselves and their audience onstage during their maiden trip to Hamburg, Germany. McCartney switched to bass for the duration of the group's history, even though bassist Stu Sutcliffe left to remain in Germany.

But Pete Best started to stand out as the band's early years' obstacle as they were honing their craft. Although there was nothing intrinsically flawed in Best's style of playing, Ringo Starr's presence would invigorate the group each time he joined them during their Liverpool performances.

Starr was regarded by the band as a musical veteran because of his background with Rory Storm and the Hurricanes; McCartney even remarked that he appeared to be a more mature musician than the other members of the group. Despite Starr's limited role as a substitute during his few performances with the group, McCartney recalled the moment the Fab Four magic started to happen on stage.

The band was anxious that they wouldn't be able to perform its English rendition of Ray Charles's timeless song, "What'd I Say," with a new drummer. The rest of the band had to reevaluate Best's posture as Starr would effortlessly pull off the iconic swing without losing a beat.

"It's kind of a hard drum part to do, but Ringo nailed it," McCartney remarked on introducing Starr to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, believing that this song was the catalyst for The Beatles' real magic to begin. And I was thinking, "Fucking hell, what is this?" as I was staring at John and George. And that was actually The Beatles' beginning.

Starr would eventually use that shuffle pattern extensively, putting it into the foundational track for the band's hit single, "I Feel Fine." Even though the Beatles had been perfecting their sound for years by that point, their performance of this song was sealed by the genuine enchantment each member of the band created.