Ringo Starr is the Beatle least lauded for his vocals, having sung lead on only 11 of the band’s more than 200 songs. Two of those, “Don’t Pass Me By” and “Octopus’s Garden,” he wrote himself. John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote the beloved Beatles single “With a Little Help From My Friends” for Ringo to sing—with a little help from Ringo himself on one particular lyric.

As reported by Ultimate Classic Rock, John and Paul kept Ringo’s limited vocal range in mind while writing the melody and structure of the song. They even teased him about it when they introduced it to him. Ringo took those friendly jabs in stride, but when the songwriting duo shared the original line that followed “What would you do if I sang out of tune?” he firmly put his foot down.

He didn’t want fans to throw tomatoes at him

“They had one line that I wouldn’t sing,” Ringo shared in the band’s autobiography, The Beatles Anthology. “It was ‘What would you do if I sang out of tune? Would you stand up and throw tomatoes at me?’ I said, ‘There’s not a chance in........

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