I like it. It fits in with most of Ringo's Beatle material--non-threatening, not deep, just Ringo. George paid him a compliment by saying that Ringo writes 'cosmically' without knowing it. He was referring to Octopus' Garden and the line 'we would be warm, below the storm.

Tho I prefer underrated material more than mainstream in general, I dont like Dont Pass Me By. It sounds childish (and it only works a little cos is Ringo who is singing).

Ringo could write better lines than the famous (at least in this thread) "You were in a car crash and you lost your hair" and better titles too  

The "You were in a car crash and you lost your hair" is just Ringo's humour coming out. If, on Anthology III, you program your CD for A Beginning and then follow it with DPMB, you get a nice experience. A Beginning was supposed to introduce DPMB anyway. I still think backing vocals from John, Paul and George would have made it a lot better. Their harmonies on Octopus's Garden work fantastically well.

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I wouldn't have said suffer. lol.... Ringo and George could have always left the group and formed their own if it was that much of a problem. Obviously Lennon and McCartney are going to put a lot of time into their own compositions. Why not?

Surprising view on the Beatles splitting! If some of Lennon-McCartney's lesser compositions could have been dropped in favour of some of Harrison's better compositions that would have been nice. All Things Must Pass instead of Dig A Pony, or Maxwell's Silver Hammer, perhaps. I'm still a Ringoite, and still think his own songwriting could have been fostered more.