What Ringo did after the Beatles stunned the music world

And he needed a lift from the airport."Something had happened and [George had] sent his car away, so I sent my car to Heathrow to pick up Pete," Ringo recalls."He came into the studio and looked me right in the eye and says, 'Hey, horse, I see you like country music.' Because I had a lot of cassettes in the car — that's what we were playing in those days."The two men got along swimmingly, so Drake made a proposition."[The Beatles] had just broken up, I got me kids, and [I'm just] trying to get [it] together," Ringo explains."When he asked me, 'Do you want to go to Nashville and make a record?' I said, 'No, no He knew how to make great country records, and he knew how to do it quickly."He said, 'Long time? We did [Bob Dylan's classic 1969 country album] Nashville Skyline in two days.' So I said, 'I'm coming.'"Ringo jumped on a plane and was soon in a studio on Nashville's famous Music Row."I got there, and we did Beaucoups Of Blues in two days