Editing Ringo Starr (section)

===Songwriting===
Starr's idiosyncratic turns of phrase or "Ringoisms", such as "[[A Hard Day's Night (song)#Title|a hard day's night]]" and "[[Tomorrow Never Knows#Title|tomorrow never knows]]", were used as song titles by the Beatles, particularly by Lennon.{{sfn|Harry|2004|p=3}} McCartney commented: "Ringo would do these little [[malapropism]]s, he would say things slightly wrong, like people do, but his were always wonderful, very lyrical ... they were sort of magic."{{sfn|Miles|1997|p=164}} Starr also occasionally contributed lyrics to unfinished Lennon–McCartney songs, such as the line "[[darning]] his socks in the night when there's nobody there" in "[[Eleanor Rigby]]".<ref name="harddayswriteeleanorrigby">{{cite book|last=Turner|first=Steve|title=A Hard Day's Write: The Stories Behind Every Beatles Song|editor-first=Nicola|editor-last=Hodge|publisher=HarperCollins|year=1999|edition=9|page=105|chapter=Revolver|isbn=978-0-06-273698-7}}</ref>

Starr is credited as the sole composer of two Beatles songs: "[[Don't Pass Me By]]" and "[[Octopus's Garden]]", the latter written with assistance from Harrison.{{sfn|Rodriguez|2010|pp=260–61}} While promoting the ''Abbey Road'' album in 1969, Harrison recognised Starr's lyrics to "Octopus's Garden" as an unwittingly profound message about finding inner peace, and therefore an example of how "Ringo writes his cosmic songs without knowing it."<ref>{{cite news|first=Ritchie|last=Yorke|title=George Harrison Talks About the Beatles' Album ''Abbey Road''|newspaper=[[Detroit Free Press]]|date=26 September 1969}} Available at [https://rocksbackpages.com/Library/Article/george-harrison-talks-about-the-beatles-album-iabbey-roadi Rock's Backpages] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200813032634/https://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Article/george-harrison-talks-about-the-beatles-album-iabbey-roadi |date=13 August 2020 }} (subscription required).</ref> Starr is also credited as a co-writer of "[[What Goes On (Beatles song)|What Goes On]]", "[[Flying (Beatles instrumental)|Flying]]" and "[[Dig It (Beatles song)|Dig It]]".<ref>{{harvnb|Womack|2007|p=204}}: "Flying"; 120–121: "What Goes On"; {{harvnb|Harry|2000|p=339}}</ref>{{refn|group=nb|"What Goes On" was a pre-Beatles Lennon song to which McCartney added a middle eight in an effort to provide Starr a lead vocal on ''Rubber Soul''.{{sfn|Clayson|2005|p=147}}}} On material issued after the band's break-up, he received a writing credit for "Taking a Trip to Carolina" and joint songwriting credits with the other Beatles for "[[12-Bar Original]]", "[[Step Inside Love|Los Paranoias]]", "[[Christmas Time (Is Here Again)]]", "[[Let It Be (1970 film)#Soundtrack|Suzy Parker]]" (from the ''Let It Be'' film), "Jessie's Dream" (from the ''Magical Mystery Tour'' film), "Free as a Bird" and "[[Now and Then (Beatles song)|Now and Then]]".{{sfn|Unterberger|2006|pp=134: "12-Bar Original", 181: "Jessie's Dream", 185–186: "Christmas Time (Is Here Again)", 215: "Los Paranoias", 236: "Taking a Trip to Carolina", 244: "Suzy Parker"}}

In a 2003 interview, Starr discussed Harrison's input in his songwriting and said: "I was great at writing two verses and a chorus – I'm still pretty good at that. Finishing songs is not my forte."<ref name="Ruttenburg/TimeOutNY">{{cite web|url=http://www.timeout.com/newyork/music/r-i-n-g-o|title=R-I-N-G-O|last=Ruttenberg|first=Jay|date=24 July 2003|work=[[Time Out New York]]|access-date=2 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141231074933/http://www.timeout.com/newyork/music/r-i-n-g-o|archive-date=31 December 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> Harrison helped Starr complete two of his biggest hit songs, "[[It Don't Come Easy]]" and "[[Back Off Boogaloo]]",<ref name="Ruttenburg/TimeOutNY" /> although he only accepted a credit for "[[Photograph (Ringo Starr song)|Photograph]]", which they wrote together in France.{{sfn|Rodriguez|2010|p=261}} Starting with the ''Ringo'' album in 1973, Starr shared a songwriting partnership with [[Vini Poncia]].{{sfn|Clayson|2005|pp=244–45}} One of the pair's first collaborations was "[[Oh My My (Ringo Starr song)|Oh My My]]".{{sfn|Clayson|2005|pp=244–45}} Over half of the songs on ''Ringo the 4th'' were Starkey–Poncia compositions, but the partnership produced just two more songs, released on ''Bad Boy'' in 1978.{{sfn|Clayson|2005|pp=279, 288}}