The Beatles' Ringo Starr and the band's producer agreed this one album was a mistake

The Beatles' drummer Ringo Starr and the band's producer, George Martin, agreed that one album was a mistake.

Shortly after meeting in 1957, the group's chief songwriters, John Lennon and Paul McCartney, began writing songs together. Soon, their songwriting partnership became one of the most successful in music as they crafted hit after hit.

However, as the Fab Four began to drift apart and explore other interests, most of the tension between Lennon and McCartney stemmed from their differing approaches to songwriting. While McCartney wanted to make catchy hits, Lennon strived to experiment with thought-provoking tunes. What resulted was a messy double-album called The White Album.

While some of The Beatles' biggest hits arrived on the 30-track record, including Blackbird and Happiness Is A Warm Gun, The White Album is considered one of the Fab Four's most chaotic endeavors.

George Martin, often referred to as the Fifth Beatle, had a significant issue with the project. "I thought we should probably have made a very, very good single album rather than a double," he admitted, according to the Anthology book.

However, Martin knew Lennon and McCartney didn't want to break up the tracks. He added, "But they insisted. I think it could have been made fantastically good if it had been compressed a bit and condensed.

"A lot of people I know think it’s still the best album they made. I later learned that by recording all those songs, they were getting rid of their contact with EMI more quickly."

Songs like Wild Honey Pie, Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey, and The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill tend to be some of the most forgotten songs in The Beatles' entire catalog. It's obvious that they were filler.

 Even Starr agreed the album was a mistake. "I agree that we should have put it out as two separate albums," Starr said. "The White and Whiter albums."  Meanwhile, McCartney's issue with the album wasn't its length. According to Far Out, he admitted that pushing the band to do its best, something he normally did, was no longer enjoyable. So, The White Album wasn't "a pleasant one to make."

Lennon, on the other hand, later admitted to Martin that he wanted to re-record all of The Beatles' songs. While speaking with Robert Sandall, Martin recalled that Lennon had plans for certain songs as well.

He explained, "We were just chatting about old times, and he suddenly came out and said, 'I'd like to do everything we've done over again.' And I said, 'You don't think we did anything right?' He said, 'Most of what we did was crap.' I said, 'Well, what about Strawberry Fields?' and he said, 'ESPECIALLY Strawberry Fields.'"

Source: Hannah Furnell/irishstar.com