Why Ringo’s Drumming on “Rain” Still Sounds Modern 60 Years Later

“Rain” is Ringo’s victory lap.

The backward vocals get attention, sure. But drummers know the truth: Ringo is doing things most modern players still can’t replicate — that slightly behind-the-beat pocket, the loose wrists, the sweet spot between swing and rock. It's impossible to teach. You just have to feel it.

Which Ringo did. Every bar of it.