Junk in the Trunk: Drive’s Daily Blog for Friday March 20th 2015

Each day, Rich Terfry and Radio 2 Drive wraps up your day with music and stories about the interesting things going on in the world. Today guest host Pete Morey is in the chair.

Pete's Pick:Pete's Pick: Happy Birthday Lee "Scratch" Perry (born on this day in 1936)

"Disco Devil"

Junk In The Trunk:

There is music all around us, even waiting for a plane to take off!

Ferret jumps into a trash can. I dare you to watch it just once.

Didga's Awesome Biking Adventure

Rear View Mirror:

Three times a week, Rich Terfry looks back in our Rear-view Mirror at a great song from the good ol’ days. Today, Pete Morey steps in for Rich and gives the story behind Ringo Starr's "Photograph."

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If you've heard the Beatles, you've heard a Lennon-McCartney song. You've probably heard a lot of them. You've definitely heard some of George Harrison's classics. You may have even heard a Ringo Starr original. But have you ever heard a Harrison-Starr song - a song George and Ringo wrote together? You may have, but it didn't happen while they were in the Beatles.

It happened three years after the band broke up. It's the only song on which the pair have a writing co-credit, and there was a good reason they only wrote one. George was having an affair with Ringo's wife, Maureen. It almost tore their friendship apart. But before all of that, came their shared song, "Photograph."

When the Beatles broke up, three of them went on to solo music careers. But Ringo had never been a prolific songwriter or musician. John Lennon once said “Ringo isn't even the best drummer in the Beatles.” Needless to say, he was a little lost. He was, however, the best actor. If you've seen him in the Beatles movies, you know the camera loved Ringo. So, he decided to pursue a movie career.

But at this time, he was drinking and cheating and his marriage to Maureen was on the rocks. In 1971, Ringo and Maureen rented a yacht in the south of France, and invited George and his wife Patti along. Since 1970, George had been making solo records and had already developed his sound on hits like “My Sweet Lord.”

On the yacht, Ringo and George sat down to write a song, and in one night George figured out the melody. Ringo added the wistful lyrics that told the story of a man who only has one photograph to remind him of a love that is no more. But while the pair of ex-Beatles were co-writing their first hit together, George was falling in love with Ringo's wife.

One evening, two years after that night on the yacht, Ringo and Maureen went to the Harrisons for dinner where George confessed his deep love for Maureen and revealed their secret affair. it was the final straw in both relationships & neither marriage survived the 70’s. Eventually, Ringo and George did recover the friendship they had lost. Ringo even joked, "better you than someone we don't know".

"Photograph" was the first and last song they ever officially co-wrote together, a song that Ringo would sing to honor his friend George when he passed away in 2001.

Here are some other great editions of Rear-view Mirror:

R Dean Taylor/There's a Ghost in My House

The Ronettes/Walking in the Rain

Buddy Holly/Peggy Sue

Stan Getz & Astrud Gilberto/The Girl From Ipanema

Norman Greenbaum/Spirit in the Sky

Elvis Presley/Blue Suede Shoes

Johnny Cash/Ring of Fire

The Kinks/You Really Got Me

The Beatles/Yesterday

Al Green/Let's Stay Together

Simon and Garfunkel/The Boxer