McCartney Times

It’s no secret that Ringo Starr is a country music aficionado; he cowrote Rubber Soul’s “What Goes On” and composed the blatantly country-and-western “Don’t Pass Me By” for the White Album. Knowing his love for the genre, John Lennon and Paul McCartney originally crafted the Beatles for Sale track “I Don’t Want to Spoil the Party” specifically for Starr. While Lennon ended up singing lead, Starr played a crucial part in the song — namely the thumping bridge.“I Don’t Want to Spoil the Party” is also paradoxical; while it harkens back to their early rockabilly roots, it also forecasts the Beatles’ future experimental sound.

Source: The Beatles, “I Don’t Want to Spoil the Party” from ‘Beatles for Sale’ (1964): Deep Beatles | Something Else!