Ringo Starr, English drummer and singer-songwriter

“I listen for your footsteps / Coming up the drive / Listen for your footsteps / But they don’t arrive / Waiting for your knock, dear / On my old front door / I don’t hear it / Does it mean you don’t love me anymore? /…Don’t pass me by, don’t make me cry, don’t make me blue / ’cause you know darling, I love only you / You never know it hurts me so, how I hate to see you go…” (“Don’t Pass Me By,” 1968)

July 7, 1940