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Though it was Ringo's signature vocal turn on the Beatles' last album, Abbey Road, the formation of "Octopus's Garden" actually took place over the span of several group projects. Fed up with group infighting and the increasing control of Paul McCartney, who wanted to play drums on "Back In The USSR" when Ringo proved to have trouble with the drum track, Starr left the group on August 22, 1968, taking a family vacation in Sardinia (an Italian island in the Mediterranean). Having secured a boat from comic actor and friend of the band Peter Sellers, Ringo toured the island, but upon asking for "fish and chips" for lunch, was instead served octopus.