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Pete Best
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British musician, former member of the Beatles
Pete Best was the drummer for the Beatles during their early years in Liverpool and Hamburg, before being replaced by Ringo Starr in 1962. He matters historically because he was part of the band's formative period, though he left before they achieved their major worldwide fame and success.
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Madras, Madras State, British India
Pete Best is a british musician, known as first drummer of The Beatles.
Known for
- The Beatles — Self (archive footage)2025
- No Hamburg, No Beatles — Self2024
- The Beatles: Made on Merseyside2018
- It Was Fifty Years Ago Today! The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper & Beyond — Self2017
- Some Other Guys: The Story of the Big Three2017
- I Was There: When the Beatles Played the Cavern — Self2011
- Hamburg Journal — self2011
- The Beatles: Up Close and Personal — Self2008
- The Rocker — Self2008
- The Beatles Explosion — Self (archive footage)2007
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- Liverpool
- Active from
- 1941
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- 14,605
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Pete Best is the son of Mona Best, the woman who started a club in Liverpool at the end of the 50s. The Beatles played there a bit, and before Beatles left to Hamburg, they had to get a new drummer. That was Pete Best. He played with them until Beatles were supposed to record a single at George Martin's studio in London. Martin thought that Pete didn't fit in the group, for Pete was quiet and introverted while the Beatles were more fun loving and loud. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Pete+Bes
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Peter
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Chennai
- Mother
- Mona Best
- Occupation
- musician
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- rock music
- Instrument
- drum kit
- Official website
- www.petebest.com
- Image
- Pete Best2005.jpg
- Number of children
- 2
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- date of birth
- 1941-11-24
- start of work period
- 1959-00-00
- name in native language
- Randolph Peter Best
- Commons category
- Pete Best
- short name
- Pete Best
- nickname
- The Fifth Beatle
- birth name
- Randolph Peter Scanland
- web feed URL
- www.petebest.com/feed
- pseudonym
- worst of the Beatles
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Encyclopedic overview
Randolph Peter Best (né Scanland; born 24 November 1941) is a British retired musician who was the drummer for the Beatles from 1960 to 1962. He was dismissed shortly before the band attained global fame and is one of several people referred to as a fifth Beatle.
Best's mother, Mona Best (1924–1988), opened the Casbah Coffee Club in the cellar of the Bests' house in Liverpool. The Beatles (at the time known as the Quarrymen) played some of their first concerts at the club. The Beatles invited Best to join the band on 12 August 1960, on the eve of the group's first Hamburg season of club dates. Ringo Starr eventually replaced Best on 16 August 1962 when the group's manager, Brian Epstein, fired Best at the request of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison following the band's first recording session. Over 30 years later, Best received a significant monetary payout for his work with the Beatles after the release of their 1995 compilation of their early recordings on Anthology 1; Best played the drums on 10 of the album's tracks, including the Decca auditions.
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