After two years with The Beatles, drummer Pete Best’s time with the band came to an abrupt end. Not long before the band got their first No. 1 hit, they fired Best and replaced him with Ringo Starr.

The Beatles featuring Pete Best. ON TIME USE ONLY. HANDOUT. Contrary to how rock 'n' roll history books often portray him, Pete Best insists that he is more than a footnote. Best, 60, ...

The Beatles Museum, run by Roag Best, the brother of the 'fifth Beatle' Pete Best, nearly went up in flames, risking an ...

Before Ringo Starr, Pete Best was the drummer for The Beatles.He worked with the band on their early rise to success, playing in cramped Liverpool clubs and their residency in Hamburg.In 1962 ...

Original Beatles drummer Pete Best is flanked, left to right, by George Harrison, John Lennon and Paul McCartney in the early '60s. Q. As a self-professed "elder statesman," how do you keep going?

A letter confirming Pete Best’s dismissal from the Beatles was put up for auction and expected to sell for more than $1,000. The document is signed by the Fab Four’s manager, Brian Epstein ...

Pete Best was 18 in 1960 and contemplating his future when Paul McCartney asked if he wanted to audition to join The Beatles. Best, then a rising young rock drummer in Liverpool, didn’t miss a ...

Pete Best’s favorite Beatles song is “I Saw Her Standing There.” The original drummer of the Fab Four isn’t referring to the recorded version from the Beatles’ debut “Please Please Me ...

DOVER — Pete Best, the Beatles' original drummer, said his fondest memory of playing with the world's most famous rock band happened on Dec. 19, 1960. John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George ...

In the late 1980s he was convinced to give music another go after playing a one-off gig at a Beatles convention. And so the Pete Best Band has been a going concern for the past 37 years.

More than 60 years after Pete Best was ejected from The Beatles and replaced by Ringo Starr, reasons for the ouster continue to be a matter of conjecture.. He wasn’t a good enough drummer. His ...

Pete Best, who was the Beatles' drummer for just over two years before he was replaced by Ringo Starr, is about to take on his first try at acting in a new play, Lennon's Banjo, that will open in ...