For other people with similar names, see Peter Best.
Pete Best
Best performing in 2006
Background information
Birth name
Randolph Peter Scanland
Born
(1941-11-24) 24 November 1941 (age 82) Madras, British India
Origin
Liverpool, England
Genres
Rock
rock and roll
Occupations
Musician
singer
songwriter
Instruments
Drums
vocals
Years active
1959–1968
1988–present
Formerly of
The Beatles
Lee Curtis and the All-Stars
Pete Best & the All-Stars
The Pete Best Four
The Pete Best Combo
The Pete Best Band
Website
petebest.com
Musical artist
Randolph Peter Best (né Scanland; born 24 November 1941) is an English musician who was the drummer for the Beatles from 1960 to 1962. He was dismissed immediately before the band achieved worldwide fame and is one of several people who have been 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 major 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.
After working in several commercially unsuccessful groups, Best gave up being in the music industry to work as a civil servant for 20 years before starting the Pete Best Band.
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Others referred to as the "fifth Beatle" include their original drummer, PeteBest, bassist Stuart Sutcliffe, and keyboardist Billy Preston. Stuart Sutcliffe...
PeteBest (b. 24 November 1941) was a drummer at the time. Mona Best also had two other sons, John Rory (b. 29 January 1945), and Vincent "Roag" Best...
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the only Beatles biopic to be made while John Lennon was still alive. PeteBest, the Beatles' original drummer, served as a technical advisor for the...
different drummer. The first attempted recording from June 1962 featured PeteBest on drums, but was not officially released until the Anthology 1 compilation...
version of Pete Postlethwaite'. Steven Spielberg, who directed Postlethwaite in 1997's The Lost World: Jurassic Park, called him "the best actor in the...
Beatles, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Stuart Sutcliffe and PeteBest regularly performed at different clubs in Hamburg, West Germany, during...
television writer. Subsequently, he began his own late-night talk show The Pete Holmes Show (2013–2014), which ran on TBS for two seasons in the time-slot...
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Hurricanes when he was asked to join the Beatles in August 1962, replacing PeteBest. In addition to the Beatles' films, Starr has acted in numerous others...
is a 2008 album by The PeteBest Band, released by Lightyear Entertainment and distributed in the US and Canada by EMI. PeteBest plays drums, and co-wrote...
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– John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Stuart Sutcliffe and PeteBest – during their early days in Hamburg. Kirchherr met artist Stuart Sutcliffe...
the cellar of Mona Best's house. Aspinall later rented a room in the house and became very good friends with then-Beatle PeteBest. The Beatles had previously...
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you. I will not be allowed to love and trust everybody. This is better. Pete. P.S. Stan Polley is a soulless bastard. I will take him with me". Ham had...
remarking that he felt "weird to be this generation's Syd Barrett or PeteBest. But it's pretty cool too." In 2019, he said he believed Cuomo fired him...
including songs with original bass player Stuart Sutcliffe and drummer PeteBest. It is the first in a trilogy of albums with Anthology 2 and Anthology...
to Sutcliffe one night at the Casbah Coffee Club (owned by PeteBest's mother, Mona Best), Lennon and McCartney persuaded him to buy a Höfner President...
Retrieved 20 January 2024. Leigh, Spencer (1998). Drummed Out: The Sacking of PeteBest. Northdown. ISBN 978-1900711043. Barry Cohen (15 September 2000). "Writer...
being called up for national service. He was replaced in the group by PeteBest. After finishing his time in the national service he played with several...
of 2022, Texas Pete is the seventh-best selling hot sauce in the U.S., according to Instacart, an online grocery service. Texas Pete hot sauce was introduced...
Mona Best, mother of early Beatles drummer PeteBest, in the cellar of the family home, the Casbah was planned as a members-only club for her sons Pete and...
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