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Pete Best, the original Beatles drummer before Ringo Starr, announced his retirement on April 6. He performed with the ...
Pete Best is putting his drumsticks down for good. The original drummer for The Beatles, 83, is retiring after a decades-long career in the music industry. “Well what an absolutely wonderful ride ...
For many years he has run his own group, The Pete Best Band and they had been pencilled in to play the Beatles Museum in Liverpool this coming August. However, his bandmate (and half-brother) Roag ...
His family owned the Casbah Coffee Club, where he was spotted playing by Sir Paul and persuaded to join The Beatles – who had no permanent drummer – in Hamburg for a series of gigs.
The Beatles’ original drummer Pete Best has officially retired from music at the age of 83. Best, who formed the Fab Four in ...
Drummer Zak Starkey said he is “surprised and saddened” in his first comments since he was kicked out of the Hall of Fame ...
Best, now 83, shared the post and wrote on his own account: "I had a blast. Thank you." Best's band was scheduled to perform a concert at Liverpool Beatles Museum, but it has now ...