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| | Pete Best - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27) |
 | | The son of Mona Best, the owner of Liverpool's Casbah Club, where the Beatles played occasionally, Best was first invited to join the band in 1959, later rejoining for their 1960–1961 residency in Hamburg. |
 | | The reason given was that George Martin, who was to become the Beatles' producer, had been dissatisfied with Best's drumming (which was solid, but lacking in flair or "chops", as evidenced by surviving tapes) and intended to replace him on their recordings. |
 | | (Indeed, Martin did use a studio drummer, Andy White, on their first single session, having no chance to audition Starr beforehand.) The decision appears to have been a last straw with the group, who felt Best had never completely fit in as a member. |
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