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 EMD Artist Representation - Entertainment ~ Pete Best
Pete Best is famous as the original drummer for the most important group in the history of recorded music.
Pete Best was born in Madras, India in 1941.
The presentation by Pete Best is a rare chance to bring the audience together with a major player in the chronology of The Beatles' early years as they moved toward their appointment with fame.
www.emd.ca /artists/petebest.html   (3816 words)

  
 Pete Best, Bealtles. The Beatles Pete Best
The Beatles, The Silver Beatles and Pete Best with The Beatles in Hamburg, Hambourg, Liverpool and Germany.
Pete is known as the 5th Beatle, Fifth Beatle, which ensures that the 5th Beatle and the Casbah, The Casbah Coffee Club and Silver Beatle, The Quarrymen and Pete Best the 5th Beatle or Pete Best Fifth Beatle.
The Silver Beatles, The Pete Best Four, Pete Best and The All Stars, and The Pete Best Four The Pete Best 4 with Epstein and Brian Epstein with Pete Best Combo.
www.petebest.com   (257 words)

  
 Pete Best
Peter Randolph Best (born November 24, 1941) was an early drummer for The Beatles from Madras, India.
The son of 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.
He stayed until shortly after their first audition for EMI in 1962, being fired on August 16 that year to be replaced, for musical reasons, by Ringo Starr, then of Rory Storm and the Hurricanes.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pe/Pete_Best.html   (120 words)

  
 Pete Best - Biography - AOL Music
Most fans don't know that Best did continue to perform and record for a few years, usually as the leader of his own group, and usually for cheapo companies eager to exploit his notoriety as an ex-Beatle.
Using New York City as their base, the Pete Best Combo, as they were now called, recorded quite a bit of studio material there in the mid-'60s.
Best took a job in a bakery before embarking upon a career as a civil servant, recording what basically amounted to souvenir albums in the 1990s, and going on a year-long tour after his retirement from Liverpool's employment service in 1994.
music.aol.com /artist/pete-best/15788/biography   (702 words)

  
 Pete Best Portfolio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Pete Best, born Randolph Peter Best in Madras, India on November 24, 1941, joined the Beatles, John, Paul, George, and Stu Sutcliffe, in late 1960.
Pete's mother, Mona Best, ran The Casbah Club, a cellar club in Hayman's Green, where the Beatles had been playing.
Pete was very quiet in Hamburg, he did not partake of the uppers the way everyone else did, and spent alot of his off time out of the company of the others.
www.beatlesagain.com /bpete.html   (432 words)

  
 Interview With Pete Best
Pete Best was the drummer for The Beatles from 1960 - 1962.
Pete Best is currently the subject of a new DVD cleverly titled "The Best Of The Beatles".
She called up, I was upstairs in the bathroom, and said "Pete, you better come down and listen to this, John's been murdered." At that moment in time, I didn't realize which John.
www.classicbands.com /PeteBestInterview.html   (2719 words)

  
 Stu and Pete - Stu Sutcliffe and Pete Best, early Beatles
Pete got a phone call from Paul McCartney asking him, "How'd you like to come to Hamburg with The Beatles?" Pete was only too pleased to accept and successfully auditioned for the group at Allan William's club.
Pete Best himself is playing before a sold-out crowd, fronting a rowdy English-pub style band behind a banner that says "Best of the Beatles." It's a cocky gesture, but a fitting and well received one.
After the show, a tired but happy Pete Best was gracious and open, even though he and the band were driving to New York that night to catch a plane to Los Angeles the next morning.
beatlesnumber9.com /stupete.html   (2919 words)

  
 petebest
This was not to be the Pete Best band in concert but the former Beatle alone on stage talking about his time with the Beatles with an opportunity for the audience to ask questions.
Pete said the painted stars alone had been valued at £1000 each and his family were waiting for the roof to fall in to grab them.
Pete was proud of his efforts on these recordings with the only downside being the tiny one off payment the group received.
abbeyrd.best.vwh.net /petebest.htm   (1832 words)

  
 Beatle Brunch - Pete Best Book
Pete and his brothers are opening the club as a tourist attraction and plan to offer tours and even have guest lecturers, art exhibits and music performances there in the coming months to re-introduce Beatle fans from all over the world to “The Casbah Club”.
Pete: the club opened on the 29th of August 1959, and the group that opened it, it’s a funny story really, the group that should have opened it, should have been the Les Stewart Quartet, of which George Harrison and Ken Brown were members.
Pete: We were involved in a couple of other projects and the book was mentioned to him and we said that we’d like to use some of the quotes from the interviews, and he said, “yes”, he would approve them.
www.brunchradio.com /Features/Articles/petebest.html   (3846 words)

  
 Pete Best - Bill Harry - Mersey Beat
Pete and his wife Kathy were living in Haymans Green, but one night when Kathy was visiting his mother, Pete became terribly depressed and attempted to gas himself.
Pete then received an unexpected piece of good fortune when it was revealed that the Beatles new ‘Anthology’ double CD, set for release in November, would contain several tracks on which Pete made an appearance.
The Sacking of Pete Best’, published by Northdown Publishing in 1998, ‘The Best Years of the Beatles’, which I wrote with Pete was published by Headline in 1998 and ‘The Beatles: The True Beginnings’ by Roag, Pete and Rory Best was published by Spine in 2002.
www.triumphpc.com /mersey-beat/a-z/petebest5.shtml   (1017 words)

  
 WKSU News: Interview with early Beatle Pete Best
Pete Best and the Beatles recorded four songs for EMI that summer but none were deemed fit for release.
Best went on to front his own groups such as The Pete Best Four and The Pete Best Combo through 1968.
Pete Best is at peace with the path that his life took and he understands his place in Beatle history.
www.wksu.org /news/story/17790   (1460 words)

  
 A Night With Pete Best
Pete began with some early history of the Casbah Coffee Club in Liverpool which, as it turns out, was created in the basement of his family home by his mother Mona "Mo" Best.
Best seized the opportunity afford by the rock and roll fervor that was developing with regard to the popularity of beat clubs emerging all over Liverpool in the late 1950s.
In response to a question from the audience, Pete Best made a point of mentioning that there was some folklore that had characterized Stu Sutcliffe as a shy individual who was a poor bass player.
www.rickresource.com /rrp/petebest.html   (983 words)

  
 CANOE -- JAM! Music: Interview with Pete Best
Equally eyebrow-raising was Best's recollection of the night in Hamburg, Germany, in the early 1960s when the four lads from Liverpool tried to mug a sailor.
Pete and John hurried back to where they were staying and met up with Paul and George again.
After what happened to Pete Best, if he can laugh and lead a happy life, surrounded by family and loyal friends, there really is no excuse for the rest of us.
jam.canoe.ca /Music/2005/10/16/1264163.html   (1210 words)

  
 Pete Best - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Randolph Peter Best (born 24 November 1941 in Madras, India) was the original drummer for The Beatles.
Best therefore was not privy to many of the group's experiences, references, in-jokes and developing sense of style; when the band adopted the mop-top-style Beatle haircut, Best did not follow suit.
Best then relocated to the United States — along with two songwriting musicians from The Remo Four, Wayne Bickerton and Tony Waddington — as The Pete Best Four, and did some recording for small labels.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pete_Best   (1405 words)

  
 Pete Best   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Pete Best whose place with the group was taken by Ringo Starr, fronted his own group, the Pete Best Combo, at a teen dance, at the Aud.*
Pete Best was with the Beatles for three and a half years.
BEST EXPLAINED that at the time he was the most popular Beatle, and "a certain member of the group" didn't like this.
beatles.ncf.ca /petebest.html   (477 words)

  
 Metroactive Music | Pete Best
Best, who brings his Beatles cover band to Fairfax this week, was there at the beginning.
Before Brian Epstein came on the scene, Best's mother served as de facto manager for the group she called "Pete's band." The girls loved Pete, but the rap (from his mom and others) was that the remaining Beatles were jealous of the charismatic drummer's good looks.
Stung by the slight, Best passed up a chance to join the Merseybeats, another Liverpool band in Epstein's stable of pop acts, and took to pounding the skins for the now-obscure Lee Curtis and the Allstars (a gig arranged secretly by the guilt-ridden Epstein).
www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/08.10.05/best-0532.html   (557 words)

  
 The Pete Best Interview
Pete Best is undoubtedly the most famous Beatle outside of the Fab Four.
After the interview, Pete and his youngest brother Roag were introduced to us and the five of us sat down and just chatted for, what seemed like hours.
Pete has a very good memory because he remembers signing a card for the twins of our Pete when they met a few years ago.
www.iol.ie /~beatlesireland/irish/irish1/petebestinterview.htm   (1136 words)

  
 Pete Best Talks
Pete Best was the drummer for the band in their formative years of the very early 60's, which included three trips to Germany.
However, in retrospect, Best actually drummed for the band far longer than Starr, as measured in on stage man-hours.
Pete: Basically what happened is that it is a lot of influences.
articles.absoluteelsewhere.net /Articles/pete_best_talks.html   (673 words)

  
 THE ARTS / Pete Best: once a Beatle, always a Beatle
That his role as a Beatle is usually downplayed remains as mysterious to Best as his ouster from the band on June 6, 1962, only weeks before the burst of Beatlemania.
A chance was exactly what Best felt robbed of when his best friends abandoned him to become the most influential rock group in the universe.
Best's older brother, Rory, stopped him, and the moment served as a major turning point in his life.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/06/28/NB22288.DTL   (1086 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Beatle!: The Pete Best Story: Books: Pete Best,Patrick Doncaster   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Pete Best was with the Beatles during the early sixties, when they had yet to hit the big time.
Pete Best sounds like a true, honest to goodness gentleman, and I must admit that his firing is by far one of the more seedier, dirtier chapters of Beatle lore.
As far as Pete's drumming goes, a Keith Moon he was not, but he did what was required and being a drummer myself, I think the whole thing about not being good enough was a wrong assesment.
www.amazon.com /Beatle-Pete-Best-Story/dp/0859653013   (1848 words)

  
 Pete Best
This will be Pete’s first ever UK show signing and comes immediatly after his latest UK tour which finishes on the Friday evening.
Pete was very quiet in Hamburg, he did not partake of the uppers the way everyone else did, and spent a lot of his off time out of the company of the others.
As the last night of Pete’s UK tour is Friday 9th May it is expected that Pete will not be available until around 12pm on the Saturday, and all day on Sunday.
www.autographica.co.uk /html/pete_best.html   (491 words)

  
 Pete Best - Best of the Beatles
Pete Best - Best of the Beatles (2005)
With a sharp memory and a surprising lack of bitterness, Best fondly recalls the band's formation and early gigs in Germany and Liverpool.
For Pete Best - Best of the Beatles
www.rottentomatoes.com /m/pete_best_best_of_the_beatles   (381 words)

  
 The Pete Best Band   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
I saw the Pete Best Band for the first time on July 4, 2002 in Sonoma, CA.
The reason for his dismissal from the Beatles, who were on the verge of becoming one of the most prolific bands in history, will forever be argued among fans.
Today, the Pete Best Band takes you back....back to the days in Hamburg where the Beatles cut their musical teeth performing hours on end to a raucous crowd in Germany.
www.bestyearsofthebeatles.com /pete_best_band.htm   (516 words)

  
 Pete Best Interview Video Tape
Rare and Unreleased Jim Ladd (L.A. Disc Jockey) interview with Pete Best, previous drummer for the Beatles.
The interview is awesome and Jim asks some hard questions about the split between Pete and the Beatles and his replacement by Ringo.
The Beatles played at a small club called the Indra, then moved to the Kaiserkeller where they were second on the bill to Rory Storm and the Hurricanes.
www.eskimo.com /~bpentium/beatles/besttape/besttape.html   (1144 words)

  
 NPR : 'Fifth Beatle' Pete Best
Fresh Air from WHYY, September 2, 2003 · Pete Best was the drummer for The Beatles in their early days in Liverpool and Hamburg.
His mother, Mona Best, was the owner of The Casbah Coffee Club in Liverpool.
Best has just co-written a large-format book, The Beatles: The True Beginnings (by Roag Best with Pete and Rory Best).
www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1417891   (157 words)

  
 Creative Loafing - Creative Loafing Atlanta: Music: Feature: The Beatle goes on
The package for the Best of the Beatles documentary DVD, to be released internationally in September, describes Best as "mean, moody and magnificent," and the soft-spoken musician certainly doesn't discount his beginnings.
He didn't become an international sensation like his mates, but while real Beatlemania was raging, he had modest success with the Pete Best Four and a satisfying 25-year career as counselor with the British Civil Service.
Today, Best, one of only six people -- living or dead -- who can claim to have been a member of the Beatles, retells his tumultuous tale without a trace of regret.
atlanta.creativeloafing.com /gyrobase/Content?oid=oid:101510   (763 words)

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