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  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)

  
 The Pete Best Four - The Pete Best Combo
The Pete Best Four - The Pete Best Combo
After his controversial dismissal from the drummers seat with The Beatles in August 1962, Best joined another Liverpool group, Lee Curtis and The All Stars.
This line-up, calling themselves The Pete Best Combo, toured America during that year and also recorded an album for the American Cameo label entitled "Best Of The Beatles", obviously aimed at cashing in on Best's former association with another bunch of Liverpudlians.
www.geocities.com /fabgear6366/best.htm   (253 words)

  
 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)

  
 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)

  
 'Best of the Beatles'
Pete's story reveals the unlikely chain of events that led to his becoming the drummer in the Beatles in the first place: his mum, the formidable Mona, pawned all her jewelry and placed a 33-to-one bet on a horse called "Never Say Die." The horse won.
Pete Best: Well when the office of work came in, after my dismissal, numerous decisions later, there was an up and coming band in Liverpool, Lee Curtis and the All Stars, and I thought it would be interesting to start with a band with a lot of potential that I could do something with.
Pete Best: I was very close to Stu as I mentioned before, he was a great guy with a great personalilty and his contribution to the band was immense.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/discussion/2005/09/23/DI2005092301262_pf.html   (3826 words)

  
 Pete Best, Bealtles. The Beatles Pete Best   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Pete formally auditioned, became a Beatle on 12th August 1960 and left for Germany with John, Paul, George and Stuart.
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 Beatles played at the Casbah with the Beatles in the Pete Best and the Beatles, The drummer Pete Best is the Beatles Drummer in the Early Years.
www.petebest.com /1960.asp   (424 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
Pete was to tell Mersey Beat "The news came as a big surprise to me as I had had no hint that it could happen and didn’t even have the opportunity of discussing it with the rest of the group".
Pete and his wife, Kathy, were living in Hayman's Green, but one night when Kathy was visiting her mother, Pete became terribly depressed and attempted to gas himself.
Pete Best 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.
www.beatlesireland.utvinternet.com /zBeatlesfactfiles/factfilesx1/TheBests/PeteBest.htm   (4938 words)

  
 Pete Best Interview Video Tape
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 was encouraged to be included in a singing spot in the act.
Pete learned about the Decca rejection weeks after the others knew, "I was hurt because I was the last to about it" said Pete.
www.eskimo.com /~bpentium/beatles/besttape/besttape.html   (1144 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   (1452 words)

  
 PeteRose.com – Biography
Pete was encouraged as a young boy to participate in sports.
He consistently batted over.300 and Pete was an important component to the "Big Red Machine" that dominated the National League in the 1970's.
Pete totaled an amazing 4,256 hits by the time of his retirement.
www.peterose.com /bio.htm   (504 words)

  
 Re-Elect Pete Stark for Congress
Pete provides a consistent voice for tax fairness.  He opposed directing the Bush tax cuts exclusively to the wealthiest Americans and is working to defeat continued attempts by Republicans to make those tax cuts permanent.
While issues related to health care, taxes and the economy are important, equally vital to Pete and to the citizens of the 13th Congressional district, are the issues of world peace, freedom of choice, education, and the environment.
Pete has been a tireless advocate for children, senior citizens and people with disabilities.
www.petestark.com /about.html   (545 words)

  
 Pete Rickards the pioneer and innovator of Indian Buck Lure - Home
Pete discovered the secret of consistently successful deer hunting was over coming a deer's acute sense of smell.
Pete Rickard remains forever the innovator His revolutionary Four Phases of Scent Control is a system based on sound field studies.
Pete Passed away in 2002 after 60 years of providing quality products and innovations to the hunting and trapping industry, but his legacy lives on in his foresight and love for the outdoors.
www.peterickard.com   (276 words)

  
 6 My Pete page
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 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.
petes music career didn't end when he left the beatles he went on to form a few different bands.the pete best combo and the pete best four.
originalonefeather.tripod.com /id8.html   (428 words)

  
 BookPage Interview August 2003: Pete Best
One of them, Pete, has for 40 years been the most enigmatic of all who have been touched by the aura of the Fab Four.
It was Mona Best who turned her basement into a coffee bar, named it the Casbah and installed the prototype Beatles as its resident act.
Fortunately, Pete's youngest brother Roag had squirreled away newspaper clips, photos and boxes of junk that would turn out to be not only valuable but, improbably, beautifully photogenic—a ratty pink hat from the band's run at Hamburg's Kaiserkeller, owlish round glasses that John wore while helping to paint the Casbah ceiling.
www.bookpage.com /0308bp/pete_best.html   (644 words)

  
 CMT.com : Four Tunes : Biography
Watson, Pat Best, Jimmy Gordon, and Jimmie Nabbie were the founding lineup.
Best and Watson's composition "I Love You for Sentimental Reasons" became a smash for Nat "King" Cole and several other performers, while Nabbie's "You Are My Love" was a hit for Jonie James.
The Four Tunes did score a pair of triumphs themselves, with "Marie" peaking at number two on the R&B charts (number 13 pop) in 1953 and "I Understand Just How You Feel" becoming a number seven R&B hit in 1954.
www.cmt.com /artists/az/four_tunes/bio.jhtml   (220 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   (1206 words)

  
 Pete Best   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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)

  
 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)

  
 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)

  
 Pete Best, Chevelle, CSN and more
Vocalist/guitarist Pete and bassist Joe parted ways with their drummer brother Sam due to "irreconcilable differences." No word as to who has replaced him.
Pete Best, the Beatles' original drummer, became a Beatle on Aug. 12, 1960.
Monday, Best comes to Bodles for the first time with his band, the Pete Best Band, a throwback to the Fab Four's Hamburg days from 1960-62.
archive.recordonline.com /archive/2005/07/29/mbrfs29.htm   (421 words)

  
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Pete Best will be appearing as a guest at The Berlin Beatles Festival at the Estrel Hotel on the 16th and 17th of July 2005.
Pete Best has formed a TV and film production company called "Best Wishes Productions." Their first production is a TV documentary entitled "Best Of The Beatles." Producers are looking for people who were there in the early days and have stories about the early Beatles.
Pete Best.Com Update: PeteBest.com has given Pete Best fans around the world the opportunity to ask Pete questions regarding his time with the Beatles, thorough his web site forum at Pete's reply which is based at http://www.petebest.com/forum/display_forum_topics.asp?ForumID=12.
abbeyrd.best.vwh.net /news/petebestband.html   (12386 words)

  
 Pete Best, Liverpool, 1986
There are only four Beatles left alive in the world, and you're one of them.
George Harrison said the best music the Beatles ever made was in Hamburg when you were their drummer.
Bob Gallo once told me recently that the album you did with him [Best of the Beatles] didn't really work because there was still a bad taste in the mouth of some of the fans.
members.tripod.com /~holysm0ke/Best2.html   (3417 words)

  
 VH1.com : Pete Best : Biography - Urge Music Downloads
Best only recorded one 1963 single with them before Curtis & the All Stars went their separate ways.
Then follows the strangest part of the Best saga, as the group were flown over to the United States by a shady promoter.
Best, although nominally the group's leader, again did nothing but drum.
www.vh1.com /artists/az/best_pete/bio.jhtml   (702 words)

  
 Welcome to Lelands.com - Lot 19. 1962 Beatles Signed Photo with Pete Best
However, the picture shows that Best didn't go along with the hair thing, and this may be an indicator of why Epstein axed him (though he did set him up with an other band, the All Stars, who became the Pete Best Four).
Beatle historians point out that Best was actually the most popular Beatle, especially among the girls, at the time for his James Dean-like looks, and Best may have acted like too much of the antihero rebel for Epstein's tastes, not to mention that he also couldn't sing and was a lousy drummer.
In any case, the period from August 1960 to August 1962 is the "Pete Best" period, a hot commodity for collectors.
www.lelands.com /bid.aspx?lot=19&auctionid=505   (420 words)

  
 On My Liverpool Beat - Mersey Beat
Pete Best tells me one of his long-term ambitions - one which probably won't come about for some time yet - is to live for several years in America.
But he had already thrown in his lot with the other members of the Pete Best Four: Wayne Bickerton, Tony Waddington and Tommy McGuirk.
By the way, Pete may well get the satisfaction of spending a few weeks in the States in the fairly near future.
triumphpc.com /mersey-beat/a-z/liverpool-beat7.shtml   (904 words)

  
 Best Apartments In St Pete Beach
Apartments in St. Pete Beach get snatched up quickly, which means that timing can be everything.
Pete Beach can be an unnerving task, especially when the options are as many and as varied as in the St.
Pete Beach it's a good idea to delineate what you're looking for and to prioritize those desires.
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 Pete Anderson - Blue Hour Lounge
Pete, I read the online article that your buddy, Mike Hooper, wrote about your Blues music background, specifically Muddy Waters and BB King covers.
Pete Anderson's tone is so unique in that it almost comes off "uncivilized" at times.
Thank you for your time and best of luck on all your projects.
www.peteanderson.com /lounge3.html   (2253 words)

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