The Pete Best Band now consists of two drummers, Pete and Roag, and four young musicians, Mark Hay, Phil Melia, Chris Cavanagh and Dave Deevey.

P ete Best (83), the first drummer of the Beatles, is ending his music career at age 83. The drummer, who was replaced in the iconic band by Ringo Starr (84), will no longer perform with his Pete ...

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 ...

Pete Best is putting his drumsticks down for good. The original drummer for The Beatles, 83, is retiring after a long career in the music industry. “Well what an absolutely wonderful ride we ...

One of modern music history’s best-known accounts of what could have been, Pete Best was The Beatles‘ first drummer.. Best was dropped from the band by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George ...

Pete Best — who was the Beatles original drummer — believes the Fab Four wouldn’t have missed a beat if he had not been 86’d all those years ago.

When Pete Best was ousted as Beatles drummer by Ringo, he attempted suicide - before finding happiness as a pin-striped civil servant. Now he's back with his own band, ...

Pete Best: I had not a clue. That was the furthest thing from my mind. My biggest thought was getting together the right money and right managers, not making it to the top of the English hit parade.

Pete Best was the original drummer for The Beatles. Best, like the rest of The Beatles, grew up in Liverpool. His mother ran the Casbah Club, where The Beatles frequently played.

On August 16, 1962 Pete Best was asked by The Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein, to leave the band. Shortly after Best was sacked, they hired Ringo Starr, completing the legendary line-up of the Fab ...