From performance to recording and arranging, McCartney said the group found ways to make themselves a little different from the competition ...

When he and his mates decided to form a skiffle group, Lennon served as vocalist and lead guitar alongside Eric Griffiths on rhythm guitar, Pete Shotton on washboard, and Bill Smith on tea chest bass.

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 ...

You Can Stay at the Club Where the Beatles Played Some of Their Earliest Gigs One-time Beatle Pete Best and his brother have turned the legendary Casbah Coffee Club into an Airbnb ...

More than 60 years after Pete Best was ejected from The Beatles and replaced by Ringo Starr, reasons for the ouster continue to be a matter of conjecture. He wasn’t a good enough drummer.

From the powerful bass tone on 1964's You Really Got Me to their last album, 1993's Phobia, smart low-end was a key ingredient of the Kinks sound.And though Pete Quaife rightly gets credit for ...

Original Beatles drummer Pete Best has announced his retirement from the music industry at the age of 83. His brother Roag announced on X this past Saturday that he’s dropping out of the public ...

Pete Best is stepping away from the spotlight. On Sunday, Best — who was the original Beatles drummer before Ringo Starr — confirmed that he is stepping away from public appearances and ...

Original Beatles drummer Pete Best has announced his retirement from the music industry at the age of 83.. His brother Roag announced on X this past Saturday that he’s dropping out of the public ...

Pete was forced out by producers at EMI (Picture: Sayle/Mirrorpix/Getty Images) At this time, the group included Stuart Sutcliffe on bass (Sir Paul was originally on rhythm guitar with Lennon ...

Beatles fans can stay the night in one of the band’s first gig venues. ... George Harrison, Pete Best and the original bass player Stuart Sutcliffe - but not Ringo Starr.