Pete Best attends The Beatles Exhibition during the 080 Barcelona Fashion S/S 2010 show on Sept. 2, 2009 in Barcelona, Spain. Miquel Benitez/WireImage.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Now, the rooms upstairs have been turned into suites named after John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Pete Best and the original bass player Stuart Sutcliffe - but not Ringo Starr.

By the time drummer Pete Best joined and Lennon convinced Stuart Sutcliffe to purchase a bass guitar, they had gone through several names. As a quintet, they took on a new moniker. The Beatles ...

Now, the rooms upstairs have been turned into suites named after John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Pete Best and the original bass player Stuart Sutcliffe - but not Ringo Starr.