Pete Best was an early drummer for
The Beatles. 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. This led to a falling out with both
John Lennon and with
Paul McCartney.
After a series of jobs outside music, Best eventually found a modicum of independent fame as leader of Pete Best Four.
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