Ok, the truth is 1. Pete wasn't a good drummer because he tried to play like all the others and Ringo had his own style, generally using flams and a strong kick. 2. Pete was a damn good looking kid and Paul and John heard the girls shouting his name instead of theirs and well, you get that. And finally 3. He wouldn't get rid of the duckbill hairdo as Brian asked him to. Pete was a huge Elvis fan and it cost him his future. I talked to him in 2008 here in Austin, Texas.
He was kicked out of the group because he wasn't a very good drummer. Some people say that he was unlucky that he got booted. He was unlucky in that he wasn't born w/ enough drumming talent.
You whinging pack of pricks...if Pete was such a mammoth talent,why didnt he rise to the greatness that was denied him...wankers...at the time he was punted they hadnt even released a single and had no way of knowing what lay ahead...get over it
@archiethomas1000 Well, they would say that, wouldn't they? Ringo wasn't the best drummer in the world - but then again, he wasn't even the best drummer in The Beatles! I've never read a single quote where anyone in the music business or anywhere else for that matter has rated Ringo as a great (or even a good) drummer. :/
@Jazzigator Rolling stone magazine voted him as the 5th best drummer of all time and the rest of that John Lennon quote went on to say that he was joking and that the Beatles wouldn't be the Beatles without Ringo. Pete went for the good of the band.
Pete,you will always represent an integral piece of what made up The Beatles (especially when looking back on the Hamburg experience). Absolutely no one can ever take that &/or all that was developing during your hang with them from YOU or the History books. You are a true gentleman, & a total class act !!
Ringo was that good a drummer he didn't even play on there 1st hit "Love Me Do", in fact he was demoted to tambourine, Pete Best was thrown out because he wasn't conforming to Lennon & McCartney's ways (even the haircut) and also he was attracting more females than them even although Lennon was married.
For fuck sake...it happens in every bloody band on earth.....is this bullshit still going on?
He wasnt the only bloke to have drummed with them in the early days...read Alan Williams book....Norman Chapman,Tommy Moore...and others...Ringo was the drummer...get over it
@thesuperduperbloke Chapman & Moore, yes may have been ex drummers of the Beatles and other incarnations (late 50's/very early 1960), but Best was with them when they were on the cusp of going national then eventually global, to have snatched away from you must be like having the winning lottery numbers then finding out you've lost the ticket, Lennon & McCartney were terrific songwriters but arseholes as people.
@xtrmsprts and he waited how long? Forty years? Wow, that was worth waiting for. The Beatles had made nearly a billion! So, yeah, a million was worth the wait.
@crosscatch the beatles also did more than just hang around in shanty hamburg clubs .... this boy would have fizzled out by the momentum of the beatles career. that's besides the point though. Imagine being a shitkicker from liverpool, making crummy drum music and then get getting paid for some 5-10 min shit you did like a billion yrs ago under the directions of others. i think that's a lottery.
The Beatles cut their teeth during those long, grueling gigs in Hamburg. Pete was there all through that ramp up to notoriety. All that work he put into that band, only to get a cold-blooded boot in the ass. I can understand going with Ringo, but I just don't get how the other Beatles excommunicated Pete like that. The least they could've done was give the guy a fucking call. Maybe give his subsequent band some opening slots or something. All that time together in the early days and they never
@TheDeans I read Philip Norman's book, JOHN LENNON: The Life. Norman was an admirer of Lennon, and he collaberrated with Yoko Ono, Paul McCartney, and other relevant figures in Lennon's life. The book was shocking in its revelations: I could barely bring myself to finish it. Creative genius or not, it will change your mind about him AND the other Beatles. He behaved horrendously to others - even his own son, Julian, when a small boy. Please read the book: none of it is opinion - all stated fact.
This is a special man and is so down to earth. He hold's no bad feeling's concerning what happened from how it seems. he is still a really nice looking man. Bless Pete's mom Mona who helped them by letting them entertain in her place
Pete Best is a great fellow indeed. It wasn't in the stars for him to be a part of the Beatles unfortunately. It was meant to be Ringo. Ringo came up with key expressions that became signpost songs such as A Hard Day's Night, Eight Days A Week and Tomorrow Never Knows. He was the everyman element that flavoured songs like With A Little Help From My Friends. In the movies, from A Hard Day's Night and Help to the animated Yellow Submarine, Ringo was the focus and was very good fun.
@julbim Well written and that perfectly sums it up. There can be no "Beatles" without Ringo Starr. There was a good reason for making him the focal point of their first two movies. Who can watch Ringo and not have at least half a smile (like he has) on his or her face? The drumming, of course, speaks for itself. He was a percussive machine set to The Beatles beat. A style all of his own and one that can baffle the best of drummers. He was, and is, the one and only...
@obbor4 Thank you for your kind response. If I hadn't run out of permitted text characters I would have raved about Ringo's unique, indeed if it is possible, melodic drumming. There's an early take of Hello Goodbye where Ringo's drumming is blisteringly brilliant...but it always is. From the great playing on Please Please Me to his magnificent skin and cymbal selections throughout Abbey Road. He was and is a fabulous MUSICIAN, not just 'drummer'. The other Beatles loved what he added.
@calisongbird I had not thought of that. Yes his hair was curly. Pete is a very affable man and very likeable. He missed out on the biggest act in history but it was never going to happen for him anyway. He just did not fit. It is apparent in this interview.
The reson fo his dismissal is kinda easy, not doing at all with musicianship: They got along better with Ringo, and Mccartney's HUGE ego fit more comfortably with a less good looking drummer than Pete Best.... no need to be a fine musician to be in a big band, just befriend them, right Andy Fletcher (Depeche)?
John, Paul and George considered Pete an "OK" drummer, but nothing special. When they first heard Ringo in Rory Storm's band, they were knocked out. But they couldn't afford him, Rory's band had better gigs then. When the Beatles got their first record deal, they had something to offer Ringo.
@vera577 I was referring to your use of a double comparative as a gross grammatical error, seeing as "better" is the correct comparative form of "good" and the addition of "more" is redundant; however, you would rather spew ignorant bull shit at me.
Apparently, you are the one that needs to read more books.
@vera577 for a "gay" Ringo has spent a lot of his life being married to and having children with women continiously!strange behaviour for a "gay" hahahahahaha
@onlyjoetee Well, David Bowie was bisexual in his early days - everyone knows that, and is now happily married to the model, Iman - one of the most beautiful women in the world. He met his first wife, Angie, in the 60s when they "were both seeing the same guy" unquote; in Bowie's own words in a magazine interview. I mean, there may be no truth in it, but we cannot discount anything just because that's how it looks to us. Maybe I just can't stand Ringo, but who can?
@Jazzigator i can,so can zillions of fans world wide.Ringo Starr is my fav drummer of all time ever,the who's kit and style i copy when i play.Fantastic unique drummer,didnt hit the drum,sort of swiped it.Great personality,exactly how a drummer should be.I dont really care who Bowie sleeps with
People love Pete... not a bad word said about him. He appears to be a pretty successful musician in his own right to be fair - always working and putting on great shows.
Pete's a lovely man, shame he had the emotional fall out to deal with but history's proved - I'm sure even with Petes agreement - that they made the right move, if any cog in the Beatles was out we wouldn't be talking about them now, Ringo had the charisma and spot-on personality to balance the 4 of them
ringo ended up w/ the beatles in the end as it was meant to be and that's that. pete seems like a nice fellow, and so be it. enough w/ judging the beatles on why they fired best... move on!
No one can state the real motives behind the sacking of Pete, except of course Paul. He's the only living creature who actually KNOWS! So, until he decides to talk truthfully about the whole affair, all we have are every Tom, Dick & Harry's imaginative assumptions.
Lets face it, for all the money and success of the Beatles would you kick out the drummer out of your band ? well I would kick out even 10 drummers for half of that...
The firing of Pete Best had more to do with him not being close with the other Beatles. Even Stu Sutcliffe wasn't a great bass player, yet he was Lennon's buddy and was in the group if he wanted to stay. George Martin wanted to get rid of Ringo too, because his paying was shaky at the time. Ringo did get better and by 1966 had refined his craft. Had the rest of the Beatles not pleaded with George Martin to keep Ringo they might have had a session drummer join the band.
@steamingpoopfart George Martin apologized to Ringo years later for wanting to replace him too. The rest of the Beatles came to Ringo's defense because they liked him not because of his drumming ability.
@steamingpoopfart Martin did not want best out! Martin wanted a session drummer on records, but wanted Best to stay for live gigs! Starr was not the best drummer in Liverpool, at least according to merseybeat magazine, and was never as popular as Pete Best in Liverpool. In 1963 Best joined Lee Curtis and The All Stars and they were voted second best band in Liverpool to The Beatles simply because Pete Best was their drummer. Ringo never had that kind of fan base!
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Well Pete it's not all bad you could've married Heather Mills.....
srdmagic 2 days ago
Many people forget that Pete was the forth member of the band.
Ringo was the fifth.
Even the band forgot him.
AlekSensej 1 week ago
@AlekSensej Pete was the 5th Stuart Sutcliffe was the 4th and all those guys from the quarrymen are disregarded
zeztro 3 hours ago
He used to be fantastic in Brookside. Show was never the same after he left.
RyanDunnsLostSneaker 1 week ago
and by the way.. ringo doesn't like this video LOL
musikdoktor 1 week ago
My god! I'm derf from my rigt ear... :S
musikdoktor 1 week ago
Forgetting Ringo, Pete looks like a chuckle brother
alexinitalics 3 weeks ago
If I was Ringo, I would bring him on tour.
peopleofthecircle 1 month ago
Ok, the truth is 1. Pete wasn't a good drummer because he tried to play like all the others and Ringo had his own style, generally using flams and a strong kick. 2. Pete was a damn good looking kid and Paul and John heard the girls shouting his name instead of theirs and well, you get that. And finally 3. He wouldn't get rid of the duckbill hairdo as Brian asked him to. Pete was a huge Elvis fan and it cost him his future. I talked to him in 2008 here in Austin, Texas.
taypar11 1 month ago
heeey! 10,000 maniacs came from jamestown, ny!
i also drove through it a lot when i was hiiiigh as shiiiit.
(jamestown cops are little BITCHES.)
iamextremelyawesome 1 month ago
He was kicked out of the group because he wasn't a very good drummer. Some people say that he was unlucky that he got booted. He was unlucky in that he wasn't born w/ enough drumming talent.
bailinnumberguy 1 month ago
"All you have to do is listen to the version of "Love Me Do" on the Anthology to hear why Pete Best was voted out.
comedylaff 1 month ago
@jazzigator...then pull your head out of your arse and read what people like Phil Collins has to say about Ringo...imbecilic fuckwit
thesuperduperbloke 1 month ago
You whinging pack of pricks...if Pete was such a mammoth talent,why didnt he rise to the greatness that was denied him...wankers...at the time he was punted they hadnt even released a single and had no way of knowing what lay ahead...get over it
thesuperduperbloke 1 month ago
pete apesta!
jorgemccerati 1 month ago
The Beatles are scum for the way they treated Pete. Pure scum.
jeepsterrr 1 month ago
Some of the Beatles or one has stated publicly that
Ringo was a better drummer.
archiethomas1000 1 month ago
@archiethomas1000 Well, they would say that, wouldn't they? Ringo wasn't the best drummer in the world - but then again, he wasn't even the best drummer in The Beatles! I've never read a single quote where anyone in the music business or anywhere else for that matter has rated Ringo as a great (or even a good) drummer. :/
Jazzigator 1 month ago
@Jazzigator Rolling stone magazine voted him as the 5th best drummer of all time and the rest of that John Lennon quote went on to say that he was joking and that the Beatles wouldn't be the Beatles without Ringo. Pete went for the good of the band.
alexinitalics 3 weeks ago
Pete,you will always represent an integral piece of what made up The Beatles (especially when looking back on the Hamburg experience). Absolutely no one can ever take that &/or all that was developing during your hang with them from YOU or the History books. You are a true gentleman, & a total class act !!
jbyesterday 2 months ago
Seems like a great guy.
maplespak 2 months ago
My left ear loved this.
nintendoplaya878 2 months ago 6
Ringo was that good a drummer he didn't even play on there 1st hit "Love Me Do", in fact he was demoted to tambourine, Pete Best was thrown out because he wasn't conforming to Lennon & McCartney's ways (even the haircut) and also he was attracting more females than them even although Lennon was married.
RacManRhythm 2 months ago 2
@RacManRhythm Perfectly put.
Jazzigator 1 month ago
pete is a good drummer.. ringo is a good beatle. - jwl.
scrollandkey 2 months ago
@rusty1491...utter bullshit
thesuperduperbloke 2 months ago
For fuck sake...it happens in every bloody band on earth.....is this bullshit still going on?
He wasnt the only bloke to have drummed with them in the early days...read Alan Williams book....Norman Chapman,Tommy Moore...and others...Ringo was the drummer...get over it
thesuperduperbloke 2 months ago
@thesuperduperbloke Chapman & Moore, yes may have been ex drummers of the Beatles and other incarnations (late 50's/very early 1960), but Best was with them when they were on the cusp of going national then eventually global, to have snatched away from you must be like having the winning lottery numbers then finding out you've lost the ticket, Lennon & McCartney were terrific songwriters but arseholes as people.
RacManRhythm 1 month ago
The guy's got class.
guitarpolish7 2 months ago
and some sichophants believe that John Lennon's death was instant karma because of the bad treatment of Pete!
skeaneable 3 months ago
Sound is all muddled for me.
pnutbutrncrackers 3 months ago
Happy Birthday Pete
Calaitafan 3 months ago
Ringo could do him in a fight as well ,so pete bye bye
Xapple09 3 months ago
the dude's a millionaire... when anthology came out, he got a fat check right there of over 1 million pounds
xtrmsprts 3 months ago
@xtrmsprts and he waited how long? Forty years? Wow, that was worth waiting for. The Beatles had made nearly a billion! So, yeah, a million was worth the wait.
crosscatch 3 months ago
@crosscatch the beatles also did more than just hang around in shanty hamburg clubs .... this boy would have fizzled out by the momentum of the beatles career. that's besides the point though. Imagine being a shitkicker from liverpool, making crummy drum music and then get getting paid for some 5-10 min shit you did like a billion yrs ago under the directions of others. i think that's a lottery.
xtrmsprts 3 months ago
The Beatles cut their teeth during those long, grueling gigs in Hamburg. Pete was there all through that ramp up to notoriety. All that work he put into that band, only to get a cold-blooded boot in the ass. I can understand going with Ringo, but I just don't get how the other Beatles excommunicated Pete like that. The least they could've done was give the guy a fucking call. Maybe give his subsequent band some opening slots or something. All that time together in the early days and they never
TheDeans990 3 months ago
@TheDeans I read Philip Norman's book, JOHN LENNON: The Life. Norman was an admirer of Lennon, and he collaberrated with Yoko Ono, Paul McCartney, and other relevant figures in Lennon's life. The book was shocking in its revelations: I could barely bring myself to finish it. Creative genius or not, it will change your mind about him AND the other Beatles. He behaved horrendously to others - even his own son, Julian, when a small boy. Please read the book: none of it is opinion - all stated fact.
Jazzigator 1 month ago
As much as I like their music, that was cruel and cold to kick him out like that. Next year will mark 50 years.
2011lamb 3 months ago
Ringo maybe a Starr but Pete is the Best.
brandon28081 3 months ago 2
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@brandon28081 'Dumbo maybe a Starr but Pete is the Best'.
This!
and Pete's a true scouse lad not a plastic like blingo.
They'd have made it even bigger kept him in the band and Pete's NEVER acted anything other than humble which is the opposite to Starkey.
scatmansmooth 3 months ago
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why cant paul mccartney give pete best a few million as compensation ?
mccartney is so rich he wouldnt even notice it
matchbox555 3 months ago
This is a special man and is so down to earth. He hold's no bad feeling's concerning what happened from how it seems. he is still a really nice looking man. Bless Pete's mom Mona who helped them by letting them entertain in her place
jitterbug121 3 months ago
Pete Best is a great fellow indeed. It wasn't in the stars for him to be a part of the Beatles unfortunately. It was meant to be Ringo. Ringo came up with key expressions that became signpost songs such as A Hard Day's Night, Eight Days A Week and Tomorrow Never Knows. He was the everyman element that flavoured songs like With A Little Help From My Friends. In the movies, from A Hard Day's Night and Help to the animated Yellow Submarine, Ringo was the focus and was very good fun.
julbim 4 months ago
@julbim Well written and that perfectly sums it up. There can be no "Beatles" without Ringo Starr. There was a good reason for making him the focal point of their first two movies. Who can watch Ringo and not have at least half a smile (like he has) on his or her face? The drumming, of course, speaks for itself. He was a percussive machine set to The Beatles beat. A style all of his own and one that can baffle the best of drummers. He was, and is, the one and only...
obbor4 3 months ago
@obbor4 Thank you for your kind response. If I hadn't run out of permitted text characters I would have raved about Ringo's unique, indeed if it is possible, melodic drumming. There's an early take of Hello Goodbye where Ringo's drumming is blisteringly brilliant...but it always is. From the great playing on Please Please Me to his magnificent skin and cymbal selections throughout Abbey Road. He was and is a fabulous MUSICIAN, not just 'drummer'. The other Beatles loved what he added.
julbim 3 months ago
He was never a fit with the band. Never. And it still shows, nice guy but humorless and the hair he'd not change, yadda, yadda, yadda.
jimidee33 4 months ago 2
@jimidee33 as for the hair, he couldn't do the "Beatle" haircut. As Astrid Kirchherr pointed out, Pete's hair was too curly for that.
calisongbird 1 month ago
@calisongbird I had not thought of that. Yes his hair was curly. Pete is a very affable man and very likeable. He missed out on the biggest act in history but it was never going to happen for him anyway. He just did not fit. It is apparent in this interview.
jimidee33 1 month ago
@jimidee33 Yeah, I got to meet him briefly when my husband's band opened for his a few years ago. He's a very nice guy.
calisongbird 1 month ago
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The reson fo his dismissal is kinda easy, not doing at all with musicianship: They got along better with Ringo, and Mccartney's HUGE ego fit more comfortably with a less good looking drummer than Pete Best.... no need to be a fine musician to be in a big band, just befriend them, right Andy Fletcher (Depeche)?
brainslow 4 months ago
Fate is a perfidious traitor to our dreams....
MrMymanalishi 4 months ago
I'm sure he's thinking, "Damn! I could've met the Maharishi!!!!"
rosario508 4 months ago
@TheDiddlysquat Legend has it That Pete Best taught John and Paul how to Write songs...
Lovemyselfidoes81 4 months ago
He looks like Victor Kiriakis from Days of Our Lives
Lovemyselfidoes81 4 months ago
John, Paul and George considered Pete an "OK" drummer, but nothing special. When they first heard Ringo in Rory Storm's band, they were knocked out. But they couldn't afford him, Rory's band had better gigs then. When the Beatles got their first record deal, they had something to offer Ringo.
observer9670 4 months ago 2
@observer9670 thats an interesting point- the economics of the timing. I too had heard they knew about Ringo and had their eye on him.
baseballeddie1177 4 months ago
@observer9670 If that's the case, why did John Lennon say that' Ringo wasn't even the best drummer in the Beatles'.
Raider577 2 months ago
It seems he has made a good career out of getting kicked out of a band--not a bad gig.
surfstomp 4 months ago
Pete was a very stylish drummer for that time!
he played better than ringo!
but he was replaced according financial & political reasons...
and one more thing ! - don't forget, that Epstein & ringo were gays !
and this fact was an additional reason !
vera577 4 months ago
The basic fact was Pete was the heart throb of the band much to the other's chagin!!!!
johnbarry1965 5 months ago
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vera577 5 months ago
@vera577 The sheer amount of stupidity radiating off of your comment is staggering...
Wagtacular 5 months ago
@Wagtacular you are so young and i see you know nothing about this theme...
so, see more documentary films & read the books about it...
but, perhaps, you are a gay also...well, go & fuck with shit ringo ))
vera577 5 months ago
@vera577 I was referring to your use of a double comparative as a gross grammatical error, seeing as "better" is the correct comparative form of "good" and the addition of "more" is redundant; however, you would rather spew ignorant bull shit at me.
Apparently, you are the one that needs to read more books.
Have a good day!
Wagtacular 5 months ago
@vera577 for a "gay" Ringo has spent a lot of his life being married to and having children with women continiously!strange behaviour for a "gay" hahahahahaha
onlyjoetee 5 months ago 5
@onlyjoetee Well, David Bowie was bisexual in his early days - everyone knows that, and is now happily married to the model, Iman - one of the most beautiful women in the world. He met his first wife, Angie, in the 60s when they "were both seeing the same guy" unquote; in Bowie's own words in a magazine interview. I mean, there may be no truth in it, but we cannot discount anything just because that's how it looks to us. Maybe I just can't stand Ringo, but who can?
Jazzigator 1 month ago
@Jazzigator i can,so can zillions of fans world wide.Ringo Starr is my fav drummer of all time ever,the who's kit and style i copy when i play.Fantastic unique drummer,didnt hit the drum,sort of swiped it.Great personality,exactly how a drummer should be.I dont really care who Bowie sleeps with
onlyjoetee 1 month ago
I listened earlier to a song by Pete Best Band called Gone and I was more impressed by that than any recent music by McCartney
45rpmSINGLES 5 months ago
People love Pete... not a bad word said about him. He appears to be a pretty successful musician in his own right to be fair - always working and putting on great shows.
caeo100 6 months ago
I saw him perform in 2011, and he ROCKED! It was the best show on the festival.
Kalle72 6 months ago
@Kalle72 And I must add: I went to the festival only because of the Pete Best Band!
Kalle72 6 months ago
Poor guy i'm so sad for him !
BEATLES4EVER57 6 months ago
Any former member of a band that goes on to success finds theirself in the same position, except in this case it was so magnified.
JeffersonDinedAlone 6 months ago
Shame on them for sacking Pete Best. They ought to pay him money now
for screwing him out of a career then. Jealousy, his looks and followers, heard
it was John who conived the others to hire Ringo. I like Ringo, but hate the
dirty way they canned Pete. Pay UP PAUL!
Also, let the Lennon, Harrison and Starr estates pay him. He should have sued
them, he got screwed!
wjv4me 6 months ago
@wjv4me Dude pete best if the worst drummer ever just cuz ur gay for pete doesnt mean u have to say his better than ringo
Wogleumpoo 6 months ago 2
Shame on them for sacking Pete Best. They ought to pay him money now
for screwing him out of a career then. Jealousy, his looks and followers, heard
it was John who conived the others to hire Ringo. I like Ringo, but hate the
dirty way they canned Pete. Pay UP PAUL!
wjv4me 6 months ago
Pete's a lovely man, shame he had the emotional fall out to deal with but history's proved - I'm sure even with Petes agreement - that they made the right move, if any cog in the Beatles was out we wouldn't be talking about them now, Ringo had the charisma and spot-on personality to balance the 4 of them
STEPASAUR 7 months ago 2
ringo ended up w/ the beatles in the end as it was meant to be and that's that. pete seems like a nice fellow, and so be it. enough w/ judging the beatles on why they fired best... move on!
dariobeat77 7 months ago
Pete may have missed out on Beatlemania, but in the long run, you know, he's done alright.
tj3688 7 months ago
That was damn mean of them when they decided to kick Pete off the band!!
Geez Pete must've felt TERRIBLE. Expecially when The Beatles then became famous!! It's such a pity!! Poor Pete! :/
miss212AUT 10 months ago
Theres a little bit of pete best in all of us.
TheMichaelseymour 11 months ago 17
@TheMichaelseymour especially his children...
BeeFittyTwooz 6 months ago
I THINK PETE BEST HAS ALOT OF TALENT AND SAD THAT HE DID NOT REMAIN WITH THE BEATLES
sawreb217 11 months ago
No one can state the real motives behind the sacking of Pete, except of course Paul. He's the only living creature who actually KNOWS! So, until he decides to talk truthfully about the whole affair, all we have are every Tom, Dick & Harry's imaginative assumptions.
hmarrero1954 1 year ago
@hmarrero1954 Bingo.
calisongbird 1 month ago
George wasn't quiet; John and Paul were just loud.
TheFpuff 1 year ago
nice bloke, what a life...
retorical62 1 year ago
Lets face it, for all the money and success of the Beatles would you kick out the drummer out of your band ? well I would kick out even 10 drummers for half of that...
kidzsanlorenzo 1 year ago
@kidzsanlorenzo So Ringo Starr made The Beatles then? WHATEVER!
FabFM 1 year ago
The firing of Pete Best had more to do with him not being close with the other Beatles. Even Stu Sutcliffe wasn't a great bass player, yet he was Lennon's buddy and was in the group if he wanted to stay. George Martin wanted to get rid of Ringo too, because his paying was shaky at the time. Ringo did get better and by 1966 had refined his craft. Had the rest of the Beatles not pleaded with George Martin to keep Ringo they might have had a session drummer join the band.
rusty1491 1 year ago
really? martin wanted best out and so did paul then they got ringo because he was the best drummer in liverpool
steamingpoopfart 1 year ago
@steamingpoopfart George Martin apologized to Ringo years later for wanting to replace him too. The rest of the Beatles came to Ringo's defense because they liked him not because of his drumming ability.
rusty1491 1 year ago
@steamingpoopfart Martin did not want best out! Martin wanted a session drummer on records, but wanted Best to stay for live gigs! Starr was not the best drummer in Liverpool, at least according to merseybeat magazine, and was never as popular as Pete Best in Liverpool. In 1963 Best joined Lee Curtis and The All Stars and they were voted second best band in Liverpool to The Beatles simply because Pete Best was their drummer. Ringo never had that kind of fan base!
FabFM 1 year ago
@FabFM
Yes, you're so right, they screwed him out of a career due to jealousy, e.g. his looks and fan base. John was
an insecure and jealous man, I'd bet Paul and George nodded on....don't cause waves. They owe Pete money
and a huge apology. Tragic....PAY UP PAUL! You can afford it.
wjv4me 6 months ago
Awsome!
TheColts99 2 years ago
What a humble man , Great guy! And by the way , the man still rocks on the drums! All the "Best" to you! Keep rocking brother!!!
Best regards,
re-Pete lol.
(yeah, you guessed it )
GeorgeGeorge7 2 years ago 17
@GeorgeGeorge7 John was The Beatle Pete was the closest too...
romans52345 3 months ago