Pete Best, the original Beatles drummer before Ringo Starr, announced his retirement on April 6. He performed with the ...

Pete Best is the forgotten member of The Beatles who famously squandered music's greatest opportunity. But did he get paid at least?

After leaving The Beatles, Pete, now 83, continued to perform in The Pete Best Band and make convention appearances. However, he is now hanging up his drumsticks and confirmed: ‘I had a blast.

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 eye ...

“Well what an absolutely wonderful ride we’ve had. However, everything comes to pass,” an X post from Best’s brother reads. “My brother Pete Best has announced today he is retiring from personal ...

The long and winding road of Pete Best, the original drummer for The Beatles, has come to an end. Best, 83, who played for the band from 1960 to 1962 until he was replaced by Ringo Starr ...

Pete Best is putting his drumsticks down for good ... However, right before the band — which included John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison — catapulted into stardom, he was replaced ...

We offer a nod to his career with this review from the past summer… To say the Pete Best Band exceeded expectations is to say the Beatles wrote some decent songs. Landing July 28 at Columbus ...

DJ Mario Vine appeared on stage at 3:30 kicking off proceedings by joking and playing snippets of songs relating to the bands on board. For example, for cruise star Pete Best Vine cued a quadruple ...

but Pete did repost his brother and write, “I had a blast. Thank you.” Billboard reported that Best’s connection to the Beatles began in the late 1950s when the band, then known as the ...

In the Nineties, the Beatles dropped a compilation album, Anthology 1, which included some of Best’s drumming. Since then, he’s had his own band called the Pete Best Band, releasing the album ...