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.
Finding themselves without a permanent drummer in 1960, the pre-fame Beatles hired local Liverpool skinsman Pete Best -- but his time in the band would be short lived. After recording a demo for ...
Ringo Starr, the drummer of The Beatles, recently released his latest solo album, titled 'Look Up,' which led fans to ...
From there, Starr had already been playing with the band in parts as a session drummer and was gaining an increasing sense for their music, so Harrison approached him to join the ranks full time. It ...
Beatles manager Brian Epstein was infamously eulogized by a rabbi who didn’t know him. Following a private, Orthodox burial, ...
The club was opened in 1959 by original Beatles drummer Pete Best's mother Beatles fans will be able to stay at the club where the Fab Four performed some of their earliest gigs. The Casbah Coffee ...
42.55 x 59.06 cm. (16.8 x 23.3 in.) ...
In February 1961, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Pete Best played their first gig at the Cavern Club as The Beatles. Just two years later, and after a change of drummer ...
Midas Man,” a new biopic about Brian Epstein, a gay man who discovered The Beatles is a watchable and enjoyable portrait.
Ringo Starr (born Richard Starkey) got his start drumming for another Liverpool group -- Rory Storm and the Hurricanes -- before he was asked to step into Pete Best's vacant spot in the Beatles in ...