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Pete Best


 

Randolph Peter Best (born November 24, 1941 in Madras, India) was the original drummer for The Beatles. The son of Mona Best, 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 19601961 residency in Hamburg. He stayed until shortly after their first audition for EMI in 1962, but was fired on August 16 of that year, to be eventually replaced by Ringo Starr, then of Rory Storm and the Hurricanes.

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