Pete Best of the Beatles Remembers 

Why? It's not as if America was anything special. They'd conquered a, much more knowledgeable audience, in the UK and in Europe. The Beatles never needed America. In fact but for America, John would still be alive. It was the American music trade vultures that contributed, hugely, to their breaking up. America's a dirty scabby place to do business.

Will Cambeul where do you think the Beatles got their musical influence from u doofus

I don't know what a doofus is - probably an insult? So, how about I call you a, musically ignorant and uninformed, twat? You really do need to get some schooling. The whole World knows what the US show business vultures are like and, yes the US is a horrible place to do business - just look at it's president. The Beatles, like all young people from the UK's poorer cities, got their influences, in growing up listening to traditional folk songs, church songs and street songs - same as I did, in Glasgow. You need to remember that no American music is original. Rock 'n' roll, blues, r 'n' b, gospel, country & western, mountain music all have their roots and origins in Scottish and Irish folk music and church songs. Add in some French, Spanish, Jewish, etc., to the mix and there you have it. The USA is a young country, formed by immigrants and pioneers, from all over the place. There's nothing original about the US music, art, culture or literature. The language is a, bastardised, form English, for Christ's sake. Suggest that you do a bit of research and learn some history. For what it's worth, I have thousands of LPs, CDs, etc. From Domino to Cohen and everything in between, of US rock, blues, soul, country - you name it. So no big downer against US music.

Will Cambeul America wasn’t anything special huh? 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

@@willcambeul6172 John would still be alive? That can't be proven.

In 1995 the Anthology 1 album contained a number of tracks with Best on drums. He is estimated to have made up to £4 million in royalties, although he did not participate in the book or documentary series. After taxes and everything, probably equal to about a million bucks American. I'm glad to see him get something.

@@Brammy007asource? A drummer that didn’t write isn’t entitled to ANY royalties. Do you believe everything that you read? Some guy in his underwear sitting in his mothers basement wrote that one time.

You're absolutely right, he is a Beetle, not a Beatle.

+xxbotzz LOL ^

Ha. Beetle.

Hahaha me too with jimmy nicole and all the other that were part of the beatles drums

AS OLE' BLUE EYES SANG...THAT'S LIFE.

SO WAS HITLER.

Buzzmoogy Everybody knows who Ted Bundy is too. Being known doesn't equate to success.

@@thagrammarnazi - Ted Bundy? Who's he? Or is it she? Don't assume because she/he's known in the States that she/he's known, anywhere else, in the World.

@@thagrammarnazi You're a shinning example of a complete loser troll.

I remember as a kid seeing photos in magazines of "The Beatles." And I'd wonder--what happened to that great-looking drummer, Pete Best? Could have been a movie star. I believe it must have been very difficult for him. However--I can't dislike Ringo, who is very likeable. I think Ringo had a great drinking problem during his life. Do you think that was maybe because of guilt?? Romans 8:28 - All things work together for good, for those who love the Lord and are called according to His purpose.

Paul was especially jealous

+kevin noneya well I mean he did try and kill himself when the beatles were at the height of their fame. He didn't handle it that well, but I don't think anyone would have done.

how do you know this?

Because it's well documented. See this: "By the mid-Sixties he was so low he tried to commit suicide by gassing himself, only to be saved by his mother and brother, Rory. 'They gave me the most sensible talking-to I've ever had in my life,' he remembers. 'They asked me what the hell I thought I was doing, saying that committing suicide was what people would expect me to do because of what had happened."

Jean D. Do you blame him??

Jean D He's not a whiner at all you fool. What are you talking about?

😀😀😀😀.......anyway, He is famous !

Not the Kardashians?

Then why didn’t Pete play like that when he was with the Beatles? He was an awful drummer. And ringo was a fantastic drummer. A “contemporary drummer of his” yeah right lol what an appeal to authority

@@ExcitedAnacondaSnake-hg8ec Wow, your ignorance on music is astounding. The Beatles were the worst band in Liverpool the day before they hired Pete Best. They hired Pete and went straight off to Germany. The band struggled for the first few nights as they could not be heard over the raucous German crowds. So Pete got creative and invented, "The Atom Beat", which revolutionized rock drumming, causing every drummer in the Hamburg-Liverpool circuit, including Ringo, to try to copy it. Suddenly, The Beatles gelled like they never had before, and within weeks they were the hottest ticket in both Hamburg and Liverpool. Writing home from Hamburg to an old school friend in Liverpool, George Harrison wrote, *"Mona Best's lad, Pete, is drumming good for us."* George also said years later, *"Before we went to Germany we were awful. But we got so good there they kept inviting us back. When we first got home to Liverpool people were amazed at how much we'd changed, we were as tight as a band can be. Then later when we got signed to a recording contract, we deteriorated as a live band, and never reached that level again."* John Lennon said the same thing about the Pete Best era: *"The Beatles were at our best as a live group when we were in our leathers playing straight rock n' roll in the clubs and halls of Hamburg and Liverpool. No one in England could touch us. But it wasn't recorded so the world never got to hear it. And then once we got signed we fell apart as a live band."* Now if you know anything about music, which you obviously do not, then you'd know that a band cannot be great with a drummer who's, "awful". It's simply not possible. A poor drummer drags the whole band down. And it doesn't take TWO YEARS to find out a drummer is bad, it takes two weeks, at the most. Yet Pete lasted two years, all the way up to the band getting a recording deal. In Pete's first year as The Beatles drummer, they knocked Ringo's band, Rory Storm & The Hurricanes, out of the top spot in the 1961 Mersey Beat Top Band Poll. And speaking of Ringo, he recognized how great they'd become just weeks into Pete's tenure on drums: *"My band, Rory Storm & The Hurricanes, got to Hamburg about 2 months after The Beatles had arrived there. We played on the same bill a lot so I was always running into them. I'll never forget the first time I heard The Beatles, they were already great. They were the only band I would go see on my time off."* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

@@Cosmo-Kramer a band is only as good as its drummer, is true and I agree, am familiar with it. You make an awful lot of assumptions based on a few sentences and go onto character assassinate, de facto insult, instead of sticking to substance. Yes, you are holier than thou and have every right to judge me and correct my flaws… John also made comments about Pete best how he never improved as a drummer, how he wasn’t keeping up with the other members growth as musicians, and could barely keep a beat, in his words “he was a lousy drummer and never improved”. What sounds like what happened is the Beatles started out as a lousy bar band, improved by performing ten hours a day for a few years, and when they notice one member namely Pete wasn’t improving like they were, they fired him and got a drummer that was already at the level of musicianship they achieved working desperately with Pete. Pete was a dead weight in a sense. Now that I think of it the Beatles remind me a lot of Nirvana. Nirvana like the Beatles start out like anyone. Horrible. But they improved, Kurt particularly and to be honest Kurt taught bass parts to krist and kind of schooled him how he wanted him to sound, regardless as a unit Nirvana was improving. The songs were improving. They ended up playing with a drummer named Chad for a year or two. He was a mediocre drummer and wasn’t keeping up with Kurt’s progression. So they fired Chad, got Dave Grohl the powerhouse drummer, by that time they were ready for a drummer like Grohl if it was Nirvana from 87” it wouldn’t have worked like it did by 90”. They rehearsed with Grohl for about 6 months and became what they were, at their peak. Beatles were that way. John Paul and George were improving and got to a high level of chemistry and performance, Pete kept the beat for them more or less (according to John he couldn’t even do that too well) and when they did jump to a higher level of excellence they got a drummer that could keep up with them, which would be ringo Starr. George Martin also remarked how poor of a drummer Pete best was. I’ve also personally heard recordings with Pete on drums. He wasn’t a good drummer. As far as the Beatles being this amazing club band, in their own minds maybe and I’m sure they did have a quality. Like you remarked, they couldn’t have been that good with a dead weight like Pete.

mountaingoat1003 he doesn’t have money? Are you high?

And celeb net worth is a reliable source of info when it comes to a guy's personal finances? Pete is always appearing on shows, he tours with his band and he's been cashing in on the Anthology for years. easy a millionaire

Plus he is alive.

Because ten tracks he played on were reissued on Anthology 1 Pete Best received a six figure payday. He also did a funny Carlsburg Lager Commercial which aired during the original run of the Beatles Anthology on ABC. Not bad!

He earned about £1.5 million from the anthology so he's doing very well.

Yeah right. You obviously haven't watched enough Pete Best. He had very bad feelings towards them.

+Peter Jackson My thoughts exactly! That's character! Him & Sutcliff were the ones with integrity & class. Real men! True Stars!

Peter Jackson You are exactly correct

I thing you are the one who is wrong man. Ringo was a loser, no merits at all. Wake up man.

Solomongrundy68 history has proved you wrong there, no Ringo = no Beatles. With Pete they would have faded away like the rest.

listen to The Beatles - Decca Audition, January 1 1962 on RU-vid

Rob Taylor Music Vlogs, I have been a Beatle fan since I discovered music and I have NEVER heard anyone endorse your, 'Ringo is shit' theory. Musically, he was the least talented Beatle, but that is not a put-down to Ringo, rather a tremendous compliment to John, Paul, and George. Ringo was the perfect drummer for that group and his contributions to the Beatles were vast, well beyond the music. That stated, the Beatles became a hit band with Pete! He was a good drummer by Liverpool standards and helped the Beatles hit several career milestones. Pete wasn't Ringo, but deserves his place in Beatle history.

You've missed out that Ringo was talked about, as the best drummer in Liverpool, at the time. He'd been playing for a couple of years with Rory Storm and The Hurricanes - Liverpool's top group. You probably weren't around, at the time, so wouldn't know all of the facts. I'd say that, just as big achievements, were his performances in A Hard Day's Night and HELP and his excellent interaction with the great comedy actors who were in the films - especially Wilfred Bramble.

+odeon64 What a weird thing to say. Goon.

+lennonroey Oh put your toys back in your pram. Weird, not at all. True, absolutely. Incidentally If the "Goon" was meant as an insult, that's rich coming from a Twat! Still angry with Yoko are we? Your username pretty much sums you up, so it's wrong of me to mock a cretin.

+odeon64 Yes it was a very weird comment. You wouldn't realise that though, being the weird one. Angry with Yoko? Goon remains.

+odeon64 Try me.

I bet you say that to all the boys? No thanks, I've better things to do.

Epstein hated him because he hated gays.

Sammie Blane No, he is a bitter old man. Yes, the way he was kicked out wasn't particularly nice, but being bitter about that for next 50 years truly shows what kind of personality he is. You go through hard times, people hurt you, but if you are a grown up man, you go on with your life and you forgive. He had a choice - either he could grow into a grateful person, who is happy to have been a part of history, or he could have grown into exactly what he is. A bitter old man who never moved on and who is an embarassment. He made his choice. Apart from that, you forgeting that Beatles were about music in the first place. Ringo was a much better drummer, he could do really advanced stuff with his drumming and he was extremely creative. Not even in the same league with Ringo. Even today it's hard to find a drummer who could do things like Ringo did on Rain or Happiness is a warm gun. No way Pete Best could do what Ringo did. He would be an obstacle on the Beatles musical journey. And by the way - the Beatles didn't need Pete Best for their success, did they?

But mate, Ringo wasn't even the best drummer in the beatles, as said John Lennon

Hal9000ize John didn't say that. That was a line by comedian Jasper Carrott and it became an urban legend that Lennon said that.

Sammie Blane Sammie Blane, what did you write? You're an idiot.

John did go to art school, but got his girlfriend Cynthia to do most of his work, as he concentrated more on band before dropping out of college.

That's nice. I met his daughter and grandchildren and went to their house, they are really nice people.

+ExtremeTalker2000 So lucky!