McCartney Times

Spare a thought for Pete Best, who, while his former bandmates were splashed across every newspaper stand, television set, and silver screen across the world, had to be content with loading bread delivery vans back in Liverpool.According to Ringo Starr, however, the unceremonious sacking of The Beatles’ original drummer was always an inevitability.Before The Ed Sullivan Show, before Beatlemania, and before Please Please Me, it was in the gloomy surroundings of Hamburg that The Beatles honed their craft. During those early days, playing for local gangsters and weathered sailors, the Fab Four were virtually unrecognisable from the cultural icons they soon became. Namely, there were more than four of them. In addition to John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison, there was Stuart Sutcliffe on bass and Pete Best on drums – the far-too-often forgotten Beatles.

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