Original Beatles drummer Pete Best to perform in Columbus
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. His bandmates were jealous of his good looks stealing female fans’ attention.
His quiet, reserved personality didn’t mesh with the more outgoing, playful personalities of John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison. It was strictly a business decision.
Pete Best, original drummer for The Beatles, will present a slideshow and lecture at the Valley Dale Ballroom on Sunday, followed by a performance with his band.
Over the next six decades, the list of reasons snowballed. Subsequent interviews with The Beatles revealed what some saw as animus toward Best, particularly in the case of Lennon.
“The reason he got in the group in the first place was because the only way we could get to Hamburg, (Germany), we had to have a drummer,” Lennon said in an interview posted on Beatles historian David Bedford’s website.
McCartney was a bit kinder, saying that Best was a “really good drummer” who merely “wasn’t quite like the rest of us.”
Source: dispatch.com
