Pete takes a year off
Pete Best and the rest of the Beatles at the Iron Door, Liverpool, 1961. Colourised. Roag Best, Pete Best’s brother announced earlier today that Pete is taking the year off from rock’n’roll and the...
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The Casbah Story – by Pete Best
Tune in to Pete Best’s account of the Casbah Club story Over at BBC radio, a two-part series of the story of Liverpool’s Casbah Club narrated by ex-Beatle Pete Best is still available for...
Unofficial “Pepper” documentary
A Sgt Pepper film is in the making, though not an official one There is an upcoming “Sgt Pepper”-film in post-production at the moment, but it’s unofficial and cover band The Bootleg Beatles* are...
Pete Best’s revenge
An American release of the Polydor recordings. When Klaus Voorman made the collage that became the front covers of the Beatles’ Anthology album series and related releases, the front cover of Anthology Vol 1...
New Beatles vs EMI theory
“Mersey Beat” 31 May, 1962. On the front page of “Mersey Beat” in June 1962, there was an article about the Beatles’ Parlophone release – due out in July. At the EMI A&R meeting...
Happy New Beatles Year!
It was 50 years today that The Beatles auditioned for Decca Records. Ever since the mid-seventies, the Decca audition tape has been floating around among Beatles fans, but always from the same source tape....
Pete Best Drive
Liverpool has a new road! Two in fact, as the Casbah Coffe Club also has been honoured with a road of it’s own: Casbah Close. More in The Liverpool Daily Post The other four...
The Beatles’ first UK Concert – 50 years
It was fifty years ago. The Beatles performed their first concert in the United Kingdom on the 17th of December 1960. The concert was in Liverpool at the Casbah Coffee Club. The Beatles returned...
Beatles 50th Anniversary Celebrations
The Beatles at the Indra Club in Hamburg, some time in August, 1960. At the time, they were five: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Stuart Sutcliffe and Pete Best. This photo has been...
Pete Best in The Beatles’ footsteps
On the 25th of October 1963, John, Paul, George and Ringo were in Sweden. Karlstad, to be precise and they stayed at the hotel “Stadshotellet”, and played at the venue Sunsta Läroverk. It took...
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