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Randolph Peter Best
or
Pete Best
(born
Randolph Peter Scanland
; 24 November 1941) was
The Beatles
's original drummer. He was born on 24 November 1941 in
Madras
,
India
to an Indian mother and an
English
father. His mother, Mona, later owned the Casbah Club in
Liverpool
, where The Beatles would sometimes perform. Best was drummer for the group from 1960 until 16 August 1962, when the band and their new manager,
Brian Epstein
, fired him and replaced him with
Ringo Starr
. The reason was because when the band auditioned for
EMI
,
record producer
George Martin
was not satisfied with Best's drum skills, and planned to replace him on their recordings.
Best was devastated, and tried to form other bands with little success. He attempted suicide in 1965. He went on to work as a
civil servant
. In 1995, when The Beatles released their
Anthology
albums, which featured Best on some recordings, he received a large sum of money from the sales. He also found a new career, appearing at Beatles-related events such as
conventions
, where he sometimes played drums, with more skill than he showed in earlier days.
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