Pete Best

Randolph Peter Pete Best is an English musician, principally known as the original drummer for the Beatles from 1960 to 1962.

Best was born in the city of Madras, then part of British India. After Bests mother, Mona Best , moved to Liverpool in 1945, she opened the Casbah Coffee Club in the cellar of the Bests house in Liverpool. The Beatles played some of their first concerts at the club.

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