Why Does Pete Best Still Not Know Why He Was Fired From The Beatles?
“Why does Pete Best still not know why he was fired from The Beatles?” Good question. (OK, it’s a bit “old school” before there was any school but again it beats answering those questions odd intimate inquiries. Seriously? We thought “The Walrus” was Paul. If you don’t get that reference then you need to look into a “Glass Onion”, mmmkay?)
Former Beatles drummer Pete best still does not know why he was fired? Really?
It was August, 1960. A Brit band called The Silver Beatles recruited Pete Best as drummer. Guest speaker Mark Frauenfelder, contributor to BoingBoing, confirms this and adds: “Best was already in a band called the Black Jacks, but he took the gig and for the next two years he played with the band (which eventually dropped “Silver” from its name).”
In the summer of 1962 the band attended their first Parlophone recording session at EMI studios, (now Abbey Road Studios). They recorded four songs including the first recording of “Love Me Do.” Numerous sources note producer George Martin—not present during the actual recordings—later decided to use another drummer in the studio.
When the other three Beatles—John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison learned that Martin and the studio engineers thought Best should be replaced with a session drummer for the next recording session, they discussed firing Best.
They told Epstein to let Best go.
By: Will Phoenix
Source: American Live Wire
