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The Beatles — or as they were known at the time, The Silver Beatles — invitedPete Bestto join the band on August 12, 1960, shortly before their first club dates in Hamburg, Germany. Two years later, Best was dismissed by Brian Epstein, the group’s manager, and replaced byRingo Starr...
Born in Liverpool, as were Harrison and Starr, the acerbic Lennon and the cheerier McCartney met at a church picnic in 1957. The two were magically complementary, and Harrison, original drummer Pete Best and then Starr all eventually came into the fold. Starting with their first recording for...
in the mid-1950s.McCartney and then Harrison joined the group in the late 1950s.In its early years,the band also had several other members.In 1962,they signed a recording contract(合同)with a large music company.At about this time,they chose Starr to replace(替代)drummer Pete Best. ...
Drummer Pete Best left the group and a sad-eyed drummer named Richard Starkey, better known as Ringo Starr, joined. Despite initial doubts, George Martin agreed to use Lennon and McCartney originals on both sides of the Beatles' first single. "Love Me Do," released on October 5, 1962, ...
At that time they had accepted their first Hamburg booking, which was to commence on 13 August. However, they were without a drummer as Tommy Moore had left them. One afternoon Paul phoned Pete at home and asked: "How'd you like to come to Hamburg with the Beatles?" ...
There is no room named forRingo Starr, who replaced Pete as drummer in 1962, but the Best brothers say this omission didn’t stem from any ill will toward the drummer. “It’s nothing to do with Pete and Ringo and what happened,” Roag tells PA Media. “Everyt...
on Grosse Freiheit. This turned out to be a significant step, as this is where the young musicians met their legendary drummer Ringo Starr, who had made a name for himself there with a band called Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. He was soon to replace their first drummer, Pete Best. ...
unseen home movie footage provided by Lennon’s son Sean and Olivia Harrison, George’s wife, and “a few precious seconds of The Beatles performing in their leather suits, the earliest known film of The Beatles and never seen before,” provided by Pete Best, t...
they chose Starr to replace(替代) drummer Pete Best.At first, the Beatles' songs were lively and simple. The first song was Love Me Do in 1962. Their first hit came the following year, when Please Please Me climbed to the top of the Britishmusic charts(排行榜).The Beatles became very...