"My brother Pete Best has announced today he is retiring ... he was replaced by Ringo Starr when Parlophone Records executive George Martin wanted to sign the band without Best.

Ringo Starr was born to play the drums in many respects, and it only took that one second to realise that he truly belonged ...

McCartney recalled the first time Starr joined them onstage. He wasn’t a permanent member of the band yet. “One night, our drummer then, Pete Best, wasn’t available, so Ringo sat in ...

John Lennon had a real dominion over The Beatles, but he knew that nothing fully congealed into the true Fab Four were ...

‘Pete, I’ve got bad news for you.’ He said in a nutshell, the boys want you out and they want Ringo Starr in. I was completely shell-shocked by this, Dave,” Best continued. “I couldn’t ...

My brother Pete Best has announced today he is retiring ... from the band at the members’ request and replaced him with Ringo Starr after the group’s first recording session.

Ringo Starr was the drummer for The Beatles and ... Ringo was not the first drummer for the legendary band, Pete Best was in the original lineup when the Beatles were known as the Quarrymen.

A band as culturally influential as The Beatles was bound to attract its share of wild theories, urban legends, and even bizarre-but-true stories. Formed in Liverpool in 1960 and made up of John ...

Pete Best, was sacked in 1962, a month before the Beatles became the biggest phenomenon in the world. Ever since, there have been rumours that Ringo Starr replaced Pete because of concerns that ...