Pete Best / Пит Бест

Питу Бесту-65!

Но что ни говори, а Пит вписал свое имя в историю.
Сейчас послушиваю Pete Best Combo "Beyond The Beatles", слабовато, конечно, но потихоньку въезжаю в некоторые песенки. Хотя вокалист он, разумеется, нулевой.

Пит - сила! Отличный парень,такой истинно рок-н-ролльный мэн. В кожанном прикиде был просто неотразим!

...и где тут поиск? Навеhняка тут уже был разговор о Пите Бесте...

Салют! Я слушаю все эти записи с Бестом и врубаю, что это такой РОКЕШНИК, абсолютно пещерный звук. Не очень ровно, но стильно-то как! И никак не вяжется с галстучным прилизанным имиджем. Особенно круто звучит начало Money с прослушивания Decca. Неолит ваще! :-)

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Pete Best: The happiest Beatle of all
07.04.07

<--- Starting out (from left): McCartney, Lennon, Best and Harrison in their early days

When Pete Best was ousted as Beatles drummer by Ringo, he attempted suicide - before finding happiness as a pin-striped civil servant. Now he's back with his own band, his own fans ... and finally getting his hands on some of the Fab Four's cash...
For more than 40 years, the name Pete Best has been synonymous with the notion of the man who so nearly had it all. One day he was the drummer with The Beatles; the next he wasn't. On the very brink of fame, the other three band members ditched him. And he never saw it coming.
And yet as we talked this week, surrounded by drums and recording equipment, and with a photograph of John Lennon staring at us from a wall, there was not one trace of bitterness.
'What's the point in saying, "I should have been this", or "I could have been that?" ' he says simply. 'That's yesterday. Forty years ago. What's important is what's happening today and tomorrow. When you realise that, you get on with it.'
All of which, of course, is true. Understandably, however, it took him a little time to realise it and 'get on with it'. The moment Best's life changed was when, coming off stage at Liverpool's Cavern Club on the night of August 15, 1962, Beatles' manager Brian Epstein asked him to pop into his office the next morning.
The drummer naturally assumed the meeting would be to talk about some business matter. After all, the group was on the cusp of stardom, a fame which was already starting to sweep across Merseyside.
For two years he'd been playing with The Beatles as they'd perfected their early sound in the clubs of Hamburg, where they'd shared bedrooms, girls and squalor, and now he was seeing their fame explode in Liverpool. They were almost there. He and they were living in a cloud of euphoria.
He'd first met John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison three years earlier at the teenage nightclub, the Casbah, a place his mother, Mona, had opened in the basement of the vast Best family home in the West Derby suburb of Liverpool, and where he and I met.
Mona had seen the future in rock music, encouraging local groups to perform there. And although the Cavern would later become world famous as the nursery of what was then called the Mersey Sound, Best argues, with some reason, that the Casbah was its first breeding ground.
Lennon and McCartney not only played there, they decorated the ceilings, too. And when The Beatles needed a new drummer to go with them to Germany, it was Best to whom they turned.
Now, at last, in the summer of 1962 The Beatles had been offered a record deal by EMI. Later that week they would be filmed for television for the first time and, within a month, they would make their first record, Love Me Do. The world was opening its door to them.
But when he arrived for the meeting with Epstein, Best quickly saw that the manager was nervous.
Finally Epstein came to the point. The other Beatles had decided they no longer wanted him in their band. He was being sacked. Ringo Starr was to replace him.
In a moment, all Best's dreams disappeared. He was cast out. In shock, he went home and cried. From that day, not one of the other Beatles ever contacted him again. Nor has he tried to contact them.
'We were cowards,' Lennon would say many years later. 'We got Epstein to do the dirty work for us.'
To be pushed out of any job is painful. But this wasn't any job. Best then had to watch as The Beatles became the biggest show business attraction the world has ever known, while his career with his own new little group went in ever-decreasing circles.
By the mid-Sixties he was so low he tried to commit suicide by gassing himself, only to be saved by his mother and brother, Rory. 'They gave me the most sensible talking-to I've ever had in my life,' he remembers. 'They asked me what the hell I thought I was doing, saying that committing suicide was what people would expect me to do because of what had happened.
'But I had a beautiful wife and daughter to consider. Was I going to leave my daughter without a father?
'When I came to my senses, I wasn't ashamed of what I'd done, but realised only then what it would have done to my family. I vowed I'd never do anything like that again.'
Already the seeds of his life without The Beatles had been sown, not least by his wife, Kathy, whom he'd met at an early Beatles gig in Aintree.
From behind his drums he'd watched her dancing and admired her from afar. They got together at the first Beatles fan club party at the Cavern in 1962. That was, he says, the best day of his life.
'If she hadn't been the type of person I thought she was, she could have walked away from me when I wasn't a Beatle anymore,' he says.
'But she just said: "Pete, it's you I want. Not a Beatle." '

<--- Pete Best: 40 years on from his Beatles day

They married the following summer when She Loves You was topping the charts, and are still happily together nearly 44 years on with five grandchildren from their two daughters.
Shortly after his suicide attempt, Best decided to give up on his stumbling career in music. But although he'd got good O-levels, and had once considered becoming a teacher, he now found he couldn't get a job.
'Employers always thought that, once bitten by show business, I'd be off again when some manager with a big cigar and cheque book turned up. They wouldn't give me a chance.'
So, in 1968 (the year when The Beatles were dallying in the Himalayas with meditation and the Maharishi at the very peak of their fame), their former friend and drummer found himself doing shift work in a bread factory, filling vans with sliced bread.
'It didn't worry me in the least,' he chuckles. 'I wasn't at all ashamed. It was good, wholesome, manual work. I was providing for my family and their security. That was all that mattered.'
A year later, fancying a change, he went to the employment exchange and ended up being given a job in the employment exchange! 'When I got home, I told Kathy I was going to become a civil servant.'
'You'd better buy a suit then, hadn't you?' was her response.
He stayed a civil servant for 20 years, rising steadily through the system, doing a steady nine-to-five job. 'I was very proud of myself. I achieved success in a different way, helping people get jobs and then being in charge of retraining programmes.'
All the time he stayed away from his drums. One day, his daughters said: 'Dad, there's a girl at school who says her mum told her you used to be a Beatle. Is that true?' Intent on living his new life, he'd never told them.
While John Lennon was falling in love with Yoko Ono and climbing in and out of bags as a conceptual artist, Best was playing rugby again for Liverpool Collegiate Old Boys.
He's a quietly spoken, friendly guy; a Liverpool man's man, if you like. While the other Beatles dabbled with pep pills in Germany, he never touched drugs, and never has, still preferring a pint in the pub with his friends and brothers.
Central to his life has been the support of his family, and it's an interesting one. His father came from a wellknown Liverpool clan of boxing promoters and met Best's mother while serving in the Army in India during World War II.
She had been born in India - as was Pete, the eldest of three sons - and when the family returned to Liverpool after the war, she wanted a large house rather than the usual semi.
One day on his way home from school her second son Rory spotted a For Sale sign in large grey detached house in a very smart, leafy road.
'She had to have it,' says Pete. 'But my dad wasn't interested. So, unknown to any of us, she pawned all her jewellery and put it on a horse in the Derby which was being ridden by a young jockey called Lester Piggott. It was a rank outsider called Never Say Die. And it won at 33-1. With the winnings she had enough to put down a deposit and get a mortgage.
'She was a strong, matriarchal woman, full of ambition. She made the Casbah club famous, and even after what had happened to me she never turned her back on The Beatles.
'She'd once shown John Lennon her father's war medals, and in 1967 he got in touch with her, wondering if he could wear them for the photograph on the front of the Sergeant Pepper album. She let him have them.'
By 1988, Best's Beatle past was 25 years behind him when some old pals persuaded him to come out of retirement for a Sixties concert at Liverpool's Adelphi Hotel.
'They'd tried for years to get me back on stage, saying there were thousands of people who came to Liverpool and wondered whatever had happened to Pete Best.
'I'd always found an excuse not to do it. This time, however, I ran out of excuses and put together a little band, with my youngest brother, Roag, playing drums alongside me.'
The show was a huge success. 'And it was nice for Mona to see her eldest and youngest boys playing together on stage for the first time. Tragically she died of a heart attack a couple of weeks later.'
Inevitably he was then tempted back to music. And while Beatles fans had not wanted to know about the evicted drummer while John, Paul, George and Ringo were still playing together, Best was now an international curiosity.
Taking early retirement from the civil service, he picked up his drumsticks again and began to make records and tour with his 'Best Of The Beatles' stage show.
'We do a lot of Sixties stuff, and, of course, Beatle songs. I don't have a problem with that. I didn't buy their first record, Love Me Do, but I got later ones, because, quite honestly, they were so good, so different, so brave. And their songs have stood the test of time.'

Piece by piece, it all began to come right for him again. The Best family had always kept the big home which had housed the Casbah where it all began, and when the club was opened to the public again as a museum in 1999, thousands turned up to take a look.
It's now been listed by English Heritage and groups of tourists can visit by appointment to see John Lennon's ceiling decorations and the old Dansette record player the kids used to dance to.
His biggest surprise, though, must have been the release of The Beatles Anthology in 1995, when early demo recordings made by the group with Best on drums went on sale for the first time.
Suddenly, three decades on, he was eligible for royalties. Exactly how much he received he won't say. But when I ask him if he's rich, he agrees. 'In many ways, but I had a comfortable life before that happened. I always provided and I brought up my family safe and secure.'
Today, the 65-year-old Best is a happy man - with good reason.
Apart from the touring, with part of the house which held the Casbah now turned into a recording studio, he records local Liverpool talent and his own CDs, has a website to which hundreds of fans write, and does a nice sideline in merchandising.
And how does he now feel about The Beatles who hurt him so much so long ago?
'Some people expect me to be bitter and twisted, but I'm not. I feel very fortunate in my life. God knows what strains and stresses The Beatles must have been under. They became a public commodity. And John paid for that with his life.
'I feel lucky to have known another side of John, the softer side, not the sarcastic, sardonic one he put on for the public.
'When I was kicked out of The Beatles, none of us knew what was going to happen. I know we went about saying we were going to be "bigger than Elvis", but I didn't believe it and I don't think the others did either.'
Exactly why Pete Best was pushed out of The Beatles has never been fully explained. At the time, some people thought it was because the others in the group were jealous of his good looks, while others said he was too quiet and a bit moody.
I don't believe either story. In many ways, he was different from the other three and I think he was perceived to lack the ruthless ambition that Lennon would talk about later in life, the drive that got The Beatles to the peak of fame.
Ringo may or may not have been a better technical drummer than Best. It's a matter of opinion. But I suspect the other Beatles - always musical perfectionists - heard something in the way Ringo played that Best wasn't giving them.
Today, of the three Beatles who sacked him, only Paul is still alive. Does he regret the decades of silence between them?
'We're not getting any younger,' he says. 'We know what we've done and we're not going to think any worse of each other if we had a chat now. God bless us, it was all 40 odd years ago.'

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/article-23391868-details/Pete+Best%3A+The+happies...

Вот сын прислал по-русски:
http://www.lenta.ru/news/2007/04/09/fifth/

А мне кажется никакой ссоры у Пита с остальными битлами не было. Обида, да была. Выгнали из группы взашей, что уж тут хорошего...
И зачем он именно СЕЙЧАС(спустя 45 лет) захотел "поговорить" с Полом?Непонятно...
Думаю Пол его примирительный жест попросту проигнорирует, у него и без этого хлопот много.

Best doesn’t mind that fame comes from being former Beatle

http://www.2theadvocate.com/entertainment/8229987.html

WATCH THE VIDEO

http://news10now.com/content/top_stories/default.asp?ArID=111699

На антологии Love Me Do стучит - он? Если все же он, то это круто! Я не говорю, что Ринго - не круто. Ринго - это ритм, а Пит - ритм + техника. На тот момент, на весьма достойном проф уровень. Такой знаете ли уверенный в себе грамотный техничный музыкант. Сразу слышно невооруженным ухом - человек серьезно относится к своему делу... Может даже слишком серьезно? (На фоне гениальной легкости остальных друзей)

Пит Бест проработал с Битлами почти два года. Всё время играл на своих барабанах, пусть даже и не очень... Но, может кто знает, пел ли Пит в составе ранних Битлз? Или же он был самым молчаливым из них?
Если судить по его сольным записям- голос и слух есть!

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-Барабанщики всегда молчат. Когда ты видел в последний раз мило беседующего барабанщика. И скажу тебе больше -их никто не слушает-
Из фильма "Backbeat" реплика самого Пита.

Что за фильм? Скинь ссылку пожалуйста!

Что я могу про него сказать (про Пита):
Если слушать записи на "Декка Сейшн", то он там не в лучшем виде представлен. Till There Was You беспощадно загнал, особенно в середине песни заметно! Sure To Fall отстучал не ровно, да и в других треках играл однообразно. Может нервничал!? Хотя, на записях с Тони Шериданом Пит играл отлично!

Пит -- великий человек. Я не знаю ни одного другого хорошего музыканта , на которого беспричинно лили бы столько помоев. И особенно в нашей стране, Потому как здесь всё лучше всех знают. Потому что всё сами видели , слышали и сами о-нные барабанщики и все играли в Битлз, только их не выгнали коненчо.Впрочем, это всё мышиная возня. я,пожалуй,скажу здесь что-нибудь о Пите -- благо если кому интересно. Агрессоров прошу не беспокоиться.
А пока вот что: с 4 сентября идём в кинотеатры страны -- смотреть THE ROCKER, обозванный в нашем прокате пошлом - ГОЛЫЙ БАРАБАНЩИК. Прототипом героя послужил Пит. Да и на самого полюбуемся - он в эпизодической роли самого себя (роль-камея). Англичане говорят. что по трэйлеру (ролику-анонсу) о фильме лучше не судить. Фильм лучше, чем может показаться. Жаль , что наши сми не отмечают участие Пита Беста в картине.

Осенью выйдет новый диск Пита Беста:

The album/Cd “Haymans Green” is being released in the USA and Canada on the 17th of September, this is the general release date worldwide, but of course you know that. However, the UK release has been held back so that we can do UK television and so forth.

UK release is now the 27th of October, and that´s official.
Germany and Europe is the 24th of October.
Sweden and Scandinavia is 25th of October.

http://beatle.wordpress.com/2008/08/05/pete-best-combo-haymans-green-release-dates/