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Editorial Review:
Before there was Ringo, there was Pete. Drummer with the Beatles from 1960 to 1962, Best played with the band in Liverpool and Hamburg, then was unceremoniously dropped on the eve of fame and fortune. In Beatle! he relates previously unknown anecdotes that form a fascinating look at the least-documented period of Beatles history.
Beatle!: The Pete Best Story Reviews:
Well Done, Pete 
2008-11-18 - I had the pleasure of seeing Pete Best in concert on 26 September 2008 in Lincoln, Nebraska. He and his band put on an amazing show and he was very friendly and gracious as he signed autographs chatted with us later. A week later I ordered this book because I wanted to know his side of the story. I was not disappointed. He certainly got a rotten deal, but he has remained remarkably sane throughout the years (I think his long marriage to Kathy has had something to do with it). He has achieved the recognition and success he deserves. He's 67 now and he looks like a 60-something-year-old man but you can tell he's taken care of himself over the years. Yes, he whined a bit after he was kicked out of the Beatles but he moved on with his life and he's done very well. Thank you, Pete, for this book. I'm definitely a Pete Best fan!
Essential Reading
2008-09-28 - Call me crazy, but this is one of the most important rock biographies - perhaps THE most important - ever written. All I can say is, 'totally cool!' I couldn't put it down.
SIMPLY BEST
2005-11-21 - In a sense Pete Best was a winner of another kind.
He made a succesful marriage for one thing and after 1995 a lot of money.
His recording career in the States came to nothing and yet the songs were typical Merseybeat,mostly written by Waddington and Bickerton who would achieve success in the 70s with a string of hits by the Rubettes.
Also overlooked is the fact that he was the only one of the 1962 Beatles who got a Decca recording contract
A brutally honest account by the REAL fifth beatle
2005-09-07 - Wow. I read this book and enjoyed it immensely. It is the most honest account I have read in years.
Pete Best was with the Beatles during the early sixties, when they had yet to hit the big time. They spent several months in Hamburg, just learning their trade. He was with them through the Cavern Club years and the Decca audition. But just when things started to go right for the band, he was sacked.
Why?
We don't know. Pete says that he still doesn't know after all these years.
You may expect the book to be bitter about the Beatles success - but it isn't. You may expect him to bad mouth the band throughout - but he doesn't. He paints them in a remarkably nice light, that comes across as both honest and believable.
He recounts tales about drugs, drink and girls - and describes the personalities of the big bands they met - Tony Sheridan and Gerry and the Pacemakers for example.
And he also gallently talks about the day he was sacked, and the reasons why he thinks they did it.
The prologue at the end that describes his subsequent career shows that we shouldn't be sorry for him at all... What we wouldn't give to be at the heart of that!
Beatle The Pete Best Story
2003-08-11 - Highly recomending this book for any Beatles Fans.
Anyone who is interested in the early Beatles History
this is a must read....
I finished reading this book in just under two days.
And like another reviewer I also found myself unable to put it down! It just drawns you in.
I came away with a different prospective on Pete,
really not knowing much about him or his life except that he was the original drummer for the Beatles.
I actually bought this book to be autogrpahed as I was going to see him the following week and lucky the book arrived in time..
A must have!!!!!
