Ringo Starr, the drummer of The Beatles, recently released his latest solo album, titled 'Look Up,' which led fans to reminisce about his past tours and the strange item he would always take with him ...

More than 60 years after Pete Best was ejected from The Beatles and replaced by Ringo Starr, reasons for the ouster continue to be a matter of conjecture. He wasn’t a good enough drummer.

Finding themselves without a permanent drummer in 1960, the pre-fame Beatles hired local Liverpool skinsman Pete Best -- but his time in the band would be short lived. After recording a demo for ...

The Beatles' time in Hamburg was plagued by problems, but it helped them improve musically which led to their discovery.

From there, Starr had already been playing with the band in parts as a session drummer and was gaining an increasing sense for their music, so Harrison approached him to join the ranks full time. It ...

But Martin — who would go on to become the famed Beatles producer — had one deal-breaker: Epstein had to get rid of original drummer Pete Best. “The Beatles are young guys, and they did not ...

Beatles fans will be able to sleep ... was opened in 1959 by Mona Best – mother of the band’s original drummer Pete – in the basement of her family home and saw 13 performances by John ...

In February 1961, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Pete Best played their first gig at the Cavern Club as The Beatles. Just two years later, and after a change of drummer ...

One user asked: "Is this for real?" Another suggested the pineapple had been named after The Beatles' former drummer. They wrote: "Like Pete Best..?" Other fans have since found the practice of ...

Ringo Starr (born Richard Starkey) got his start drumming for another Liverpool group -- Rory Storm and the Hurricanes -- before he was asked to step into Pete Best's vacant spot in the Beatles in ...