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Pete Best Special Guest Performances

Pete Best was The Beatles drummer between 1960 and
1962, playing more than 1,000 live performances in-
cluding nightclubs and dance halls in both Liverpool
and Hamburg. He recorded 27 songs as a Beatle, and he
also played in The Beatles very first show in Liverpool at
the Casbah Coffee Club which was owned by his mother
Mona.

Pete was portrayed on screen by Scot Williams in Back-
beat and Ryan Michael in Birth Of The Beatles but
played himself in a 2008 film called The Rocker, starring
Emma Stone, Bradley Cooper and Christina Applegate.

He will play himself in three performances:
April 25 (2.30pm/7.30pm) and one on May 5 (7.30pm)

The Beatles ~ Paul, Pete, George & John in 1962
Paul & John at the ‘Kasbah Club’
owned by Pete’s mumMona.

(above) Pete & John at the Cavern Club
(right) Pete at the Cavern Club
Photographs: Courtesy of Roag Best.
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