The fired Beatles drummer asks Paul McCartney for one more gig

The Beatles – who was fired from the band in 1962 Pete Best has received publicity and a little support after asking Paul McCartneylta one more gig.

Best presented the matter on social media as part of a belated 82nd birthday celebration. Best turns 83 this year.

In his message, he asks to get in touch if McCartney would like Best to act as a warm-up artist before McCartney’s gig near Liverpool in Manchester.

McCartney will perform in Manchester in December.

“Imagine. That would be something,” Best writes. The word choices suggest John Lennon’s Imagine-song, McCartney’s song That Would Be Something and George Harrisonin to the Beatles classic Something.

Best joined The Beatles after the group got a mortgage in Hamburg in 1960. He played as part of the group Tony Sheridanin My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean -single as well as in an audition for the Decca company, which did not lead to a recording contract.

Best did a little better than his reputation with these recordings. My Bonnie version runs, while in Decca’s recording Best often plays very lightly and unobtrusively, possibly careful not to overshadow the other musicians and vocal parts.

When the band’s style was still being developed and the others still had a lot of room for development, the unevenness of the audition was not only Best’s fault.

In the following months, Best became ill from time to time. Tuuraja was often Ringo Starrwhom the rest of the band liked as a person and as a drummer more than Best.

Best’s playing, especially the first one Love Me Do – in the middle part of the recording left a lot of room for improvement in the EMI company’s “commercial test” on June 6, 1962.

Producer George Martin decided that the drummer cannot be used in the recording itself.

Eventually, Best was fired, to the dismay of many early fans. Ringo Starr became the drummer for The Beatles in August 1962.

Separation was not handled well, and the gaps were completely broken.

Best was depressed and even on the verge of suicide. Subsequent band arrangements produced a few singles, a US tour and a 1965 release Best of the Beatles -albumin.

Commercial the success was limited and Best gave up his career as a musician for decades.

He worked in an employment agency in Liverpool and rose to the position of supervisor. In 1988, he agreed to the first gig in decades together with his younger brother Roag Bestin with and received a good reception.

Since then, Pete Best Band has performed around the world, including in Finland.

In 1995, Best was apparently compensated in the millions for the release of ten Beatles recordings from his period Anthology– collection. He himself told being delighted for the rich presentation of his season.

In 2008 Pete Best Band released their own material Haymans Green -album and got good reviews.

Best has gained some prestigious endorsements from top musicians.

For example, from a solo career and Bruce Sprinsteenin Known for The E Street Band Steven van Zandt has praised the Pete Best Band as being “fantastic” in concert.

Van Zandt warmly supports Best’s initiative for the Manchester gig as McCartney’s warm-up act.

Correction on July 1 at 19:55. Fixed Roag Best’s first name from incorrect Rogue form. At the same time, a mention of Paul McCartney’s song was added That Would Be Something.