4 - Episode 4 - Drummed Out

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4 - Episode 4 - Drummed Out

Episode 4 - Drummed Out The sacking of Pete Best is a mystery worthy of Agatha Christie and I’ve milked it more than most but I do wonder if there is anything there. Brian Epstein told Pete Best that he wasn’t good enough and maybe there is no more to it than that. Pete says that he was never told the reason why he was sacked: maybe he was but he didn’t believe it. Pete, sadly, sounds at his most mournful when discussing his dismissal but maybe that says a lot. Pete is fond of saying “Somebody turned around and said…” There is a clip near the start of Episode 4 where various people turn round three times in one sentence; you end up wondering who’s facing who. Anyway, this programme looks at the pros and cons of Pete Best in some detail and comments on other possible reasons for the dismissal. For example, was he too good-looking for the Beatles and were the others jealous? It considers Paul McCartney as a bass player and the importance of George Martin as a producer, even in the early years. At the time nothing from the Beatles’ Decca audition had been released officially. I played a minute of ‘Money’ from a bootleg, but that was chancing my arm.

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