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.

After a few years as a (mostly) covers band, The Beatles were hardly poised to break out of their working-class town in ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

42.55 x 59.06 cm. (16.8 x 23.3 in.) ...

With Bruce Springsteen and the Beatles next up for biopics following Timothée Chalamet's successful turn as Bob Dylan, we ...

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 ...

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 ...