Pete Best: “The Beatles Were Nothing Without Me”

Former Beatles drummer Pete Best is claiming that The Beatles were nothing without him. Best was the Beatles drummer from 1960 to 1962. He was dismissed immediately prior to the band achieving worldwide fame and was replaced by Ringo Starr. In a new interview, Best states that he was fired from The Beatles because they were jealous of him and that he taught the band everything they knew.

Best explained, “Sure The Beatles went on to huge fame and fortune, but they were still jealous of me. I was good looking, I was an awesome musician, the girls loved me and I have an armadillo in my trousers. They tried to say I was fired because I was a bad drummer, but we all know the truth, they were threatened by my awesomeness.”

Pete Best Vs The Beatles

“In Hamburg, I was pulling all the hot birds. I was banging 3 a night and those guys couldn’t get laid in a brothel with a fistful of money. I tried to give them some of my leftovers but the birds wanted no part of it. Finally one night George got lucky. It was with a 60 year old buxom big legged German woman with a mole on her face. He got even more jealous when he saw the caliber of women I was getting.”

Pete Best: “The Beatles Were Nothing Without Me”

“It was my idea to wear tight pants, suits and grow our hair into those mop tops. I came up with the name The Beatles and I taught Paul how to play the bass. When I first met him he was holding the bass upside down and strumming it. I had to explain to him that you pluck it, you do not strum it like a guitar.”

“The Beatles had a nice little career and they had a few good songs, but we were still a better band when I was the drummer. Ringo couldn’t hold a beat if it had a handle on it. It was my idea to write our own songs. I wrote all the early hits and I taught them everything they know about songwriting. In 1962 I was telling them we should add Sitar and have concept albums. I was way ahead of my time and I knew fashion was going to be tightly integrated with the music.”