Pete Best helps celebrate The Beatles golden jubilee

Pete Best was on the drums for a special gig to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first time the band newly renamed "The Beatles" played their first performance. It was on 17th December 1960, that a crowd gathered at The Casbah Coffee Club in Liverpool to hear what they thought was a German band: direct from Hamburg, called The Beatles. The line-up was John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison - who had last played there as The Quarrymen - along with Pete Best and Chas Newby from The Black jacks. [click here to read more]