The Beatles' 1st Drummer Pete Best Earned '7-Figure Royalties' From This Recording

One of modern music history’s best-known accounts of what could have been, Pete Best was The Beatles‘ first drummer.

Best was dropped from the band by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison on the cusp of their spectacular fame in 1962. Once they hit it big, he remained firmly in their rear-view mirror, never sharing in or receiving any of the fortune The Beatles amassed from their music or merchandising.

That changed at the release of a recording by the band, when Best was awarded royalties many believe he had coming for years.
Lennon’s take on why Best was fired

Lennon, the band’s rhythm guitarist and founder, wasn’t one to mince words regardless of occasion or possible offense.

According to Starr biographer Michael Seth Starr (no relation) in Ringo Starr: With a Little Help, Lennon firmly made clear why Best was let go — and it had nothing to do with his looks.

Source: cheatsheet.com

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