Autographs of Pete Best
Randolph Peter Best (né Scanland; born 24 November 1941) is an English retired musician who was the drummer for the Beatles from 1960 to 1962. He was dismissed shortly before the band achieved worldwide fame and is one of several people referred to as a fifth Beatle.
Best's mother, Mona Best (1924–1988), opened the Casbah Coffee Club in the cellar of the Bests' house in Liverpool. The Beatles (at the time known as the Quarrymen) played some of their first concerts at the club. The Beatles invited Best to join the band on 12 August 1960, on the eve of the group's first Hamburg season of club dates. Ringo Starr eventually replaced Best on 16 August 1962 when the group's manager, Brian Epstein, fired Best at the request of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison following the band's first recording session. Over 30 years later, Best received a significant monetary payout for his work with the Beatles after the release of their 1995 compilation of their early recordings on Anthology 1; Best played the drums on 10 of the album's tracks, including the Decca auditions.
After being a member of several commercially unsuccessful groups, Best left the music industry to pursue a career as a civil servant for 20 years before forming the Pete Best Band.
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The most expensive item with a signature of Pete Best (The Beatles And Pete Best Autographed 1962 Promotional Photograph (UK)) was sold in February 2026 for £9,784.50 while the cheapest item (Pete Best,( The Beatles, ) Signed Photo,) found a new owner for £0.99 in October 2018. The month with the most items sold (30) was December 2025 with an average selling price of £43.89 for an autographed item of Pete Best. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in March 2019 with £144.00 and the month that saw the lowest prices with £1.20 was December 2014. In average, an autographed item from Pete Best is worth £24.99.
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