This is a tribute to probably the most famous loser of RnR. It was 50 (!) years ago today (Aug. 16, 1962) when Pete Best was fired from the Beatles. A loser not only because he missed world-wide-fame but also as he incredibly would follow the road of wrong decisions: Why did he insist to record mostly the same cuts his substitute (Ringo) had sung and drummed much better? Why did he pick band-members with poorest skills of performing and writing? (they mustn’t have been out of his closest friends neither, since none of them ever would show up in Pete’s later “career”?). Why did he sign (after a sole 45 on Decca) with budget record-companies to be exploited in the most ridiculous ways (publishing his LP as “Best of the Beatles”?) Why did he continuously change band-name (PB Four, PB Combo) instead of sticking to one, maybe more “independent” moniker? Anyway, this multiple-loser, with all the times he was asked to tell his sad story over and over again, has all my sympathies. Listening to this selection (I know Cherry Red has issued a “complete Pete”-CD, but not many people would by it) (wonder why?), it comes clear why Sir George Martin (and the chaps, too) took that fatal decision. Pete just can’t keep the beat, most of the time he slows it down after the first lines, sometimes he’ll speed it up, and on some tracks (his version of RnR-Music) you might even think he momentarily left his drum-stool. And when the producer decided to pep sounds up adding cow-bell or a tambourine things get worse since you simply can’t hear his drumming! Still, I hope you’ll enjoy the soundtrack (and the pictures!) of a man who touched fortune and fame with his fingertips and probably did what he could not to vanish in oblivion – in one way or the other eventually succeeding!
Tracklist:
(Silver Beatles):
1 - Money
2 - Searchin‘
(Beatles):
3 - Cry For A Shadow
(Lee Curtis & All Stars) :
4 - Skinnie Minnie
5 - Let‘s Stomp
(Pete Best Four):
6 - I'll Try Anyway
7 - Don't Play with Me
(Pete Best Combo):
8 – I'll Have Everything Too
13 – All Aboard
14 - Castin' my Spell
15 - Keys to my heart
16 - Shimmy like my sister Kate
17 - If You Can't Get Her
18 - I Don't Know Why I Do (I Just Do)
19 - More Than I Need Myself
20 - She's Not The Only Girl In Town
21 - Kansas City
22 – Boys
23 – LastNight
(Pete Best):
24 – Wait and See
25 - The Way I Feel About You
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