Mona Best gave the Fab Four their break, her son was the drummer they fired and she had a love ...

Everyone knows the story of the Beatles, the four mopheads from Liverpool who were talent-spotted at the Cavern Club and catapulted to global fame by manager Brian Epstein.

But not everyone knows that long before they ever met Epstein, the Beatles already had a formidable force in their life in the form of housewife Mona Best, mother of the band's original drummer Pete Best, the man often described as 'the fifth Beatle'.

It was Mona who gave the band their first bookings in the tiny club she set up in the basement of her home in Liverpool, and Mona who became their first, unpaid manager.

Source: Daily Mail

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