Pete Best, the 'Other Beatle' to perform at the United Friday
If you had told me when I was a young teenager — swooning over a certain mop-topped quartet from Liverpool, like most girls my age at the time — that I would one day talk to Pete Best, the drummer often called "the fifth Beatle," I would have giggled in disbelief.
Even though my allegiance was clearly to John, Paul, George and Ringo, I had heard of the drummer who played with the Silver Beatles before Ringo joined the band.
Yet, there I was one afternoon last week, a teenager no more, on the phone with Best, laughing away at his stories and talking easily to the man who played drums before Ringo took the number four spot as he spoke about "The Best of the Beatles," his upcoming show at the United.
That's because Best — who turned 83 last November — was charming, entertaining, funny and easy to talk to.
"It will be my first time in Rhode Island," said Best, who formed the Pete Best Band in the late 1980s and has been touring ever since, bringing the "sound of the Beatles in their formative years" to audiences worldwide.
"It's a powerhouse of a show," he told me with enthusiasm. "There's lots of energy."
Source: thewesterlysun.com/Nancy Burns-Fusaro
