By Caroline Gammell

The ‘fifth Beatle’ Pete Best is to release his first solo album – more than 40 years after he was famously kicked out of the band.

Pete Best, now 66, was replaced in 1962 by Ringo Starr, provoking a storm of protest from Beatles fans
Haymans Green is a collection of songs about his life as the original drummer in the Fab Four before they reached worldwide acclaim.
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Pete Best, the original drummer for The Beatles, will release a new CD entitled Haymans Green on September 16.

The auto-biographical album is Pete Best’s thoughts and feelings as he takes us from the time he was a Beatle, which included the famous Hamburg, Germany tour dates, BBC, Polydor, Decca, and EMI recordings, before mysteriously getting fired, to the anguish of losing the gig and then finding his own way, as the famous band went on to superstardom.
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Pete Best yesterday gave his verdict on the Capital of Culture launch led by Ringo Starr, and the 2008 return to the city of his former band mate Sir Paul McCartney, as he took a magical mystery tour around some of the Fab Four’s famous haunts.
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The upcoming movie “The Rocker,” a variation on the Pete Best story, includes Pete in a cameo role.
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