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Pete Best, The Beatles’ Bummer Drummer

Pete Best survived what may be a drummer’s worst nightmare (second only to perhaps Def Leppard’s Rick Allen losing his arm). As those even untouched by Beatlemania may know, Best was rock legend The Beatles? original percussionist who was replaced in 1962, some insist mysteriously, by Ringo Starr just before the Beatles broke big. Nearly…