High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pete Best (born 24 November 1941) is a British musician, best known as the original drummer in The Beatles 1960-62 before Ringo Starr joined the group.After moving from India to Liverpool in 1945, Best's mother, Mona Best (1924 1988) started The Casbah Coffee Club in the cellar of the Bests' house in Liverpool, which became very popular the membership list grew to over a thousand and where The Beatles (then known as The Quarrymen) played some of their first concerts. The club was also known as The Casbah Club, or simply The Casbah. Best played there with his first band, The Black Jacks, and later with The Beatles.