The Beatles fans were left laughing after realising Ringo Starr used to bring a strange item with him on tour, with the solo ...

Drummer Pete Parada claims he was dropped from rock band The Offspring after an ‘abusive and threatening’ call from management. In 2021, Parada made the shock announcement that he was leaving the ...

Pete Parada, the former drummer for The Offspring, has detailed the controversial circumstances surrounding his dismissal ...

Pete Best is staring up at a cluster of framed photographs. Now 82, he's looking back at a younger version of himself. One, with dark hair in a leather jacket, is sitting in front of a drum kit.

Brian Epstein signed up Pete Best, George Harrison, Paul McCartney, and John Lennon in 1962 A letter from The Beatles' manager following the sacking of the band's original drummer is up for auction.

Finding themselves without a permanent drummer in 1960, the pre-fame Beatles hired local Liverpool skinsman Pete Best -- but his time in the band would be short lived. After recording a demo for ...

Even though the breakout album 'Pyromania' by Def Leppard was already halfway recorded, a fateful shake-up was required. Read ...

In February 1961, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Pete Best played their first gig at the Cavern Club as The Beatles. Just two years later, and after a change of drummer ...

The club was opened in 1959 by original Beatles drummer Pete Best's mother Beatles fans will be able to stay at the club where the Fab Four performed some of their earliest gigs. The Casbah Coffee ...

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became ...