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Sorry, Pete
The terrible treatment of Australia's indigenous people. Slavery. Apologising for historical wrongs is quite the thing at the moment.
George Martin has just donned the sackcloth, issuing a sort-of apology to Pete Best for his part in Best getting shown the door from The Beatles:
It was Sir George who, just before the band became big, decided to replace the drums on Love Me Do with those of a session musician. “I felt guilty,” he tells a Beatles fansite. “Maybe I was the catalyst that had changed his life.”
'The catalyst that changed his life' is quite a jolly way of putting 'the person responsible for him languishing in obscurity while his replacement became one of the richest, most famous men on the planet.'
Still, Pete had the last laugh - he's still in The Beatles, albeit Pete Best's Beatles, while Ringo Starr is a struggling solo artist.
1 comment:
When they came to do the record, it was actually Ringo's drums that were replaced by a session drummer.
Pete Best had already been sacked by that time, although Love Me Do was one of the songs recorded with him at the demo session for EMI several months earlier, when George Martin hadn't been too impressed.
Regards,
Mr Nitpicker
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