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. He was born in the city of Madras, British India. 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 was where The Beatles (then known as The Quarrymen) played some of their first concerts. Best played there with his first band, The Black Jacks, and later with The Beatles.