Editing Pete Best (section)

=== The Pete Best Band ===
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In 1988, after twenty years of turning down all requests to play drums in public, Best finally relented, appearing at a Beatles convention in Liverpool. He and his brother Roag performed, and afterwards, his wife and mother both told him, "You don't know it, but you're going to go back into show business."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thesouthern.com/entertainment/feature/article_87194d2b-7bd6-5f3a-ba63-c9fcca843e37.html |title=Meet Pete Best |first=Brent |last=Stewart |date=2 October 2008 |publisher=thesouthern.com |access-date=20 November 2010}}</ref><ref>[https://www.petebest.com/1988.asp Pete best homepage] petebest.com – Retrieved 21 November 2007 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120626073112/http://www.petebest.com/1988.asp |date=26 June 2012 }}</ref> The Pete Best Band's album ''[[Haymans Green]]'', made entirely from original material, was released on 16 September 2008 in the US, 24 October 2008 worldwide, excluding the UK, and 27 October 2008 in the UK.<ref>{{cite web |title=Haymans Green – Release Date |publisher=The Pete Best Forums |date=13 June 2008 |url=http://www.petebest.net/forums/showthread.php?t=2810 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100913223649/http://www.petebest.net/forums/showthread.php?t=2810 |url-status=dead |archive-date=13 September 2010 |access-date=15 September 2008 }}</ref>

Following a long run of regularly touring the world with the Pete Best Band, and sharing the drumming with his younger brother Roag, Best announced his retirement from public appearances and performing on April 5, 2025, "due to personal circumstances."<ref>{{cite web |last=Cain|first= Sian |title= Original Beatles drummer Pete Best announces his retirement|publisher= [[The Guardian]] |url= https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/apr/09/original-beatles-drummer-pete-best-announces-his-retirement|url-status=live |date=9 April 2025| access-date = 9 April 2025 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=Tomás Mier |date=April 7, 2025 |title=Pete Best, Original Beatles Drummer, Announces Retirement |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/pete-best-beatles-original-drummer-announces-retirement-1235311939/?fbclid=IwY2xjawJhG8RleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHkGjorDpBSzgfVgKF_8gHpRAcqGnm-CIEHfhc8gN9-IJrkSWCyhtWpElKKKZ_aem_hLpDmsUNYFsbG1eGRyDAsg |website=[[Rolling Stone]]}}</ref>