Editing Fifth Beatle (section)

===Pete Best===
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Pete Best was an early drummer of the Beatles.<ref>{{cite news |title='Fifth Beatle' Pete Best's 'True' Story |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1417891 |publisher=[[NPR]] |date=2 September 2003 |access-date=23 September 2012 }}</ref> He played with the band during their time as a club act, in both [[Liverpool]] and Hamburg, West Germany. The band during this period consisted of Best; bassist Stuart Sutcliffe; and guitarists McCartney, Harrison, and Lennon. Best continued to perform with the band until mid-August 1962, when he was fired and replaced by Ringo Starr. The first official Beatles release to include performances by Best was ''[[Anthology 1]]'' in 1995, whereupon he commented, "Lots of people have laid claim to being the fifth Beatle. I was the fourth, and now I'm getting the credit for it."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Humphries |first1=Patrick |last2=Dogget |first2=Peter |title=The Beatles: The Music And The Myth |date=2010 |publisher=Omnibus Press |isbn=978-0-85712-361-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YbQAUhdlR9gC&pg=PT281 |access-date=19 June 2020 |language=en}}</ref>