Martin Apologizes To Replaced Beatles Drummer
The topic of the sacking of Pete Best has always been a touchy subject. Obviously, no one really like to talk about. It’s sensitive, and uneasy. It is clouded in mystery as well. There really is no clear answer as to why Pete Best was fired. There has never been definitive closure on the topic. No one can pinpoint one reason for the dismissal.
It seems strange now that George Marting would even bring up the topic. It happened all those years ago. Why open up old wounds for Pete? Why dredge up the topic once again? It a nice gesture to publically apologize for the sacking, but doesn’t this apology come nearly 40+ years too late?
Here’s what we’ve read.
Legendary producer Sir George Martin has made a public apology to replaced Beatles drummer Pete Best.
The 66-year-old musician was part of the fab four from 1960 to 1962, before Ringo Starr was drafted into the band to take his place - and the music mogul now insists he feels “guilty” over the dismissal.
Martin authorized the change just before the Beatles shot to fame, with Best going on to work as a civil servant for 20 years before establishing his own band years later.
Martin says, “I felt guilty. Maybe I was the catalyst that changed his life.”
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I don’t think the apology was late. It’s better than never. No one at the time knew how significant the Beatles would become and it wasn’t done to intentionally hurt Pete.
I have talked to Pete recently and he certainly gives the impression that he is very happy with his life and the things that he is freely able to do.
Isn’t this being taken out of context?
I doubt that Mr Martin popped up from his retirement couch and screamed his apology from the highest mountain appropros of nothing.
This is a small segment from a magazine interview being hauled into unnecessary limelight.
And anyway, I don’t see how it would “open up old wounds”. I’ve met old enemies of mine from school who have apologized for things they’ve done to me a long time ago, and it always makes me very happy to finally forgive and forget. Sometimes later in life you look back at things you’ve done and you think “I really shouldn’t have done that” and you want to apologize to clear your conscience. There’s nothing wrong with that. Nothing wrong at all.
PETE IS A GREAT PERSON AND DRUMMER TOO.
HE HAS DONE WELL WITH HIS LIFE, WIFE AND KIDS, HIS HEALTH IS GOOD, HE LOVES TOURING WITH HIS BAND.
I’M SURE PETE HAS FORGIVEN THEM YEARS AGO, BESIDES , HE IS ONLY ONE OF THREE PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD, WHO CAN SAY THEY WERE BEATLES.