Anyone who knows the history of the Pete Best Band or the Combo, we were on the verge of breaking in in America. In the mid-'60s, I had great songwri…

- Pete Best

I'm happier than I would have been with the Beatles.

- Pete Best

Liverpool was an industrial town, a poor town. The people fought hard for what they wanted to achieve and there was a hunger there, and that hunger h…

- Pete Best

The first one I actually met was George Harrison.

- Pete Best

I walked out of the show business in 1968 because I thought that would be good for the family. It took me some time to decide but I wanted to spend m…

- Pete Best

John and I would go and have a couple of quiet beers, just to sit down and chew the fat. And he'd talk about Cynthia and how much he missed her

- Pete Best

When I came back into show business in '88 after spending 20-odd years in the civil service, it wasn't planned.

- Pete Best

We were at our best when we were playing in the dance halls of Liverpool and Hamburg. The world never saw that.

- Pete Best