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Pete Best

1941 - Today

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Randolph Peter Best (né Scanland; born 24 November 1941) is an English musician who was the drummer for the Beatles from 1960 to 1962. He was dismissed shortly before the band achieved worldwide fame and is one of several people referred to as a fifth Beatle. Best's mother, Mona Best (1924–1988), opened the Casbah Coffee Club in the cellar of the Bests' house in Liverpool. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pete Best has received more than 5,204,977 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia. Pete Best is the 131st most popular musician (up from 158th in 2019), the 88th most popular biography from India (up from 104th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Indian Musician.

Pete Best is most famous for being the original drummer for the Beatles.

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  • 5.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 64.38

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 51

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.07

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Pete Best ranks 131 out of 3,175. Before him are Gary Moore, Nat King Cole, Jacqueline du Pré, Mike Oldfield, Neil Peart, and Fritz Kreisler. After him are Ronnie Wood, Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Fernando Sor, Buddy Holly, Roger Glover, and Arnaut Daniel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Pete Best ranks 54. Before him are Princess Muna al-Hussein, Nona Gaprindashvili, Hage Geingob, Riccardo Muti, Ivan Gašparovič, and Abdullah Yusuf Azzam. After him are Jordi Savall, Dan Shechtman, Mircea Snegur, Gérson, Viktor Zubkov, and Claudine Auger.

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In India

Among people born in India, Pete Best ranks 88 out of 1,861. Before him are Ramana Maharshi (1879), Rajendra Prasad (1884), Lawrence Durrell (1912), Nathuram Godse (1910), Pervez Musharraf (1943), and Bindusara (-320). After him are Ram Mohan Roy (1772), Varāhamihira (505), Patanjali (-200), Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835), Ramanuja (1017), and Ronald Ross (1857).

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Among MUSICIANS In India

Among musicians born in India, Pete Best ranks 2. Before him are Amir Khusrow (1253). After him are Cliff Richard (1940), Ravi Shankar (1920), Ram Narayan (1927), Tansen (1493), Bismillah Khan (1916), Ilaiyaraaja (1943), Barry Hay (1948), Hariprasad Chaurasia (1938), Christian Zacharias (1950), and Trilok Gurtu (1951).

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