Pete Best BEST OF THE BEATLES original 1st release 2nd Issue 1966 SS/ Sticker

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RARE SS/wSTICKER COPY OF PETE BEST

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   The PETE BEST Group:

  BEST OF THE BEATLES

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    UK - SAVAGE RECORDS - BM 71

         Manufacturer : Savage Records
           Release date : 24 December 1966 

SCARCE 1st pressing 2nd issue of rare 1965 LP on the obscure SAVAGE Label. By the legendary BEATLES drummer PETE BEST ... this IS the real deal...a chance to own a piece of the BEATLES history... Still Sealed with price sticker

I’ve researched this December 1965-66 1st Pressing "Best album Savage BM71" and is a UK release and very rare. The 1st Cover issue was December 24, 1965 the lettering and circle around Pete Best head was in  "White", the 2nd Cover issue 1966 in "Blue" lettering with,"Blue" circle around Pete Best. From what I’m understanding very few made it to the US market. And to find one in this condition still seal with sticker is truly very rare.

The music is 1965 era beat rock, similar to that of the early Beatles in which their drummer Pete Best was suddenly fired and the rest is history in the Beatles replacing BEST with Ringo Starr...***This album, by the way, was pulled into court by Beatles management back in '65 for using the title "Best Of The Beatles" alleging the album did not contain Best Of Beatles music ... but in reality it was actually a clever play on words in (Pete) Best Of The Beatles...

Best was never fully told why he was dismissed, as the only reason Epstein stated was, "The lads don't want you in the group anymore". Epstein subsequently claimed in his autobiography that Lennon, McCartney and Harrison thought Best "too conventional to be a Beatle, and though he was friendly with John, he was not liked by George and Paul". It has been documented (notably in Cynthia Lennon's book, John) that while Lennon, McCartney, and Harrison usually spent their offstage time together in Hamburg and Liverpool, writing songs or socializing, Best generally went off alone. This left Pete Best on the outside, as he was not privy to many of the group's experiences, references, and in-jokes.

An article in "Time" magazine from 1966 reads:

"The record jacket reads Best of the Beatles, and it was a hot seller in the 1965 Christmas rush—or at least it was before it was brought up at a New York State Bureau of Consumer Frauds' hearing. Despite the billing, the album does not contain a collection of the best of the Beatles' hits—or even a single song by the Beatles.

Yet, in a way, Savage Records could justify the title of its album. "Best" refers to Peter Best, the drummer who was indeed "of the Beatles" during the scruffy, scrambling days when John, George and Paul were plucking from pub to pub. Then just as the lightning (now estimated to be worth $10 million) began to strike, Best was bounced in favor of Ringo.

"Too Conventional." "It's not so much the money that hurts," says Best today. "It's the heartbreak." When he joined the boys in 1960, they were known as the Silver Beatles and off to Hamburg for their first engagement out of Great Britain; their weekly take was an unimpressive $20 each. Best earned his passage with the suggestion that the "Silver" be dropped, because "it sounds a bit corny."*Best also contributed to the essential trip-hammering back-up for the Beatle beat; until his arrival, they were all guitars. A year later, Brian Epstein came aboard as the Beatles' manager and added the final refinements. Their hair, shorter than now, was to be kept kempter. "Out," recalls Best, "went our leather jackets. In came mohair suits."

Out also went Best—just as the group signed the contract with Britain's E.M.I, and recorded Love Me Do, the first of the sides that were to wing them to fame. Best had been with the band during the test session, but the recording company judged him to be the worst. The other Beatles went along with the decision. Among other things, says Epstein, they felt that Best was "too conventional to be a Beatle."

Red Tape. Peter was so "downfallen, so sick in the stomach that I never left my house." His Liverpool fans, feeling equally ill, loyally marched along the Mersey, carrying banners proclaiming "Peter Forever, Ringo Never." Even with a bodyguard, Beatle George Harrison got his eye blackened. It was three weeks before Best felt up to leaving the house, but, unlike his fans, he bore no personal rancor. "I saw John and George in Liverpool a couple of minutes," he notes. "We're still the best of friends. I asked them, 'How's your mother?'"

I Need Your Loving
Just Wait and See
Casting My Spell
Keys To My Heart
Why Did You Leave Me Baby?
Shimmy Like My Sister Kate
I Can't Do Without You Now
I'm Blue
Some Other Guy
She's All right
Nobody But You
Last Night...

CONDITION: The Cover: in fine M- shape with bright colors, no bends, no split seams, no writing, and no ring wear. The only signs of wear (Age) most likely is at mouth opening under the shrink showing age cracking. But still a great investment item and true piece of Beatles history

      A Great and historical addition to anyone's music library! Don't let it Slip by you!

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