THE HAPPIEST BEATLE OF ALL.

FOR more than 40 years, the name Pete Best has been synonymous with the notion of the man who so nearly had it all. One day he was the drummer with The Beatles; the next he wasn't. On the very brink of fame, the other three band members ditched him. And he never saw it coming. And yet as we talked this week, surrounded by drums and recording equipment, and with a photograph of John Lennon staring at us from a wall, there was not one trace of bitterness. 'What's the point in saying, "I should have been this", or "I could have been that?"' he says simply. 'That's yesterday. Forty years ago. What's important is what's happening today and tomorrow. When you realise that, you get on with it.' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]