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Pete Best Much of the music that became part of the British invasion of the 1960s got its start in the basement of a home owned by Mona Best. She's the mother of Pete Best, who briefly played drums for The Beatles. Pete Best has written about his mother and the early days of the British music scene in The Beatles: The True Beginnings (St. Martin's Press; ISBN: 0-312-31925). He talks to NPR's Liane Hansen about the music club in his basement called The Casbah.

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Much of the music that became part of the British invasion of the 1960s got its start in the basement of a home owned by Mona Best. She's the mother of Pete Best, who briefly played drums for The Beatles. Pete Best has written about his mother and the early days of the British music scene in The Beatles: The True Beginnings (St. Martin's Press; ISBN: 0-312-31925). He talks to NPR's Liane Hansen about the music club in his basement called The Casbah.