IS PETE BEST ONE OF THE UNLUCKIEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD?

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Some have touted him as one of the unluckiest people in the world.  After 2 years of struggling with The Beatles particularly during their Hamburg years, Pete Best was kicked-out of the band at the start of the recording of their first single "Love Me Do".  Then the rest, as they say, was lost opportunity.

Beatle books account that he was fired due to his skills in drumming (or the lack of), he was too goodlooking, more popular with the fan girls, he was aloof...and other reasons that were not clear even to Pete.

When the group heard that Martin and the engineers preferred a session drummer for their upcoming recording session, Lennon, McCartney, and Harrison asked Epstein—who had taken over as manager in January—to dismiss Best from the band.^[43] ... Epstein agonised about the decision. As he wrote in his autobiography, A Cellarful of Noise, he "wasn't sure" about George Martin's assessment of Best's drumming and "was not anxious to change the membership of the Beatles at a time when they were developing as personalities...so...I asked the Beatles to leave the group as it was."^[46] ...Ultimately, Epstein decided that "if the group was to remain happy Pete Best must go"^[46] so he called Best to his office and dismissed him on 16 August 1962, which was two years and four days after Best had joined the group.  source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Best

Yet one fact remains true, Pete Best is known as The Beatles' original drummer.  I don't consider this unlucky at all.