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Beatles fans can ‘eat, sleep and party’ in Liverpool club turned into B&B by original member Pete Best | UK News

Standing on the top floor of the house where he used to live, Pete Best is staring up at a cluster of framed photographs.

Now 82, he’s looking back at a younger version of himself. One, with dark hair in a leather jacket, is sitting in front of a drum kit.

The three men who stood beside him are easy to recognise – his former bandmates, George Harrison, Sir Paul McCartney and John Lennon.

They’d go on to form part of music’s most famous quartet.

Original Beatles drummer Pete Best at 8 Hayman's Green in the Derby area of Liverpool, the location of the Casbah Club, where the Beatles started their career, which has been launched as an Airbnb. Best's mother Mona ran the Casbah in the coal cellar of their home in West Derby, Liverpool, from 1959 to 1962, with local teenagers The Quarrymen playing the opening night in August 1959. Members of The Quarrymen would go on to form The Beatles. Picture date: Wednesday August 21, 2024.
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Best said he has had time to reflect on one of the biggest ‘what ifs’ in music. Pic: PA

While Best was dropped from the line-up and replaced by Ringo Starr, six decades on, he says he has had time to reflect on one of the biggest “what ifs” in pop history.

“I’ve had 60 great years of being Pete as well as being a Beatle. It is part of your life, it’s lovely to be associated with it, but life goes on,” he said.

“Initially it was a lot of hardship and financial embarrassment, but life compensates. Maybe it was my karma, maybe it wasn’t meant to be.”

As well as taking the time to think, Best has come up with business ventures founded on his connection to the group.

The latest, launched today by Best and his younger brother Roag, gives the public a chance to stay in their old home.

The house at 8 Hayman's Green in the West Derby area of Liverpool that was the location of the Casbah Club, where the Beatles started their career, which has been launched as an Airbnb. Original Beatles drummer Pete Best's mother Mona ran the Casbah in the coal cellar of their home in West Derby, Liverpool, from 1959 to 1962, with local teenagers The Quarrymen playing the opening night in August 1959. Members of The Quarrymen would go on to form The Beatles. Picture date: Wednesday August 21, 20
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The house at 8 Hayman’s Green in the West Derby area of Liverpool. Pic: PA

It also happened to be one of the places where the Beatles began to take their first steps in the industry.

The Casbah Club is a grade II listed Victorian mansion, bought by Best’s mother Mona, who had the idea of a members-only club for her sons and their friends, to meet and listen to music.

The imprints of The Beatles, then known as The Quarrymen, are all over the basement where they would have played.

The group helped decorate the space and you can still see where John Lennon carved his name into the walls with a penknife. On sweaty evenings, hundreds of people would have crammed in to watch their gigs.

The Lennon Suite at the Casbah Club Airbnb. The house at 8 Hayman's Green in the Derby area of Liverpool, the location of the Casbah Club, where the Beatles started their career, has been launched as an Airbnb. Original Beatles drummer Pete Best's mother Mona ran the Casbah in the coal cellar of their home in West Derby, Liverpool, from 1959 to 1962, with local teenagers The Quarrymen playing the opening night in August 1959. Members of The Quarrymen would go on to form The Beatles. Picture date
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The Lennon Suite. Pic: PA

The Best Suite at the Casbah Club Airbnb. The house at 8 Hayman's Green in the Derby area of Liverpool, the location of the Casbah Club, where the Beatles started their career, has been launched as an Airbnb. Original Beatles drummer Pete Best's mother Mona ran the Casbah in the coal cellar of their home in West Derby, Liverpool, from 1959 to 1962, with local teenagers The Quarrymen playing the opening night in August 1959. Members of The Quarrymen would go on to form The Beatles. Picture date:
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The Best Suite. Pic: PA

Today, there were dozens of people downstairs and more people in the rooms upstairs, which guests can now book.

The suites are named after Paul, John, George, Peter and original bass player Stuart Sutcliffe – but not Ringo.

The Sutcliffe Suite at the Casbah Club Airbnb. The house at 8 Hayman's Green in the Derby area of Liverpool, the location of the Casbah Club, where the Beatles started their career, has been launched as an Airbnb. Original Beatles drummer Pete Best's mother Mona ran the Casbah in the coal cellar of their home in West Derby, Liverpool, from 1959 to 1962, with local teenagers The Quarrymen playing the opening night in August 1959. Members of The Quarrymen would go on to form The Beatles. Picture d
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The Sutcliffe Suite. Pic: PA

The Harrison Suite at the Casbah Club Airbnb. The house at 8 Hayman's Green in the Derby area of Liverpool, the location of the Casbah Club, where the Beatles started their career, has been launched as an Airbnb. Original Beatles drummer Pete Best's mother Mona ran the Casbah in the coal cellar of their home in West Derby, Liverpool, from 1959 to 1962, with local teenagers The Quarrymen playing the opening night in August 1959. Members of The Quarrymen would go on to form The Beatles. Picture da
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The Harrison Suite. Pic: PA

“The Beatles played here, The Beatles partied here and The Beatles slept here,” said Best, adding the accommodation was a “projection” of his mother’s dream.

This moment is also a reminder of the fact that after Beatlemania, came a nostalgia that still has an appeal and still sells.

The McCartney Suite at the Casbah Club Airbnb. The house at 8 Hayman's Green in the Derby area of Liverpool, the location of the Casbah Club, where the Beatles started their career, has been launched as an Airbnb. Original Beatles drummer Pete Best's mother Mona ran the Casbah in the coal cellar of their home in West Derby, Liverpool, from 1959 to 1962, with local teenagers The Quarrymen playing the opening night in August 1959. Members of The Quarrymen would go on to form The Beatles. Picture d
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The McCartney Suite. Pic: PA

Evelyn and Andy were the first to book a room, travelling from Glasgow.

In the Paul McCartney suite, dotted with pictures of the man it’s named after, as well as a replica of his guitar, Evelyn described the Beatles as “almost like friends” to her. She added that she does her best to go to Beatles-themed events and places whenever she can.

But as well as a business opportunity, the house now being used as a bed and breakfast is a reflection on how close Best came to being part of Beatlemania.

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Debbie Greenberg, who ran the Cavern Club, another Liverpool venue famously linked to the group, can still remember when he was dropped from the line-up.

“Pete was a very good-looking guy and had a lot of followers. The word got round he’d been replaced by Ringo and we all started to chant,” recalled Ms Greenberg.

“We were all chanting ‘Pete forever, Ringo never’. To be suddenly replaced, when they were on the verge of something big, must have been so soul-destroying for him. So, you know he deserves everything he’s got today,” she added.

Queen ‘slipped away in her sleep’ in ‘very peaceful’ death, private secretary’s newly revealed memo says | UK News

Queen Elizabeth II “slipped away in her sleep” and had a “very peaceful” death, according to a memo written by her private secretary.

Sir Edward Young wrote a note about the late monarch’s final moments at Balmoral Castle, where she died on 8 September 2022, aged 96.

In a memo reported by the Daily Mail, Sir Edward wrote: “Very peaceful. In her sleep. Slipped away. Old age. She wouldn’t have been aware of anything. No pain.”

The document – now housed in the Royal Archives – is featured in a new biography of the King, entitled Charles III: New King, New Court. The Inside Story – by the Mail’s royal writer, Robert Hardman. The book is being serialised by the newspaper.

However, the book reveals the Queen died very suddenly – with Charles rushing to Balmoral by helicopter and reading the plans for events following her death, dubbed “London Bridge”, on the way.

The now-king and Queen Camilla spent an hour with his mother privately before she died.

Princess Anne and the late Queen’s senior dresser, Angela Kelly, took turns sitting at her bedside, together with Reverend Kenneth McKenzie, a minister at nearby Crathie Kirk – the church where the Royal Family worship when they are staying at Balmoral.

Charles called both Prince William and Prince Harry and told them to travel to Scotland as quickly as possible to say their final goodbyes, the biography says.

He went out to gather mushrooms and clear his head after seeing his mother – before being informed she had died as he was driving back to Balmoral, according to the Mail.

His most senior aide took a call, prompting Charles to pull over, when he was addressed for the first time as “Your Majesty”.

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When Charles called William via the Palace switchboard to break the news, he simply told the operator “it’s me” – as he could not yet reveal that he was king.

He tried to contact Harry, but he was already on a flight, the book says.

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According to the book, shortly after Sir Edward wrote the memo, a footman brought a locked red box of paperwork found at the Queen’s deathbed containing two sealed letters.

One was addressed to her son and heir, while the other was for Sir Edward, the Mail reports.

The box also held the Queen’s choice of candidates for the Order of Merit for “exceptionally meritorious service” across the Commonwealth.’

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The King later described the death of his mother as a “profound loss”.

He said of the late Queen: “During her life, she remained a constant source of inspiration for us all.”