Pete Best has transformed the Beatles’ venue into an AirBnB

Call it “Let It AirBnb”: Original drummer Pete Best and his younger brother Roag have converted one of the first venues where the Beatles performed into a short-term rental property.

The Casbah Coffee Club hosted the early Beatles nearly 40 times, after John Lennon’s former Quarrymen band played there on seven nights. The venue at 8 Haymans Green in Liverpool was opened in the basement of Best’s family home in 1956 and was run by his mother Mona.

She had initially tried to get a residency with the Les Stewart Quartet, which also included the young George Harrison, but the two suddenly split up before the premiere. “George basically turned around and said, ‘I happen to know a couple of guys who aren’t doing anything,'” says Pete Best. The Guardian. “It turned out to be John Lennon and Paul McCartney.”

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There are now five AirBnB units above the club, each named after the founding members of the Beatles – Lennon, Best, McCartney, Harrison and doomed founding bassist Stuart Sutcliffe. Roag Best, later revealed to be the son of Beatles tour manager Neil Aspinall, has been renovating the property with his sibling for more than three years.

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Rooms cost around $200 a night and are decorated with exclusive Beatles memorabilia, including band photos, classic posters and vintage instruments. Bookings have already attracted people from across the UK, as well as from Scotland, Canada and the US.

There is no suite dedicated to Ringo Starr, who later replaced Pete Best when the Beatles were recording a final version of their debut single “Love Me Do”. “Everything we do is about being authentic and the Beatles who performed and celebrated here were John, Paul, George, Pete and Stuart,” said Roag Best The Guardian“Ringo was never a member when he was here.”

Pete Best has said he still doesn’t know why producer George Martin made the casting change, but he bears no ill will. “I still don’t know the reason, but it doesn’t bother me in the slightest,” Best said. “As far as I’m concerned, it happened over 60 years ago and I’ve lived my life. I’ve had a great life. It did cause me grief and resentment at first, but that’s show business.”

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