Haymans Green

Pete Best | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 16, 2008)
• Original Release Date: 2008
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Lightyear Entertainment
• ASIN: B001DSNFU0
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (41 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #73,276 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Pete Best, original drummer for The Beatles, has delivered an incredible, surprising album. Rock'n'roll history tells us that The Beatles began at the Casbah Coffee House, in the Best family basement, and that Pete was an integral part of the group that did two tours of Germany and participated in early recordings for BBC, Polydor, Decca, and EMI. After his mysterious firing and loss of the opportunity of a lifetime, he withdrew from the music business for many years, but eventually formed The Pete Best Band and hit the road doing sold-out gigs, playing the songs that The Beatles performed in Hamburg. But after a critically lauded PBS special and DVD release in 2006, Best of The Beatles, Pete and his band started to record an album that would show the world something new and different, all original songs which tantalizingly hint at the creativity that Pete could have brought to The Beatles had he remained in the group. This is that album. Beyond all expectations.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If This Were A McCartney Release It Would Be Hailed As A Triumph, January 22, 2009

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John Fracchia - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Haymans Green (Audio CD)

I've bought Pete Best's titles because I'm a bit of a Beatles completist and because I met him a few years back and he's a very down to earth and charming man.

None of his previous releases could have prepare me for Haymans Green. The song writing, both melodically and lyrically, is first rate. The production is modern while at the same time harkening back to the late 1960's. The songs have great hooks and even better vocal arrangements. And while you can certainly hear a later Beatles influence in the work, more surprising were the times that I heard elements that reminded me of the Kinks, Crowded House or vocally, Jon Anderson of YES. Three weeks after purchasing the disc I still find myself singing many of the songs.

This record deserves airplay and it deserves a Grammy nomination. In the past twenty years, there are few titles that I would say that about, including ones that won Grammys.

Stand out tracks include:

Grey River
Gone
Dream Me Home
Hayman's Green
Broken

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great cover, surprising album, February 21, 2009

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Heavy Theta (Lorton, Va United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Haymans Green (Audio CD)

My girlfriend gave this to me as a valentine's present. As soon as I saw it I ran over to the rack to compare it with Beatles Anthology I. Yep, it's the very piece of photo with Pete's head that Klaus so clumsily ripped from the front cover. Ya gotta love Pete's attitude right from first glance.

Not groundbreaking (what is these days?), the recording sounds all the world like archetypal swinging england mid-60's fare, from some well reviewed corduroy garbed quartet. The songs have that easy beat, Rickenbacker ring, with a lead singer who could easily pass for another Gallagher brother.

Nothing like the Pete Best show I saw a couple of years ago. A charming though obviously derivative recreation of the Cavern show. Pete came out afterwards and was happy to talk to everyone who hung around. Perfectly lovely man.

Gotta be happy for the guy that this cd turned out so damn well. it definitely does not suffer in comparison to any recent efforts from his former mate(s). I hope it gets the publicity it deserves. (Nice to see all the reviews so far in Amazon.)

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars RANKS AS ONE OF THE BEST BY AN EX-BEATLE, March 31, 2009

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David G. Christoffersen (Central NJ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Haymans Green (Audio CD)

The title of my review is my review. I'm a Beatles "complete-ist." My brother kids me that my goal in life is to own every note The Beatles ever played. So of course I bought this. I was prepared to listen to it once and then shelve it. Instead I played it over and over for days. Few ex-Beatles albums have I enjoyed as much. I made a conservative list of what I think are the 12 absolute best albums/cds by ex-Beatles. This is one of them. Someone should play it for George Martin.