Randolph Peter Best (born Scanland; born 24 November 1941) is an English musician known as the Beatles' drummer immediately before the band achieved worldwide fame. After he was fired from the group in 1962 after playing drums as a Beatle for the previous two and a half years in Germany and England, he started his own band, the Pete Best Four, and later joined and started many other bands over the years. He is one of several people who have been referred to as the Fifth Beatle although he was one of four Beatles before being replaced.