Pete Best And The Beatles Question.

[saintpeter48]

After being sacked by the Fab Four just before they hit the big time, how much do you think he has made from it in the near 60 years since they fired him, what with all the TV and film documentaries, photos, recordings and, most of all, the Beatles Anthology, do you think he's made millions or just enough to be comfortable. Whatever it is it can never make up for what happened to him.

[Mamyalynne]

I have no idea how accurate this is


http://www.therichest.com/celebnetworth/celeb/rockstars/pete-best-net-worth/

[andy-hughes]

It is acknowledged generally that whatever Peter Best may or may not have made up to that point, the release of the Beatles Anthology collection made him a millionaire instantly, from his share of royalties for tracks on which he played.

You cannot really speak of ‘what was done to him’ – because that implies that the rest of the band sacked him because they knew they were going to change the known world forever, and just didn’t want him to have a share of it.

The truth is far more humdrum – they simply wanted a better drummer, and Ringo was a better drummer. What was ‘done to him’ is what happens to bands every day, some musicians don’t cut it for a variety of reasons, and I am sure they accept that fate was not on their side that day. There is little point in wondering what might (or indeed might not) have been.

What about Chris Stewart, John Silver and John Mayhew? Never heard of them? History was far more unkind to them – they were all drummers in Genesis before Phil Collins, and are routinely air-brushed from the band’s history.

[Peter Pedant]

whadda bout dexys midnight runners ?
at the time it was said that you turned around and it was a new line up
or as wiki puts it

During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Dexys went through numerous personnel changes over the course of three albums and thirteen singles, with only singer/songwriter/co-founder Kevin Rowland remaining in the band through all of the transitions and only Rowland and "Big" Jim Paterson (trombone) appearing on all of the albums

OK they didnt earn mounds of moolah