Think about leaving a rock band earlier than they obtained well-known? That is what occurred to all of those musicians.

Nobody in rock historical past has come to represent a possibility missed fairly like Pete Finest. Left behind by the Beatles earlier than they grew to become worldwide stars, his title all the time appears to pop up when somebody suffers an analogous destiny.

However as proven on the next listing of rock’s most memorable pre-fame departures, he is hardly the one one in music historical past who simply missed out on the highlight. Finest was quickly seeing fairly relatable headlines about former members of The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd and The Who. Historical past continued to repeat itself, even into the ’90s with Nirvana.

The Beatles employed Finest in a rush simply days earlier than they had been to depart for a 48-night stand on the India Membership in Hamburg, Germany. (It helped that his mom additionally owned a Liverpool dwell music house.) The group honed their expertise for 2 years with Finest, however he by no means made it onto their studio debut. As a substitute, Ringo Starr had completely taken over.

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They’d been turned down by Decca Information with Finest within the lineup. After lastly signing with Parlophone in 1962, producer George Martin was additionally sad with their preliminary periods. He really helpful utilizing a session drummer as an alternative and Finest was summarily fired.

The Beatles shot to worldwide fame whereas Finest returned to steer native bands again in Liverpool. He tried to take his personal life on the peak of Beatlemania however fortunately lived to see an enormous royalty test when materials from his time with the group was included on 1995’s eight-times platinum Anthology I compilation.

Sadly, most of the others on this countdown of rock’s most memorable pre-fame departures weren’t afforded the identical fairytale ending. In actual fact, most of them disappeared into full obscurity.