Pete Best's jacket

Accession number MLL.2006.27

Detail of signatures on collar and inside of jacket

Pete Best, the original drummer for The Beatles 1960-1962, wore this honeycomb patterned shirt jacket at the recording session of 'My Bonnie' and all of the band's first German sessions for Polydor.

The jacket is signed three times by Pete on the front, collar and inside.

Red jacket with black pattern, black collar and black trim, displayed on a mannequin

Be part of our Beatles exhibition

We'd like to include your memories and stories in the new Museum of Liverpool's 'Growing up with The Beatles' exhibition and on this website. Are you a Beatles fan? Does this jacket trigger any memories or anecdotes? If so then we would love to hear from you.

E-mail the Museum of Liverpool and tell us what comes to mind while looking at our Beatles collection. Please include your name, age, where you are from and your contact details if you'd like to get involved.

'Growing up with The Beatles' is one of the displays being planned for the new Museum of Liverpool, which opens in 2011.

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