Haymans Green

Haymans Green
Studio album by
Released16 September 2008 (2008-09-16)
Recorded2006 (2006)–2008 (2008)
StudiosThe Casbah Coffee Club, Liverpool, England
GenrePop rock
Length35:25
LabelLightyear Music
Producers
  • Roag Best
  • Phil Melia
  • Paul Parry
Singles from Haymans Green
  1. "Gone"
    Released: 16 September 2008
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Haymans Green is a 2008 album by the Pete Best Band, released by Lightyear Entertainment and distributed in the US and Canada by EMI. Pete Best plays drums, and co-wrote most of the tracks.

History

Hayman's Green is the street in West Derby, Liverpool, where Best's mother Mona ran the Casbah Coffee Club.

Artwork

The ripped image of the drummer on the cover is in reference to the "Anthology 1" illustration by artist Klaus Voormann. This fragment was removed from the "This is the [sic]…The Savage Young Beatles" grey market album cover of 1965 to show Ringo Starr's face from the "Please Please Me" photoshoot instead. Best and fellow beatle Stuart Sutcliffe appear elsewhere on the cover.

Reviews

Reviews of the album have been mostly favourable, and have described the sound as being influenced by the Beatles with whom Best played between 1960 and 1962.

Track listing

All tracks written by Pete Best, Roag Best, Phil Melia and Paul Parry, except where noted.

Haymans Green track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Come With Me"Roag Best, Phil Melia, Paul Parry2:23
2."Step Outside" 3:57
3."Round and Around" 2:38
4."Grey River" 3:18
5."Gone" 2:34
6."Dream Me Home" 3:47
7."Everything I Want"R. Best, Melia, Parry3:37
8."Beat Street"R. Best, Melia, Parry2:05
9."Broken" 3:56
10."Red Light" 4:01
11."Hayman's Green" 3:04
Total length:35:25

Personnel

Engineers – Nic Johnston and Kenny Jones

References

  1. ↑ Haymans Green at AllMusic
  2. ↑ Lewisohn, Mark (1992). The complete Beatles chronicles. New York: Harmony Books. p. 358. ISBN 9780517581001.
  3. ↑ Rossell, Raul (8 April 2011). "The Beatles Anthology 1 Album Cover Cropped Out Original Drummer Pete Best". FeelNumb.com. Archived from the original on 7 October 2019. Retrieved 29 July 2018.
  4. ↑ First Pete Best album with original songs, "Haymans Green," announced. The songwriting credits in the CD package list both Pete & Roag as simply "Best," and thus don't make it clear which one actually co-wrote tracks 1, 7 & 8.
  5. ↑ RadioRockonTour review

Notes

  1. ↑ The title track is listed as "Hayman's Green", but the graphic used for the CD title omits the apostrophe.