Former Beatles drummer Pete Best transforms one of their favourite clubs into a B&B

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The former drummer of The Beatles Pete Best has transformed The Casbah Club - where the band used to play - into a Bed and Breakfast.

Best's mother Mona opened the club in the cellar of the Bests' home and is where The Beatles played some of their first concerts.

Best, now aged 82, was fired from The Beatles in 1962 aged 20 by manager Brian Epstein, who deemed that he wasn't as good a drummer as Ringo Starr, who Epstein then brought in to replace Best.

The Beatles then went on to become the most successful music artists in history.

The first to stay in the new B&B were a couple from Glasgow, who enjoyed the Sir Paul McCartney Suite.

 
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The Clash - "Rock The Casbah" (1982)

Were the London punk rockers referring to both The Beatles' old haunt and the global geopolitical situation at the time in the same song or were they just referring to the latter?

It's been a matter of debate for 40 years.