It is well written history now that The Beatles in their early years had a few line-up changes before settling on the core four of PAUL, JOHN, RINGO, and GEORGE. It was drummer PETE BEST who drove the beats during the band’s hundreds of CAVERN CLUB shows through 1961 and 1962. These shows were pivotal to the bands early development and eventual rise to global fame. During this time, there wasn’t a distinctive “Beatles” logo associated with them as the group were still experimenting with their identity, both musically and visually.

Ringo replaced Best in 1962 and it was actually the next year, during 1963 when Ringo needed a new set of drums that The Beatles most enduring logo would be born. Brian Epstein and Ringo went to a local drum shop and it was the shop’s owner, Ivor Arbiter, who ended up sketching the “drop-T logo” that same day. The larger B and T were to emphasize the word “Beat”. Interestingly , this logo never appeared on any of the band’s studio album covers and only came to prominence again in the 1990’s.