Haymans Green
Artistthe Pete Best Band
CoverHaymans Green.JPG
Released16 September 2008
Recorded2006–2008
StudioThe Casbah Coffee Club, Liverpool, England
GenrePop rock
LabelLightyear Music
Producer
  • Roag Best
  • Phil Melia
  • Paul Parry

Haymans Green [nb 1] 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. 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.

Hayman's Green is the street in West Derby, Liverpool, where Best's mother Mona ran the Casbah Coffee Club.[1]

Track listing

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

Personnel

  • Pete Best – drums
  • Roag Best – drums, percussion
  • Tony Flynn – guitar, backing vocals, lead vocal on 4, second lead vocal on 9[2]
  • Phil Melia  – guitar, harmonica, backing vocals, lead vocal on 3
  • Paul Parry – guitar, piano, keyboards, lead vocals on all tracks except 3/4/8, backing vocals

Engineers – Nic Johnston and Kenny Jones

References

  1. ^ Lewisohn, Mark (1992). The complete Beatles chronicles. New York: Harmony Books. p. 358. ISBN 9780517581001.
  2. ^ RadioRockonTour review

Notes

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