FORMER Beatles drummer Pete Best lit a candle for his old bandmate when he visited Prague’s Lennon Wall.

Best and his band performed a special concert in the Czech capital as part of the Imagine Liverpool Campaign, organised by The Beatles Story and VisitBritain to promote Liverpool as a tourism hotspot across the world.

The Beatles Story collaborated with the National Museum in Prague on its exhibition, Beatlemania, loaning the museum George Harrison’s gold-plated Dallas “E” banjolele and the original Madame Tussauds Beatles waxworks.

The Fab Four had a huge impact on Prague’s rising generation.

John Lennon became a national icon, representing freedom, peace and rebellion against mainstream culture.

Young people in Prague spontaneously established a memorial – the “Lennon Wall” – immediately after his death in 1980.

Beatles Story managing director Jerry Goldman said: “Pete performing in Prague was an exciting occasion for a nation of Beatles fans and a fantastic opportunity to promote Liverpool.”

Best was The Beatles’ original drummer but was replaced in 1962 with Ringo Starr.