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Lennon founded a skiffle group with his close friend Pete Shotton and after a week of gaining new members, they named themselves The Quarrymen. [3] The Quarrymen played at parties, school dances, cinemas and amateur skiffle contests before Paul McCartney joined in early July, 1957.
Oct 1, 2023 · The Quarrymen were formed in 1956 by Lennon and some friends from school. The name of the group was chosen because Lennon, Pete Shotton, Len Garry, Rod Davis, Colin Hanton, and Eric Griffiths, attended Quarry Bank High School.
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The Quarrymen were formed in 1956 at Quarry Bank School by John Lennon, with Bill Smith, Pete Shotton, Eric Griffiths and Rod Davis. Others came and went, like Ivan Vaughan and Nigel Walley (who became manager).
Jan 21, 2009 · John Lennon started the Quarrymen (sometimes written as Quarry Men) in March of 1957, with Lennon on vocals and guitar, Pete Shotton on washboard, Eric Griffiths on guitar, Rod Davis on banjo and guitar, and Bill Smith on washtub bass.
Sep 5, 2011 · This was the original Quarrymen. John was playing ukulele chords taught to him by his mum and he was singing Come Go with Me, by the Del Vikings, but he was making up his own words, because nobody knew the words in those days; nobody had the record: We'd only heard it on the radio and loved it.
The Quarrymen (also written as "the Quarry Men") were a British skiffle/rock and roll group, formed by John Lennon in Liverpool in 1956, which evolved into the Beatles in 1960. Originally consisting of Lennon and several schoolfriends, the Quarrymen took their name from a line in the school song...
Oct 2, 2012 · The Beatles started as The Quarrymen, a skiffle group formed by John Lennon and his friends at Quarry Bank school in Liverpool.
