How it all began
John
Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr
were four young men from Liverpool. They shared a love of
America's new music: rock and roll.
The group started as John Lennon's school band The
Quarrymen. John met Paul
McCartney when The Quarrymen played a
summer fete in 1957. A few months later McCartney met
the younger George Harrison on a bus.
The
first recording made by The Beatles, with John singing
Buddy Holly's 'That'll be the Day'.
John then asked his best friend from art school,
Stuart Sutcliffe
to play bass. A
drummer named Pete Best completed the group.
In 1960 the band went to Hamburg, before returning to
Liverpool to play at The Cavern.
Ringo Starr
did not join the group until Pete Best left in
1962.
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