THE BIRTH OF THE BEATLES
- McCartney and Lennon -
G'day folks,
Welcome to some facts about the birth of a famous band.
On July 6, 1957, in the midst of a heavy
heatwave then gripping Northern England (and all of Europe), 15-year-old
Paul McCartney decided to attend the annual Woolton Parish Church
Garden Fete. It wasn’t because he was an especially active church
member, but rather in the hopes to meet girls at the event. He may have
not met any girls, but he did happen to hear a high school band named
The Quarrymen performing.
McCartney was immediately impressed by their
sound, and after the show, he asked a mutual friend to introduce him to
the band’s lead singer, John Lennon.
You might think the two Liverpool teenagers would have probably met on
some other occasion. But as much as they had in common, the two boys
lived in different neighborhoods, went to different schools, and were
nearly two years apart in age. McCartney also happened to have his
guitar with him at the fair, and he managed to impress 17-year-old
Lennon greatly with his skills. The latter invited him to join the band,
and half of the Beatles was born.
Clancy's comment: What a great quartet.
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