On July 6, 1957, 16-year-old John Lennon met 15-year-old Paul McCartney. It was at St. Peter’s, Woolton’s Parish Church in Liverpool, and John was taking part in with the Quarry Males at a church fete/backyard celebration.
It was a Saturday afternoon and Paul had gone alongside to the fete together with his pal, Ivan Vaughan, to observe John’s skiffle group, The Quarry Males. (The group was made up of Eric Griffiths, Colin Hanton, Rod Davis, John Lennon, Pete Shotton, and Len Garry.) The group took their identify from Quarry Financial institution Excessive Faculty, which all of them attended.
The Quarry Males performed on a makeshift stage, in a area behind the church. John performed the guitar and sang, whereas Eric Griffiths additionally performed guitar, Colin Hanton, the drums, Rod Davies a banjo, Pete Shotton was on washboard and Len Garry performed the inevitable, tea-chest bass.
Issues had obtained underway within the early afternoon with a brief parade by means of this up-market space of Liverpool, with a few lorries bringing the Rose Queen, on the primary lorry, with the Quarry Males on a second lorry. The largest problem for John and his mates within the band was to remain upright on the again of the shifting automobile whereas persevering with to play; as soon as within the area behind the church issues obtained just a little simpler.
Within the night the Quarry Males performed at The Grand Dance within the church corridor, reverse the church; sharing the invoice with the George Edwards Band. Ivan Vaughan had on events performed tea-chest bass with the Quarry Males and it was he who launched Paul to John.
McCartney, sporting a white jacket with silver flecks and the compulsory black drainpipe trousers, talked with John for a short time and having proven John a method for tuning, McCartney performed some songs, together with a medley of Little Richard’s tunes, together with Eddie Cochran‘s “Twenty Flight Rock” and Gene Vincent‘s “Be-Bop-A-Lula.”
In keeping with Paul, “I remember John singing a song called ‘Come Go With Me.’ He’d heard it on the radio. He didn’t really know the verses, but he knew the chorus. The rest he just made up himself. I just thought, ‘Well, he looks good, he’s singing well and he seems like a great lead singer to me.’ Of course, he had his glasses off, so he really looked suave. I remember John was good.”
Afterward, John and Pete Shotton talked over whether or not or to not ask Paul to hitch The Quarry Males. They determined it might be a good suggestion and a few weeks later Shotton noticed Paul using his bike in Woolton and requested him to hitch. After just a little thought, Paul agreed to turn out to be a member.
And the remainder, as they are saying, is historical past.
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