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The Quarrymen

February 07, 2023

The Quarrymen (also written as "the Quarry Men") are a British skiffle/rock and roll group, formed by John Lennon in Liverpool in 1956,[2] 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 of their school, the Quarry Bank High School. Lennon's mother, Julia, taught her son to play the banjo, showed Lennon and Eric Griffiths how to tune their guitars in a similar way to the banjo, and taught them simple chords and songs.

The Quarrymen
The Quarrymen performing in Rosebery Street, Liverpool on 22 June 1957[1] (Left to right: Hanton, Griffiths, Lennon, Garry, Shotton and Davis)
Background information
Also known as
  • The Blackjacks
  • Japage 3
  • Johnny and the Moondogs
OriginLiverpool, England
Genres
Years active
  • 1956 (1956)–1960 (1960)
  • 1994 (1994)–present
Labels
Spinoffs
Members
Past members
Websiteoriginalquarrymen.co.uk

Lennon founded a skiffle group that was briefly called the Blackjacks, but they changed the name before any public performances. Some accounts credit Lennon with choosing the new name; other accounts credit his close friend Pete Shotton with suggesting the name. The Quarrymen played at parties, school dances, cinemas and amateur skiffle contests before Paul McCartney joined in October 1957. George Harrison joined in early 1958 at McCartney's recommendation, though Lennon initially resisted because he felt Harrison (14 when he was introduced to Lennon) was too young. McCartney and Harrison attended the Liverpool Institute.

The group made an amateur recording in 1958, performing Buddy Holly's "That'll Be the Day" and "In Spite of All the Danger", a song written by McCartney and Harrison. The group moved towards rock and roll, causing several of the original members to leave. This left Lennon, McCartney, and Harrison, who performed under several other names, including Johnny and the Moondogs and Japage 3 before returning to the Quarrymen name in 1959. In 1960, the group changed their name to "The Beatles" (chosen for its double meaning). The name was conceived of late at night by Lennon and Stuart Sutcliffe, by then the group's fourth member, and introduced to the other two the next day. They were initially booked as "The Silver Beetles" by local clubs who saw it as a more sellable name than "The Beatles"[citation needed] and went on to be the best-selling music act of all time.

In 1997, the four surviving original members of the Quarrymen reunited to perform at the 40th anniversary celebrations of the garden fête performance at which Lennon and McCartney met for the first time. Since 1998, they have performed in countries outside the UK and released four albums. Three original members still perform as the Quarrymen.

History

Formation and early performances

In the mid-1950s, there was a revival in the United Kingdom of the musical form "skiffle" that had originated in the United States and had been popular in the US in the 1920s, '30s and '40s. In addition to its popularity among British teenagers as music to listen to, it also spawned a craze of teenage boys starting their own groups to perform the music. One of the primary attractions was that it did not require great musical skills or expensive instruments to be played.[3] Early British skiffle was played by traditional jazz musicians, with the most successful British proponent of the genre in the 1950s being Lonnie Donegan.[4] The Quarrymen's initial repertoire included several songs that Donegan had recorded.[5] When Lennon wanted to try making music himself, he and fellow Quarry Bank school friend, Griffiths, took guitar lessons in Hunt's Cross, Liverpool, although Lennon gave up the lessons soon after, as they were based on theory and not actual playing.[6]

As Griffiths already knew how to play the banjo, Lennon's mother showed them how to tune the top four strings of their guitars to the same notes as a banjo, and taught them the chords of D, C, and D7, as well as the Fats Domino song, "Ain't That a Shame".[6][7] They practised at Lennon's aunt's house (called Mendips) at 251 Menlove Avenue where Lennon lived, or at Griffiths' house in Halewood Drive.[8] They learned how to play "Rock Island Line", "Jump Down Turn Around (Pick a Bale of Cotton)", "Alabamy Bound" and "Cumberland Gap", and later learned how to play "That's All Right" and "Mean Woman Blues".[9][8]

Lennon and Griffiths decided to form a skiffle group in November 1956.[10] This initial line-up consisted of Lennon and Griffiths on guitars, Pete Shotton on washboard, and school friend Bill Smith on tea chest bass.[11][12] The group, initially called the Blackjacks, quickly changed their name to the Quarrymen. Both Lennon and Shotton have been credited with coining the name Quarrymen after a line in their school's song: 'Quarrymen, old before our birth. Straining each muscle and sinew.' The choice of name was tongue-in-cheek as Lennon regarded the reference in the school song to "straining each muscle and sinew" as risible.[5][13] Smith's tenure in the band was extremely short, and he was replaced in quick succession by Nigel Walley, Ivan Vaughan, and Len Garry throughout late 1956 and early 1957.[14] Also during this period, drummer Colin Hanton and banjo player Rod Davis joined the group.[14] This group of Lennon, Griffiths, Shotton, Garry, Hanton, and Davis formed the first stable line-up of the group.

 
The Quarrymen's instruments

The group first rehearsed in Shotton's house on Vale Road, but because of the noise, his mother told them to use the corrugated air-raid shelter in the back garden.[15] Rehearsals were moved from the cold air-raid shelter to Hanton's or Griffiths' house — as Griffiths' father had died in WWII, and his mother worked all day.[16] The band also often visited Lennon's mother at 1 Blomfield Road, listening to her collection of rock and roll records by Elvis, Shirley and Lee's "Let the Good Times Roll", and Gene Vincent's "Be-Bop-A-Lula" which they added to their repertoire.[17] After his tenure on tea-chest bass, Walley became the group's manager. He sent flyers to local theatres and ballrooms, and put up posters designed by Lennon: "Country-and-western, rock n' roll, skiffle band — The Quarrymen — Open for Engagements — Please Call Nigel Walley, Tel. Gateacre 1715".[16] Walley managed to secure the group several paid engagements throughout the spring of 1957, including one at The Cavern Club.[18] A jazz club at the time, the Cavern tolerated skiffle as it was considered an offshoot of jazz.[19] Lennon, however, began leading the band in several rock and roll numbers, prompting the club's manager to send up a note ordering the group to "cut out the bloody rock".[20]

In July 1957, Canadian impresario Carroll Levis held a talent contest in Liverpool, the winners of which would appear on the television series Star Search.[21] The Quarrymen played "Worried Man Blues", and were loudly applauded, but a group from Wales (called the Sunnyside Skiffle Group) "jumped all over the stage" and outshone the static Quarrymen, and were asked by Levis to fill in the last few minutes of the contest with a second song.[22] Lennon argued heatedly with Levis backstage, saying the Sunnyside Skiffle Group had brought a bus full of supporters with them, and were given "the upper hand" advantage by Levis.[22] After the competition, Levis used a clap-o-meter (a machine to measure the decibels of the audience's reaction to the groups) as they were asked to walk back out onto the stage. The Quarrymen and the Sunnyside Skiffle Group tied by both reaching ninety on the meter, but after a second test, the Quarrymen lost by a small margin.[23]

Paul McCartney joins the group

 
The photograph of the Quarrymen playing at St. Peter's Church garden fête, where Lennon and McCartney first met. From left to right: Griffiths, Hanton, Davis, Lennon, Shotton, Garry

On 6 July 1957, The Quarrymen played at the St. Peter's Church Rose Queen garden fête in Woolton. They first played on the back of a moving flatbed lorry, in a procession of floats that carried the Rose Queen and retiring Rose Queen, Morris dancers, Boy Scouts, Brownies, Girl Guides and Cubs, led by the Band of the Cheshire Yeomanry.[24] At 4:15, they played on a permanent stage in the field behind the church,[25] before a display by the City of Liverpool Police Dogs.[26][27] They were playing "Come Go with Me" when Paul McCartney arrived, and in the Scout hut after the set, Ivan Vaughan introduced McCartney to Lennon, who chatted for a few minutes before the band set up in the church hall for their performance at that evening's "Grand Dance".[28][29] McCartney demonstrated how he tuned his guitar and then sang Eddie Cochran's "Twenty Flight Rock", Gene Vincent's "Be-Bop-A-Lula", and a medley of Little Richard songs.[26][30]

Vaughan and McCartney left before the evening show which started at 8 o'clock.[31] During the performance, there was an unexpected thunderstorm, which made the lights go out.[32] Bob Molyneux, a young schoolmate from Quarry Bank, recorded part of the performance on his Grundig TK8 portable reel-to-reel tape recorder. The tape included versions of Lonnie Donegan's "Puttin' on the Style" and Elvis' "Baby Let's Play House". In 1963, Molyneux offered the tape to Lennon via Ringo Starr, but Lennon never responded, so Molyneux put the tape in a vault.[3][33]

As they were walking home after the evening performance, Lennon and Shotton discussed the afternoon encounter with McCartney, and Lennon said that perhaps they should invite McCartney to join the band. Two weeks later, Shotton encountered McCartney cycling through Woolton, and conveyed Lennon's casual invitation for him to join the Quarrymen, and Vaughan also invited McCartney to join.[26] McCartney said he would join after Scout camp in Hathersage, Derbyshire, and a holiday with his family at Butlins holiday camp in Filey, North Yorkshire.[34][35] Shotton and Davis both left the Quarrymen in August, feeling that the group was moving away from skiffle and towards rock, leaving their instruments superfluous.[36][35] When McCartney returned from holiday, he began rehearsing with the Quarrymen, playing songs such as "Bye Bye Love" (The Everly Brothers) and "All Shook Up", which Lennon and the group had been trying to learn, without success.[37]

McCartney made his debut with the band on 18 October 1957 at a Conservative Club social held at the New Clubmoor Hall in the Norris Green section of Liverpool.[38][34] Lennon and McCartney wore cream-coloured sports jackets, which were paid for by the whole group—Walley collected half a crown per week from each member until they were paid for — and the others wore white shirts with tassels and black bootlace ties.[38] To the irritation of the other group members, McCartney endlessly practised the lead guitar intro to "Raunchy". The Quarrymen continued to play sparse gigs throughout the autumn of 1957, mostly for local promoter Charlie McBain.[39] During this period, the group almost entirely excised skiffle from their repertoire, focusing on covers of songs by rock and roll singers such as Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Little Richard, and Larry Williams, and the Quarrymen's sound increasingly relied on harmony singing between Lennon and McCartney.[40] An extremely important influence for them at the time was Buddy Holly and his group the Crickets.[41] Around this time, Lennon and McCartney both started writing songs influenced by Holly – Lennon's "Hello Little Girl" and McCartney's "I Lost My Little Girl" – and both were impressed with each other's efforts.[42] The two young men began writing together.[43]

George Harrison's entry and recording

After McCartney's poor performance on lead guitar at the Conservative Club, the group needed another guitarist to accommodate their new rock-focused repertoire; McCartney recommended his school friend George Harrison.[44] Harrison first saw the group perform on 6 February 1958 at Wilson Hall, where McCartney introduced him to Lennon.[45][44] Harrison subsequently auditioned for The Quarrymen in March at Rory Storm's Morgue Skiffle Club, playing "Guitar Boogie Shuffle".[46][47] Lennon thought Harrison (having just turned 15) was too young to join the band, so McCartney engineered another meeting on the upper deck of a Liverpool bus, where Harrison played "Raunchy" for Lennon.[48][49] After McCartney's constant advocacy, Lennon allowed Harrison to join the Quarrymen as lead guitarist.[50][48][51] Harrison's entry into the Quarrymen shifted the group even more away from skiffle, in addition to ending Lennon's use of banjo chords.[52] Around this time, John Duff Lowe, another school friend of McCartney, joined the group on piano.[53]

With Harrison's entry, the Quarrymen now had four guitarists. Lennon and McCartney suggested to Griffiths that he instead buy a bass guitar, but Griffiths refused because of the expense.[54] The two subsequently convinced Nigel Walley, still acting as the group's manager, to fire Griffiths.[55] Walley regretted the incident, and as a result gradually severed his ties with the Quarrymen.[56] Around this same time, Len Garry contracted tubercular meningitis, and spent seven months in the hospital, never playing with the group again.[57] This left Colin Hanton as the last of the group of Lennon's Quarry Bank classmates that originally comprised the group. In March, McCartney bought an Elpico amplifier with two inputs, and he and Harrison added pickups to their guitars, giving the Quarrymen an electric sound for the first time.[58]

 
"In Spite of All the Danger", the only copy of the shellac acetate containing the only two songs professionally recorded by the Quarrymen

Percy Phillips operated a studio called Phillips' Sound Recording Services at 38 Kensington, Liverpool, between the kitchen and a front room that served as an electrical goods shop.[59] Actors from the Liverpool Playhouse often stayed in the room above the studio, and were asked by Phillips to record monologues and poems. Phillips had just turned 60 years old when Harrison heard about the studio from guitarist Johnny Byrne of the Raving Texans, who had recorded a version of "Butterfly" there on 22 June 1957.[59] The Quarrymen booked a recording session on 12 July 1958.[60] They recorded straight to disc, as tape would have been an extra expense. The sound was recorded live by a single microphone in the centre of the room, and Lennon suggested that Hanton put a scarf over the snare drum to lower the volume.[61] They first recorded a McCartney original (credited as McCartney/Harrison) followed by Buddy Holly's "That'll Be the Day". Both feature Lennon on lead vocals.[62] When the recording was finished, Phillips handed the group a fragile 78rpm record, which was passed around the band for one week each, or lent out to friends. It was later lost until Lowe rediscovered it in 1981, and sold it to McCartney for an undisclosed amount.[61] The recordings would later be issued on the Beatles' rarities album Anthology 1.

"The rhythm's in the guitars"

Soon after the recording session, Hanton had a fight with the rest of the group and quit.[63] Lowe too lost contact with the group after leaving Liverpool Institute, leaving the Quarrymen as just a trio of guitarists: Lennon, McCartney, and Harrison.[63] Lennon's mother was killed in a road accident on 15 July 1958, dealing him a devastating emotional blow.[64] The group remained mostly inactive throughout the summer, as Lennon took up a job in a restaurant at the Liverpool Airport.[65] McCartney and Harrison, meanwhile, went on holiday hitchhiking in Wales, playing with a local skiffle group called the Vikings.[66] Although Lennon, McCartney, and Harrison remained extremely close, the trio only performed a handful of times in the last months of 1958.[67] When asked why they had neither a drummer or a bass player, they would respond "The rhythm's in the guitars."[68]

 
The Liverpool Empire Theatre, where Johnny and the Moondogs auditioned for Carrol Levis

In the autumn of 1958, the group had another chance to audition for Carroll Levis, nearly a year and a half after the Quarrymen's first Star Search.[68] For the audition, the group changed their name to Johnny and the Moondogs.[69] Lennon was without a guitar, his having broken recently.[69] Johnny and the Moondogs passed the first heat of the competition in Liverpool, and were invited to appear in the finals in Manchester.[69] The group performed Buddy Holly's "Think It Over" to positive reception, but were unable to stay until the end of the competition to receive the results.[70] As they were leaving, Lennon saw a cutaway electric guitar by the stage door, picked it up and walked off with it, later saying that the trip "wasn't a total loss."[71][72]

Following their Star Search audition, Johnny and the Moondogs changed their name to Japage 3 (combining letters from each of the member's names: John, Paul, and George).[73] Lennon had a friend from art school, named Derek Hodkin, who owned a tape recorder, and Lennon convinced him to record the group (along with McCartney's brother Mike on drums).[74] The group then asked Hodkin to act as their manager, and he agreed.[75] Despite Hodkin's management, bookings for the group dried up.[76] Harrison began a stint as rhythm guitarist in the Les Stewart Quartet, who had a weekly club engagement.[77] By May, Japage 3 was defunct, although the three continued to see each other socially, and Lennon and McCartney continued to write songs together.[78]

The Casbah Club and name change to the Beatles

 
McCartney and Lennon playing on the opening night of The Casbah Coffee Club.

In the summer of 1959, Mona Best decided to open a club in her cellar, and offered the Les Stewart Quartet a residency if they would help convert the cellar.[79] Harrison and fellow Quartet guitarist Ken Brown, however, missed a show, causing Les Stewart to fire the two and drop the residency.[80] This caused distress to Best, but Harrison offered a solution: he recruited Lennon and McCartney to play, and they returned to calling themselves the Quarrymen.[81] After helping Best finish converting the cellar, the new four guitarist line-up of the Quarrymen (Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, and Brown) opened the Casbah Coffee Club on 29 August 1959.[82] The opening night performance was attended by about 300 local teenagers, but as the cellar had no air conditioning and people were dancing, the temperature rose until it became hard to breathe.[83] The Quarrymen were afforded the use of Brown's three input amplifier (which, along with McCartney's Elpico, meant that all four guitarists were electric),[84] and sang through one microphone connected to the club's small PA system.[85]

The group continued their Casbah residency into the new year, occasionally securing other gigs. In January, Brown grew ill and was unable to play the show. Best, however, insisted that the Quarrymen still pay Brown, but Lennon, McCartney, and Harrison refused; the incident resulted in the loss of their residency at the Casbah and Brown's departure from the group.[86] Shortly after, however, Lennon convinced fellow art school student Stuart Sutcliffe to purchase a bass guitar and join the group.[87] The group had no bookings, but began rehearsing vigorously to allow the musical novice Sutcliffe practice on his new instrument.[88]

In early 1960, the Quarrymen returned to Phillips' Sound Recording Services to record Lennon's new original song "One After 909", although this recording does not survive.[89] Around the same time, the three made a rehearsal tape at McCartney's home. Harrison was absent (as he had an apprenticeship), and the tape features several jams and original songs, including the McCartney instrumental "Cayenne".[90] With few gigs during this period the group often wrote letters to secure bookings, several of which survive.[91] The four disliked the Quarrymen name, and went through several others during this period, including Los Paranoias.[92] By March 1960, Lennon and Sutcliffe came up with a new name: the Beatles.[93] The Beatles (after several line-up changes, including adding Mona's son Pete Best on drums) continued to perform around Liverpool and in Hamburg, Germany, before being signed to Parlophone Records in 1962.

Reformations: 1994 to present

Since the break-up of the Beatles in 1970 and the death of John Lennon in 1980, members of the Quarrymen have reunited several times. From 1994 to 1995, Rod Davis and John Lowe recorded an album with studio musicians. This album, Open for Engagements, was released in 1995 under the Quarrymen name.[94][95]

The surviving members of the 1957 line-up of the Quarrymen reunited in 1997 for the 40th anniversary of their performance at the 1957 Woolton village fete, which was the location of the first meeting of Lennon and McCartney. All five surviving members from that day, Pete Shotton, Rod Davis, Len Garry, Eric Griffiths and Colin Hanton, performed. Following this, the group continued to perform, undertaking tours of the UK, the US, Germany, Japan, Russia, Cuba and other countries. The group's repertoire focuses on the skiffle and early rock and roll they played in their original incarnation with the added roots rock historical perspective of illustrating how American roots music inspired the nascent Beatles.

In 2000, producer and the Beatles' historian Martin Lewis produced the group performing the Del-Vikings song "Come Go with Me" (the first song McCartney recalled hearing Lennon sing on the first day they met) for use on the soundtrack of the Michael Lindsay-Hogg film Two of Us, a film about the last day that Lennon and McCartney saw each other in April 1976.

Eric Griffiths died in 2005, and Pete Shotton retired, owing to ill-health. Shotton died in 2017. As of 2016, Davis, Garry, and Hanton continue to perform around the world. Lowe occasionally performs with them.[96] In September and October 2010, the band undertook a US tour celebrating the 70th birthday of their founder, Lennon. They appeared in a charity concert for Amnesty International honouring Lennon in New York City on Lennon's birthday, Saturday 9 October 2010.[97] Since 2016, former Beatles bassist Chas Newby has been performing with the band.[98]

Since their 1997 reformation, the Quarrymen have recorded three albums, consisting mostly of covers of 1950s rock and skiffle.

Members

Current members[99][100]
  • Colin Hanton – drums (1956–59, 1997–present)
  • Rod Davis – banjo (1957); guitar, vocals (1994–95, 1997–present)
  • Len Garry – tea-chest bass (1957–58); vocals, guitar (1997–present)
  • John Duff Lowe – piano (1958); keyboards (1994–95; since 2005, has been a regular guest, although not a constant member), vocals (1994–95)
  • Chas Newby – bass guitar (2016–present; Newby also played bass with the Beatles briefly from 1960 to 1961)[98]
Former members[99][100]

Timeline

Discography

Studio albums
  • Open for Engagements (1994) (Kewbank Records KBCD111) (John 'Duff' Lowe & Rod Davis)
  • Get Back – Together (1997) (Q Records QMCD 7011) (Eric Griffiths, Len Garry, Rod Davis, Pete Shotton & Colin Hanton)
  • Songs We Remember (2004) (BMG Augusta Records AUCK15001) (Eric Griffiths, Len Garry, Rod Davis & Colin Hanton)
  • Grey Album (2012) (Generate Records 885767482517) (Len Garry, Rod Davis & Colin Hanton)
Live albums
  • Live At The Halfmoon Pub Putney (2005) (Colin Hanton, Len Garry, Rod Davis & John 'Duff' Lowe)
  • The Quarrymen Live! In Penny Lane (2020) (Colin Hanton, Len Garry, Rod Davis & Chas Newby)
DVD
  • The Band That Started The Beatles (2009) (Star-Club Records GRDVD091) (Len Garry, Rod Davis & Colin Hanton)
Other recordings
  • "That'll Be the Day" and "In Spite of All the Danger" (both recorded in 1958) are available on the Beatles album Anthology 1 (1995).
  • A number of home rehearsals featuring Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, and Sutcliffe were recorded in early 1960. Three of these were released on Anthology 1, while others have appeared on various bootlegs.
  • A 2000 recording of "Come Go With Me" was featured in the film Two of Us.

Notes

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References

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The Quarrymen also written as the Quarry Men are a British skiffle rock and roll group formed by John Lennon in Liverpool in 1956 2 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 of their school the Quarry Bank High School Lennon s mother Julia taught her son to play the banjo showed Lennon and Eric Griffiths how to tune their guitars in a similar way to the banjo and taught them simple chords and songs The QuarrymenThe Quarrymen performing in Rosebery Street Liverpool on 22 June 1957 1 Left to right Hanton Griffiths Lennon Garry Shotton and Davis Background informationAlso known asThe BlackjacksJapage 3Johnny and the MoondogsOriginLiverpool EnglandGenresSkiffle rock and rollYears active1956 1956 1960 1960 1994 1994 presentLabelsGriffinQuarrymen RecordsSony BMGSpinoffsThe BeatlesMembersRod Davis Len Garry Colin Hanton John Duff Lowe Chas NewbyPast membersJohn Lennon Paul McCartney George Harrison Stuart Sutcliffe Eric Griffiths Pete Shotton Bill Smith Ivan Vaughan Nigel Walley Ken BrownWebsiteoriginalquarrymen wbr co wbr ukLennon founded a skiffle group that was briefly called the Blackjacks but they changed the name before any public performances Some accounts credit Lennon with choosing the new name other accounts credit his close friend Pete Shotton with suggesting the name The Quarrymen played at parties school dances cinemas and amateur skiffle contests before Paul McCartney joined in October 1957 George Harrison joined in early 1958 at McCartney s recommendation though Lennon initially resisted because he felt Harrison 14 when he was introduced to Lennon was too young McCartney and Harrison attended the Liverpool Institute The group made an amateur recording in 1958 performing Buddy Holly s That ll Be the Day and In Spite of All the Danger a song written by McCartney and Harrison The group moved towards rock and roll causing several of the original members to leave This left Lennon McCartney and Harrison who performed under several other names including Johnny and the Moondogs and Japage 3 before returning to the Quarrymen name in 1959 In 1960 the group changed their name to The Beatles chosen for its double meaning The name was conceived of late at night by Lennon and Stuart Sutcliffe by then the group s fourth member and introduced to the other two the next day They were initially booked as The Silver Beetles by local clubs who saw it as a more sellable name than The Beatles citation needed and went on to be the best selling music act of all time In 1997 the four surviving original members of the Quarrymen reunited to perform at the 40th anniversary celebrations of the garden fete performance at which Lennon and McCartney met for the first time Since 1998 they have performed in countries outside the UK and released four albums Three original members still perform as the Quarrymen Contents 1 History 1 1 Formation and early performances 1 2 Paul McCartney joins the group 1 3 George Harrison s entry and recording 1 4 The rhythm s in the guitars 1 5 The Casbah Club and name change to the Beatles 1 6 Reformations 1994 to present 2 Members 2 1 Timeline 3 Discography 4 Notes 5 References 6 External linksHistory EditFormation and early performances Edit In the mid 1950s there was a revival in the United Kingdom of the musical form skiffle that had originated in the United States and had been popular in the US in the 1920s 30s and 40s In addition to its popularity among British teenagers as music to listen to it also spawned a craze of teenage boys starting their own groups to perform the music One of the primary attractions was that it did not require great musical skills or expensive instruments to be played 3 Early British skiffle was played by traditional jazz musicians with the most successful British proponent of the genre in the 1950s being Lonnie Donegan 4 The Quarrymen s initial repertoire included several songs that Donegan had recorded 5 When Lennon wanted to try making music himself he and fellow Quarry Bank school friend Griffiths took guitar lessons in Hunt s Cross Liverpool although Lennon gave up the lessons soon after as they were based on theory and not actual playing 6 As Griffiths already knew how to play the banjo Lennon s mother showed them how to tune the top four strings of their guitars to the same notes as a banjo and taught them the chords of D C and D7 as well as the Fats Domino song Ain t That a Shame 6 7 They practised at Lennon s aunt s house called Mendips at 251 Menlove Avenue where Lennon lived or at Griffiths house in Halewood Drive 8 They learned how to play Rock Island Line Jump Down Turn Around Pick a Bale of Cotton Alabamy Bound and Cumberland Gap and later learned how to play That s All Right and Mean Woman Blues 9 8 Lennon and Griffiths decided to form a skiffle group in November 1956 10 This initial line up consisted of Lennon and Griffiths on guitars Pete Shotton on washboard and school friend Bill Smith on tea chest bass 11 12 The group initially called the Blackjacks quickly changed their name to the Quarrymen Both Lennon and Shotton have been credited with coining the name Quarrymen after a line in their school s song Quarrymen old before our birth Straining each muscle and sinew The choice of name was tongue in cheek as Lennon regarded the reference in the school song to straining each muscle and sinew as risible 5 13 Smith s tenure in the band was extremely short and he was replaced in quick succession by Nigel Walley Ivan Vaughan and Len Garry throughout late 1956 and early 1957 14 Also during this period drummer Colin Hanton and banjo player Rod Davis joined the group 14 This group of Lennon Griffiths Shotton Garry Hanton and Davis formed the first stable line up of the group The Quarrymen s instruments The group first rehearsed in Shotton s house on Vale Road but because of the noise his mother told them to use the corrugated air raid shelter in the back garden 15 Rehearsals were moved from the cold air raid shelter to Hanton s or Griffiths house as Griffiths father had died in WWII and his mother worked all day 16 The band also often visited Lennon s mother at 1 Blomfield Road listening to her collection of rock and roll records by Elvis Shirley and Lee s Let the Good Times Roll and Gene Vincent s Be Bop A Lula which they added to their repertoire 17 After his tenure on tea chest bass Walley became the group s manager He sent flyers to local theatres and ballrooms and put up posters designed by Lennon Country and western rock n roll skiffle band The Quarrymen Open for Engagements Please Call Nigel Walley Tel Gateacre 1715 16 Walley managed to secure the group several paid engagements throughout the spring of 1957 including one at The Cavern Club 18 A jazz club at the time the Cavern tolerated skiffle as it was considered an offshoot of jazz 19 Lennon however began leading the band in several rock and roll numbers prompting the club s manager to send up a note ordering the group to cut out the bloody rock 20 In July 1957 Canadian impresario Carroll Levis held a talent contest in Liverpool the winners of which would appear on the television series Star Search 21 The Quarrymen played Worried Man Blues and were loudly applauded but a group from Wales called the Sunnyside Skiffle Group jumped all over the stage and outshone the static Quarrymen and were asked by Levis to fill in the last few minutes of the contest with a second song 22 Lennon argued heatedly with Levis backstage saying the Sunnyside Skiffle Group had brought a bus full of supporters with them and were given the upper hand advantage by Levis 22 After the competition Levis used a clap o meter a machine to measure the decibels of the audience s reaction to the groups as they were asked to walk back out onto the stage The Quarrymen and the Sunnyside Skiffle Group tied by both reaching ninety on the meter but after a second test the Quarrymen lost by a small margin 23 Paul McCartney joins the group Edit The photograph of the Quarrymen playing at St Peter s Church garden fete where Lennon and McCartney first met From left to right Griffiths Hanton Davis Lennon Shotton Garry On 6 July 1957 The Quarrymen played at the St Peter s Church Rose Queen garden fete in Woolton They first played on the back of a moving flatbed lorry in a procession of floats that carried the Rose Queen and retiring Rose Queen Morris dancers Boy Scouts Brownies Girl Guides and Cubs led by the Band of the Cheshire Yeomanry 24 At 4 15 they played on a permanent stage in the field behind the church 25 before a display by the City of Liverpool Police Dogs 26 27 They were playing Come Go with Me when Paul McCartney arrived and in the Scout hut after the set Ivan Vaughan introduced McCartney to Lennon who chatted for a few minutes before the band set up in the church hall for their performance at that evening s Grand Dance 28 29 McCartney demonstrated how he tuned his guitar and then sang Eddie Cochran s Twenty Flight Rock Gene Vincent s Be Bop A Lula and a medley of Little Richard songs 26 30 Vaughan and McCartney left before the evening show which started at 8 o clock 31 During the performance there was an unexpected thunderstorm which made the lights go out 32 Bob Molyneux a young schoolmate from Quarry Bank recorded part of the performance on his Grundig TK8 portable reel to reel tape recorder The tape included versions of Lonnie Donegan s Puttin on the Style and Elvis Baby Let s Play House In 1963 Molyneux offered the tape to Lennon via Ringo Starr but Lennon never responded so Molyneux put the tape in a vault 3 33 As they were walking home after the evening performance Lennon and Shotton discussed the afternoon encounter with McCartney and Lennon said that perhaps they should invite McCartney to join the band Two weeks later Shotton encountered McCartney cycling through Woolton and conveyed Lennon s casual invitation for him to join the Quarrymen and Vaughan also invited McCartney to join 26 McCartney said he would join after Scout camp in Hathersage Derbyshire and a holiday with his family at Butlins holiday camp in Filey North Yorkshire 34 35 Shotton and Davis both left the Quarrymen in August feeling that the group was moving away from skiffle and towards rock leaving their instruments superfluous 36 35 When McCartney returned from holiday he began rehearsing with the Quarrymen playing songs such as Bye Bye Love The Everly Brothers and All Shook Up which Lennon and the group had been trying to learn without success 37 McCartney made his debut with the band on 18 October 1957 at a Conservative Club social held at the New Clubmoor Hall in the Norris Green section of Liverpool 38 34 Lennon and McCartney wore cream coloured sports jackets which were paid for by the whole group Walley collected half a crown per week from each member until they were paid for and the others wore white shirts with tassels and black bootlace ties 38 To the irritation of the other group members McCartney endlessly practised the lead guitar intro to Raunchy The Quarrymen continued to play sparse gigs throughout the autumn of 1957 mostly for local promoter Charlie McBain 39 During this period the group almost entirely excised skiffle from their repertoire focusing on covers of songs by rock and roll singers such as Elvis Presley Carl Perkins Little Richard and Larry Williams and the Quarrymen s sound increasingly relied on harmony singing between Lennon and McCartney 40 An extremely important influence for them at the time was Buddy Holly and his group the Crickets 41 Around this time Lennon and McCartney both started writing songs influenced by Holly Lennon s Hello Little Girl and McCartney s I Lost My Little Girl and both were impressed with each other s efforts 42 The two young men began writing together 43 George Harrison s entry and recording Edit After McCartney s poor performance on lead guitar at the Conservative Club the group needed another guitarist to accommodate their new rock focused repertoire McCartney recommended his school friend George Harrison 44 Harrison first saw the group perform on 6 February 1958 at Wilson Hall where McCartney introduced him to Lennon 45 44 Harrison subsequently auditioned for The Quarrymen in March at Rory Storm s Morgue Skiffle Club playing Guitar Boogie Shuffle 46 47 Lennon thought Harrison having just turned 15 was too young to join the band so McCartney engineered another meeting on the upper deck of a Liverpool bus where Harrison played Raunchy for Lennon 48 49 After McCartney s constant advocacy Lennon allowed Harrison to join the Quarrymen as lead guitarist 50 48 51 Harrison s entry into the Quarrymen shifted the group even more away from skiffle in addition to ending Lennon s use of banjo chords 52 Around this time John Duff Lowe another school friend of McCartney joined the group on piano 53 With Harrison s entry the Quarrymen now had four guitarists Lennon and McCartney suggested to Griffiths that he instead buy a bass guitar but Griffiths refused because of the expense 54 The two subsequently convinced Nigel Walley still acting as the group s manager to fire Griffiths 55 Walley regretted the incident and as a result gradually severed his ties with the Quarrymen 56 Around this same time Len Garry contracted tubercular meningitis and spent seven months in the hospital never playing with the group again 57 This left Colin Hanton as the last of the group of Lennon s Quarry Bank classmates that originally comprised the group In March McCartney bought an Elpico amplifier with two inputs and he and Harrison added pickups to their guitars giving the Quarrymen an electric sound for the first time 58 In Spite of All the Danger the only copy of the shellac acetate containing the only two songs professionally recorded by the Quarrymen Percy Phillips operated a studio called Phillips Sound Recording Services at 38 Kensington Liverpool between the kitchen and a front room that served as an electrical goods shop 59 Actors from the Liverpool Playhouse often stayed in the room above the studio and were asked by Phillips to record monologues and poems Phillips had just turned 60 years old when Harrison heard about the studio from guitarist Johnny Byrne of the Raving Texans who had recorded a version of Butterfly there on 22 June 1957 59 The Quarrymen booked a recording session on 12 July 1958 60 They recorded straight to disc as tape would have been an extra expense The sound was recorded live by a single microphone in the centre of the room and Lennon suggested that Hanton put a scarf over the snare drum to lower the volume 61 They first recorded a McCartney original credited as McCartney Harrison followed by Buddy Holly s That ll Be the Day Both feature Lennon on lead vocals 62 When the recording was finished Phillips handed the group a fragile 78rpm record which was passed around the band for one week each or lent out to friends It was later lost until Lowe rediscovered it in 1981 and sold it to McCartney for an undisclosed amount 61 The recordings would later be issued on the Beatles rarities album Anthology 1 The rhythm s in the guitars Edit Soon after the recording session Hanton had a fight with the rest of the group and quit 63 Lowe too lost contact with the group after leaving Liverpool Institute leaving the Quarrymen as just a trio of guitarists Lennon McCartney and Harrison 63 Lennon s mother was killed in a road accident on 15 July 1958 dealing him a devastating emotional blow 64 The group remained mostly inactive throughout the summer as Lennon took up a job in a restaurant at the Liverpool Airport 65 McCartney and Harrison meanwhile went on holiday hitchhiking in Wales playing with a local skiffle group called the Vikings 66 Although Lennon McCartney and Harrison remained extremely close the trio only performed a handful of times in the last months of 1958 67 When asked why they had neither a drummer or a bass player they would respond The rhythm s in the guitars 68 The Liverpool Empire Theatre where Johnny and the Moondogs auditioned for Carrol Levis In the autumn of 1958 the group had another chance to audition for Carroll Levis nearly a year and a half after the Quarrymen s first Star Search 68 For the audition the group changed their name to Johnny and the Moondogs 69 Lennon was without a guitar his having broken recently 69 Johnny and the Moondogs passed the first heat of the competition in Liverpool and were invited to appear in the finals in Manchester 69 The group performed Buddy Holly s Think It Over to positive reception but were unable to stay until the end of the competition to receive the results 70 As they were leaving Lennon saw a cutaway electric guitar by the stage door picked it up and walked off with it later saying that the trip wasn t a total loss 71 72 Following their Star Search audition Johnny and the Moondogs changed their name to Japage 3 combining letters from each of the member s names John Paul and George 73 Lennon had a friend from art school named Derek Hodkin who owned a tape recorder and Lennon convinced him to record the group along with McCartney s brother Mike on drums 74 The group then asked Hodkin to act as their manager and he agreed 75 Despite Hodkin s management bookings for the group dried up 76 Harrison began a stint as rhythm guitarist in the Les Stewart Quartet who had a weekly club engagement 77 By May Japage 3 was defunct although the three continued to see each other socially and Lennon and McCartney continued to write songs together 78 The Casbah Club and name change to the Beatles Edit McCartney and Lennon playing on the opening night of The Casbah Coffee Club In the summer of 1959 Mona Best decided to open a club in her cellar and offered the Les Stewart Quartet a residency if they would help convert the cellar 79 Harrison and fellow Quartet guitarist Ken Brown however missed a show causing Les Stewart to fire the two and drop the residency 80 This caused distress to Best but Harrison offered a solution he recruited Lennon and McCartney to play and they returned to calling themselves the Quarrymen 81 After helping Best finish converting the cellar the new four guitarist line up of the Quarrymen Lennon McCartney Harrison and Brown opened the Casbah Coffee Club on 29 August 1959 82 The opening night performance was attended by about 300 local teenagers but as the cellar had no air conditioning and people were dancing the temperature rose until it became hard to breathe 83 The Quarrymen were afforded the use of Brown s three input amplifier which along with McCartney s Elpico meant that all four guitarists were electric 84 and sang through one microphone connected to the club s small PA system 85 The group continued their Casbah residency into the new year occasionally securing other gigs In January Brown grew ill and was unable to play the show Best however insisted that the Quarrymen still pay Brown but Lennon McCartney and Harrison refused the incident resulted in the loss of their residency at the Casbah and Brown s departure from the group 86 Shortly after however Lennon convinced fellow art school student Stuart Sutcliffe to purchase a bass guitar and join the group 87 The group had no bookings but began rehearsing vigorously to allow the musical novice Sutcliffe practice on his new instrument 88 In early 1960 the Quarrymen returned to Phillips Sound Recording Services to record Lennon s new original song One After 909 although this recording does not survive 89 Around the same time the three made a rehearsal tape at McCartney s home Harrison was absent as he had an apprenticeship and the tape features several jams and original songs including the McCartney instrumental Cayenne 90 With few gigs during this period the group often wrote letters to secure bookings several of which survive 91 The four disliked the Quarrymen name and went through several others during this period including Los Paranoias 92 By March 1960 Lennon and Sutcliffe came up with a new name the Beatles 93 The Beatles after several line up changes including adding Mona s son Pete Best on drums continued to perform around Liverpool and in Hamburg Germany before being signed to Parlophone Records in 1962 Reformations 1994 to present Edit Since the break up of the Beatles in 1970 and the death of John Lennon in 1980 members of the Quarrymen have reunited several times From 1994 to 1995 Rod Davis and John Lowe recorded an album with studio musicians This album Open for Engagements was released in 1995 under the Quarrymen name 94 95 The surviving members of the 1957 line up of the Quarrymen reunited in 1997 for the 40th anniversary of their performance at the 1957 Woolton village fete which was the location of the first meeting of Lennon and McCartney All five surviving members from that day Pete Shotton Rod Davis Len Garry Eric Griffiths and Colin Hanton performed Following this the group continued to perform undertaking tours of the UK the US Germany Japan Russia Cuba and other countries The group s repertoire focuses on the skiffle and early rock and roll they played in their original incarnation with the added roots rock historical perspective of illustrating how American roots music inspired the nascent Beatles In 2000 producer and the Beatles historian Martin Lewis produced the group performing the Del Vikings song Come Go with Me the first song McCartney recalled hearing Lennon sing on the first day they met for use on the soundtrack of the Michael Lindsay Hogg film Two of Us a film about the last day that Lennon and McCartney saw each other in April 1976 Eric Griffiths died in 2005 and Pete Shotton retired owing to ill health Shotton died in 2017 As of 2016 Davis Garry and Hanton continue to perform around the world Lowe occasionally performs with them 96 In September and October 2010 the band undertook a US tour celebrating the 70th birthday of their founder Lennon They appeared in a charity concert for Amnesty International honouring Lennon in New York City on Lennon s birthday Saturday 9 October 2010 97 Since 2016 former Beatles bassist Chas Newby has been performing with the band 98 Since their 1997 reformation the Quarrymen have recorded three albums consisting mostly of covers of 1950s rock and skiffle Members EditCurrent members 99 100 Colin Hanton drums 1956 59 1997 present Rod Davis banjo 1957 guitar vocals 1994 95 1997 present Len Garry tea chest bass 1957 58 vocals guitar 1997 present John Duff Lowe piano 1958 keyboards 1994 95 since 2005 has been a regular guest although not a constant member vocals 1994 95 Chas Newby bass guitar 2016 present Newby also played bass with the Beatles briefly from 1960 to 1961 98 Former members 99 100 John Lennon vocals guitar 1956 60 died 1980 Eric Griffiths guitar 1956 58 1997 2005 died 2005 Pete Shotton washboard 1956 57 1997 2000 died 2017 Bill Smith tea chest bass 1956 Nigel Walley tea chest bass 1956 Subsequently became manager 1956 58 Ivan Vaughan tea chest bass 1956 57 died 1993 Paul McCartney vocals guitar 1957 60 George Harrison guitar vocals 1958 60 died 2001 Ken Brown guitar 1959 60 died 2010 Stuart Sutcliffe bass guitar 1960 died 1962 Timeline EditDiscography EditStudio albumsOpen for Engagements 1994 Kewbank Records KBCD111 John Duff Lowe amp Rod Davis Get Back Together 1997 Q Records QMCD 7011 Eric Griffiths Len Garry Rod Davis Pete Shotton amp Colin Hanton Songs We Remember 2004 BMG Augusta Records AUCK15001 Eric Griffiths Len Garry Rod Davis amp Colin Hanton Grey Album 2012 Generate Records 885767482517 Len Garry Rod Davis amp Colin Hanton Live albumsLive At The Halfmoon Pub Putney 2005 Colin Hanton Len Garry Rod Davis amp John Duff Lowe The Quarrymen Live In Penny Lane 2020 Colin Hanton Len Garry Rod Davis amp Chas Newby DVDThe Band That Started The Beatles 2009 Star Club Records GRDVD091 Len Garry Rod Davis amp Colin Hanton Other recordings That ll Be the Day and In Spite of All the Danger both recorded in 1958 are available on the Beatles album Anthology 1 1995 A number of home rehearsals featuring Lennon McCartney Harrison and Sutcliffe were recorded in early 1960 Three of these were released on Anthology 1 while others have appeared on various bootlegs A 2000 recording of Come Go With Me was featured in the film Two of Us Notes Edit The Quarrymen s first public performance on 22nd June 1957 Originalquarrymen co uk Retrieved 24 March 2017 Biographies Originalquarrymen co uk Retrieved 24 March 2017 a b Atkinson Malcolm The Quarry Men s First Recordings Abbeyrd s Beatle Page Archived from the original on 11 May 2008 Retrieved 29 June 2008 Skiffle king Donegan dies BBC 4 November 2002 Retrieved 29 June 2008 a b Spitz 2005 p 52 a b Spitz 2005 p 48 The Beatles Anthology DVD 2003 Episode 1 0 14 29 Lennon talking about his mother teaching him Ain t That a Shame a b Spitz 2005 p 49 The Beatles Anthology DVD 2003 Episode 1 0 12 39 Harrison talking about Lonnie Donegan and the influence of Rock Island Line Lewisohn 2013 p 103 Spitz 2005 p 50 Lewisohn 2013 p 104 Myth Busting The Original Quarrymen Retrieved 17 October 2010 a b Lewisohn 2013 p 105 109 Spitz 2005 p 51 a b Spitz 2005 p 54 Spitz 2005 p 55 Lewisohn 2013 p 108 109 Spitz 2005 p 65 Lewisohn 2013 p 109 Lewisohn 2013 p 124 a b Spitz 2005 p 57 Spitz 2005 p 58 Miles 1997 p 25 Myth 12 Original Quarrymen Retrieved 27 May 2011 a b c Miles 1997 p 26 Spitz 2005 pp 93 94 The Beatles Anthology DVD 2003 Episode 1 0 21 56 Lennon talking 3 gt about meeting McCartney Spitz 2005 p 95 Spitz 2005 p 96 Spitz 2005 p 97 O Donnell Jim The Day John Met Paul Beatles News Wire Retrieved 29 June 2008 Kozinn Allan 21 July 1994 John Lennon s First Known Recording Is for Sale New York Times Retrieved 29 June 2008 a b Miles 1997 p 29 a b Spitz 2005 p 99 Lewisohn 2013 p 138 Spitz 2005 p 102 a b Spitz 2005 p 108 Lewisohn 2013 p 151 Lewisohn 2013 p 145 147 Lewisohn 2013 p 146 147 Lewisohn 2013 p 153 Spitz 2005 p 130 a b Lewisohn 2013 p 157 Spitz 2005 p 125 Spitz 2005 p 126 Harry Bill While My Guitar Gently Weeps The Tragic Story of Rory Storm amp the Hurricanes page 2 Bill Harry Retrieved 27 February 2008 a b Miles 1997 p 47 Spitz 2005 p 127 The Beatles Anthology DVD 2003 Episode 1 0 21 56 McCartney talking about Harrison being in the band Spitz 2005 pp 126 127 Lewisohn 2013 p 158 161 Lewisohn 2013 p 160 161 Lewisohn 2013 p 163 Lewisohn 2013 p 163 164 Lewisohn 2013 p 164 Spitz 2005 p 128 Lewisohn 2013 p 163 171 a b Spitz 2005 p 141 Spitz 2005 p 142 a b Spitz 2005 p 143 Lewisohn 2013 p 178 a b Lewisohn 2013 p 179 Miles 1997 p 50 Lewisohn 2013 p 184 Lewisohn 2013 p 187 188 Lewisohn 2013 p 193 195 a b Lewisohn 2013 p 195 a b c Lewisohn 2013 p 196 Lewisohn 2013 p 197 The Beatles Anthology DVD 2003 Episode 1 0 27 11 McCartney talking about Lennon stealing a guitar Spitz 2005 pp 170 171 Lewisohn 2013 p 201 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The British Are Coming The British Are Coming The U S A is invaded by a wave of long haired English rockers audio Pop Chronicles University of North Texas Libraries Harry Bill 1992 The Ultimate Beatles Encyclopedia Virgin Books ISBN 978 0 86369 681 7 Lennon Cynthia 2005 John Hodder amp Stoughton ISBN 978 0 340 89512 2 Lewisohn Mark 2013 The Beatles All These Years Vol 1 Tune In Crown Archetype ISBN 978 1 4000 8305 3 Miles Barry 1997 Many Years From Now Vintage Random House ISBN 978 0 7493 8658 0 O Brien Ray 2005 There are Places I ll Remember The Venues Where The Beatles Played on Merseyside The Bluecoat Press ISBN 978 1 904438 28 1 Spitz Bob 2005 The Beatles The Biography Little Brown and Company New York ISBN 978 0 316 80352 6 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to The Quarrymen The Quarrymen official website List of concerts Archived 8 April 2008 at the Wayback Machine Catherine E Doyle From Blackjacks to Beatles How the Fab Four Evolved The Quarrymen s First 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