The Quarrymen Make Their Cavern Club Debut. John Lennon first formed the Quarrymen in 1956 with his childhood friend, Pete Shotton. Paul McCartney joined the band a year later, ...

When the Quarrymen manifested, the group maintained Lennon, Griffiths, and Shotton, but added Nigel Walley on tea chest bass to replace Smith, while Colin Hanton would bring drums into the mix.

The Beatles' first-ever recording is one of the most valuable recordings in the world, but Paul McCartney didn't get it back until 20 years after it was made ...

While everyone knows the work of The Beatles, actor Finn Wolfhard says you ought to hear this song by The Quarrymen to understand where it all began.

Paul McCartney, Pete Best, George Harrison and John Lennon. Getty Images “I first met the guys when they opened my mother’s club the Casper in 1958, when they were known as the Quarrymen and ...

By this time, the skiffle group known as The Quarrymen had officially evolved into The Beatles, and Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison were looking for a new drummer to replace Pete Best.

Lennon and his band at the time, the Quarry Men, performed, and McCartney introduced himself afterward. Their meeting was a bit awkward.

The song Paul McCartney used to audition for the Quarrymen was Eddie Cochran’s “Twenty Flight Rock.” Although everyone in the band enjoyed the song, ...

Pete Best, original drummer for the Beatles, was last seen turning the Casbah Coffee Club — his family’s old Liverpool venue, site of many an early Beatles gig dating back to when they were ...