WHEN LENNON MET MCCARTNEY

55 years ago, on the afternoon of July 6th 1957, a skiffle group called The Quarrymen played in the garden of St Peter’s Church in Liverpool. While setting up their equipment to play, the bass player, Ivan Vaughan, introduced the band to one of his classmates from Liverpool Institute, the 15-year-old Paul McCartney. John Lennon, lead singer and guitarist for the group, was one year older than McCartney. The pair chatted for a few minutes, and McCartney even showed Lennon how to tune a guitar.

About two weeks later McCartney was invited to join the band, which would become The Beatles, and the rest is history.