On the anniversary of John Lennon meeting Paul McCartney, a look at iconic dates in rock ‘n’ roll history
Rock ‘n’ roll will never die. Today’s most listened to radio stations are dominated by songs made on computers with vocal tracks touched up by autotune. But throughout history, rock ‘n’ roll has been a constant, chronicling the country’s most joyous and turbulent events. On some days in history, rock ‘n’ roll is the story.
One of those days is July 6, 1957, when John Lennon first met Paul McCartney. At the time, Lennon was singing and playing guitar in The Quarrymen — a very early carnation of what would eventually become The Beatles.
For the brief time they were talking, McCartney showed Lennon, 16, a certain way to tune a guitar and covered a handful of Little Richard tunes. McCartney left the grounds before the Quarrymen hit the stage, but two weeks later he was formally invited to join the band.
In the five years that followed, George Harrison and Pete Best joined the Quarrymen, as Lennon and McCartney began to focus on more electric guitar playing rather than acoustic and banjo before changing their name to The Beatles.
In 1962 the band signed to Parlophone Records, and the rest is history.
By; Nicholas Parco
Source: NY Daily News
