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The Beatles

By TheBeatlesAHS

  • The beggining

    John Lennon forms The Quarry Men and the band performs what's known in England as "skiffle"

  • John Lennon forms The Quarry Men and the band performs what's known in England as "skiffle"

  • The Quarry Men performs at St. Peter's Church Garden Fete

    John and Paul meet and the pair find out that they have similar pop idol intrests:"Paul, what kind of music do you like?" asked John. " Well I used to like Lonnie Donnegan but that skiffle is fading out. I love the music of Elvis Presley, Eddie Conchrane, Gene Vincent, Little Richard..." "Hey," John interrupted, "they're all the people I'm into."

  • The Quarry Men perform at the Cavern. This would be the only performance billed as The Quarry Men at the club. It would be a long wait, an amazing 3 years before the band would turn up again at the Cavern, but under their new name as The Beatles

  • The Quarry Men now become The Silver Beetles

    The Quarry Men now become The Silver Beetles. Around this time, Allan Williams- club owner of the jacaranda – becomes the group’s part time manager. He arranges with Larry Parnes, an impresario for British pop stars, to audition the Silver Beetles. The band fails the audition as backing group to Billy Fury. Instead, Parnes chooses the band as a backing group for Johnny Gentle. On May 20, Gentle and The Silver Beetles backing group to Billy Fury. Instead, Parnes chooses the band as a backing grou

  • Pete best leaves the band, The BlackJacks, and becomes The Silver Beetles’ drummer. The band’s current line-up would now include John, Paul, George, Pete and Stuart Stutcliffe.

  • New stage name and first performance as “The Beatles” at the Indra club in Hamburg, Germany.

  • The Beatles first night appearance at the Cavern. Then band gets paid a mere $42.00 per night. Gerry Marsden, of Gerry and the Peacemakers, went to their performance and said that they WILL BE the FIRST band OUT of Liverpool to make it.

  • The Beatles begin British tour with Helen Shapiro as the top act on the bill

  • Introducing The Beatles

    After their second album, With The Beatles became only the second album ever to sell a million copies in the UK, Vee Jay Records, predominantly an R&B label, obtained the US rights to most of the songs from Please Please Me, and released them on an album titled Introducing ... The Beatles in January 1964