FEBRUARY 6, 1958 – George Harrison joined the Liverpool skiffle group The Quarry Men. It featured John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Len Garry, Eric Griffiths and John Lowe. Over time, they were to become The Beatles. Formed by John Lennon in Liverpool in 1956 with schoolmates, the Quarry Men took their name from a line in the school song of Quarry Bank High School, which they attended. Lennon’s mother Julia taught her son to play the banjo and then showed Lennon and Griffiths how to tune their guitars in a similar way to the banjo, and taught them simple chords and songs.
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
