McCartney Times

Paul McCartney was a guitar player first and foremost. Although his first instrument was actually the family piano, it was only after he traded in a birthday gift of a trumpet as a young teenager for a guitar that McCartney started taking music seriously. This period coincided with a few notable events, most importantly the incoming popularity of rock and roll music and his friendship with a young schoolmate named George Harrison.

By the time he was 16, McCartney had met John Lennon and impressed him enough with his guitar skill that he got offered a place in Lennon’s band, The Quarrymen. McCartney subsequently brought in Harrison, and the groundwork for what would eventually become The Beatles was born. By the time they solidified their lineup in Hamburg, Germany, also along for the ride were drummer Pete Best and bassist Stuart Sutcliffe.

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