McCartney Times

In 1957, John Lennon met a 15-year-old Paul McCartney at St Peter’s Church Hall fete in Woolton, Liverpool. The pair got on like a house on fire, bonding over their shared love for rhythm and blues. After finding chemistry in friendship and musicianship, McCartney was invited to join Lennon’s precursor to The Beatles, The Quarrymen.

In Barry Miles’ 1997 biography Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now, McCartney was quoted remembering how he used to spend hours on end in Lennon’s bedroom, at his aunt Mimi Smith’s house, listening to old-school rock ‘n’ roll records from the likes of Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, and Jerry Lee Lewis. They played and sang along to the tracks, eventually finding the confidence to write a handful of songs themselves. Little did they know then, but the words they laid down in those early jams would help guide them to worldwide fame in the early 1960s.

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