McCartney Times

Even though they were making major leaps, The Beatles had yet to land an official recording session of their own by 1961. After slogging through marathon sets in Hamburg, Germany, the band encountered a number of friends and peers, including Little Richard, Billy Preston, and Rory Storm, whose drummer, Ringo Starr, would become a close acquaintance and occasional stand-in when Pete Best wasn’t up to standard.Another singer that The Beatles befriended was Tony Sheridan, a fellow Brit who was performing at Bruno Koschmider’s Kaiserkeller Club. The two became well acquainted, and when Sheridan was offered studio time for Polydor Records in June 1961, he brought The Beatles along as his backing band. It would be the first time that the group would ever be recorded in a professional studio.

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