McCartney Times

Sometimes group dynamics become cemented early on and never budge no matter how much growth or disparate personal wanderings are had. The Beatles were a case in point. While drummer Ringo Starr was a latecomer—knowing the band in the Merseybeat scene and Hamburg live circuit for years but not officially joining til two months ahead of debut single ‘Love Me Do’—the relationship between the remaining Beatles was forged in the days of their Liverpool youth when rock ‘n’ roll and skiffle was the soundtrack of their suburban teen years.John Lennon was already fronting the local group The Quarrymen as an art student when first crossing paths with Paul McCartney in 1957. Enjoying the alluring mystique of the cool, elder authority, Lennon easily wielded the role of leader when The Beatles’ genesis began to materialise, recruiting the young McCartney as rhythm guitarist shortly after.

Read more, click link below…

Source: The main issue in The Beatles, according to George Harrison