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Discuss everything about shipping John Lennon and Paul McCartney from the legendary rock band The Beatles.
>Who the fuck are these guys?John Lennon and Paul McCartney were the songwriting duo that created the majority of the Beatles discography. They wrote the lyrics and composed the melodies, allegedly writing more than 300 songs together though we only got to hear approximately 200 of them through out their Beatles career.
They met in 1957 at a church garden party. John had his teenage garage band, The Quarrymen, playing two sets at the party. After the first set, Paul was introduced to John by their mutual friend Ivan. Paul, who is left handed, took a right handed guitar from one of the band members and successfully played the song Twenty Flight Rock in front of John. witnesses to the scene describe it as an audition of sorts. John and Paul then circled each other like cats in heat and later they would both describe what they felt that day:
“I just thought, ‘Well, he looks good, he’s singing well and he seems like a great lead singer to me. Of course, he had his glasses off, so he really looked suave. I remember John was good. He was really the only outstanding member; all the rest kind of slipped away.”
>[Paul, talking about his first impressions of John, Record Collector Magazine, 1995]“I was on a battered old guitar, which hadn’t cost much. A bloke named Rodney was on banjo, Pete Shotton was on washboard, I think Eric Griffiths was on another guitar and Len Gary [sic] was on box bass.
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