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Aged sixteen, singer and guitarist John Lennon formed the group The Quarrymen with some Liverpool schoolfriends in March 1957. Fifteen-year-old Paul McCartney joined as a guitarist after he and Lennon met that July. When McCartney invited George Harrison to watch the group the following February, the fourteen-year-old joined as lead guitarist.
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By 1960, the three guitarists were playing rock and roll whenever they could get a drummer. Joining on bass in January, Stuart Sutcliffe suggested changing the band name to "The Beatles" as a tribute to Buddy Holly and The Crickets. Before the end of August they auditioned and hired drummer Pete Best,
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In mid-December 1960, Sutcliffe's fiancée, supposedly cut Sutcliffe's hair in the moptop style that was later adopted by the other Beatles.
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June 1962. Martin complained to Epstein about Best's drumming and suggested the band use a session drummer in the studio. Instead, Best was replaced by Ringo Starr.
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On its release in August, the band's fourth single, "She Loves You", achieved the fastest sales of any record in the UK up to that time, selling three-quarters of a million copies in under four weeks
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