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John Lennon met guitarist Paul McCartney
"John Lennon formed a skiffle group called The Quarrymen. Lennon and the Quarrymen met the quitarist Paul McCartney at the Woolton Garden Fete held at St. Peter´s Church" -
George Harrison was invited to watch "The Quarrymen"
"The young guitarrist George Harrison was invited to watch the group at Wilson Hall, Liverpool" -
Harrison joined The Quarrymen
"At McCartney´s insistence, Harrison joine The Quarrymen as lead guitarist after a rehearsal" -
Lennon´s art school friend Stuart Sutcliffe joined, and then they called themselves "The Beatles"
"Members continually joined and left the lineup during that period, and in January 1960 Lennon´s art school friend Stuart Sutcliffe joined and played bass. Lennon and McCartney both played rhythm guitar and the group had a high turnover of drummers."
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The Beatles began playing in Hamburg
"The Beatles began playing in Hamburg, at the Indra Club"
"They were required to play six o seven hours a night, seven nights a week." -
The reunited group played their first engagement at the Casbah Club
After some problems in November 1960.
"The reunited group played their first engagement on 17 November 1960 at the Casbah Club (with Chas Newby substituting for Sutcliffe" -
"Love Me Do" reached the top of the US singles
"The Beatles´ first EMI session on 6 June 1962 did not yield any recordings considered worthy of release, but the September sessions a few months later produced a minor UK hit, "Love Me Do", which peaked in the charts at number 17.("Love Me Do" reached the top of the US singles chart over 18 months later in May 1964) -
The first televisied performance
"The band´s first televised performance was on the People and Places programme, transmitted live from Manchester by Granada Television" "fame spread, the frenzied adulation of the group, predominantly from the teenage female fans, was dubbed Beatlemania." -
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The Beatles on the radio
"Art Roberts , music director of Chicago powerhouse radio station WLS, placed "Please Please Me" into radio rotation in late February 1963, making it the first time a Beatle´s record was heard on American radio." -
Beatlemania cross the Atlantic
"Beatlemania crossed the Atlantic on 7 February 1964, when a crowd of four thousandss fans at Heathrow Airport waved to The Beatles as they took off for their first trip to the United States as a group."