
6 July 1957 was a key day for the history of modern music: it was the day when John Lennon met Paul McCartney for the first time.
It was a sunny afternoon and there was a simple church fete at St Peter’s Church in Woolton South Liverpool, the annual Woolton Parish Church Garden Fete, with
refreshments, ice cream vans, craft stalls, games, police dog demonstrations and music.
The entertainment began at two p.m. with the opening procession to the Church field. There were two lorries, the first lorry carried the Rose Queen, with her cortege, all dressed in pink with ribbons and roses in their hair, and the second the band. They were the Quarrymen, a skiffle/rock and roll group. formed by John Lennon in Liverpool a few months before. (Skiffle is a kind of folk music that often uses a combination of manufactured and improvised instruments).
They first played on the back of the moving lorry, and then on a permanent stage in the field behind the church.
15-year-old Paul McCartney was there, because he had been invited by his schoolmate Ivan Vaughan, one of the players. He was deeply impressed by John’s performance, despite his rudimentary guitar skills and his tendency to make up the lyrics he didn’t know.
After the show Ivan introduced the band to him. And now it was Paul’s turn to impress John, when he pulled out the guitar he was carrying on his back, showed him how to tune it and played some of his favourite songs.
♪♫♬ After a week, John invited Paul to join the band, and together they changed the face of music. ♪♫♬
un incontro leggendario
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Veroooo
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Anche il destino vuole la sua parte. 😉
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Sì
… e facendo il gioco del “What if…” non riesco a immaginare nulla di piacevole! 🙂
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Surely the highest point in the history of music 🙂 Grazie cara Amica ❤
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A pivotal day…🎶🎶🎶
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… and thanks for the greeting in Italian ❤
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per favore bella 🙂 ❤
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😉❤
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A great day indeed! ❤️
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💙💚❤💛💜🧡
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Bon week-end ! 🙂
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Merci de ta visite.
Bon weekend a’ toi
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Buon fine settimana Luisa 🎶❤
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Anche a te
Have a wonderful weekend ❤😋❤
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Great post Luisa. I must admit I didn’t know that was how John and Paul met.
miriam
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I’m pleased you found this post interesting.
Thank you, dear Miriam, for your comment
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Great day to celebrate, thank you, grazie mille – and at a time when one does NOT feel proud to be English!
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Thank you for visiting, reading and commenting
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A fascinating thing to learn. Thanks for sharing it with us.
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Thank you so much for your kindness
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Serendipity . . . so interesting to learn how now famous people had started out — so young and eager. Who knew?
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Thank you for your kind words. I’m so pleased you enjoyed this post
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Some of the best music from the recent past came from my home town of Liverpool.
Quarry Bank High School which John Lennon attended was not far from where I lived. It later became Calderstones High School, where I attended my first creative writing evening class, during which I wrote some of the scenes which would become part of my first novel.
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How interesting!
I went to your page to see the books you published and I really have to congratulate you 💜 💜 💜
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Skiffle music was a music craze made with guitar, and a washboard from the laundry that was scraped up and down on with fingernails to produce a percussive sound. It was very easy for ordinary youthful post war youth to set up a group and play. The music craze was made popular in the late 1950’s by Lonnie Donegan, the songs were mainly American folk songs.
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Really interesting
Thank you so much for sharing that!
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Bravissima Luisa!!! Grazie 😊
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Grazie di cuore! ❤️😊
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Good post! Watched the new film Yesterday. ☺
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Wow
Did you like it?
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It was a nice rom-com and I liked hearing the Beatles songs. Some funny parts too. I think hardcore Beatles fans would criticise it though for its accuracy of the band image.
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Thank you 🎶
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Penso che tu abbia parzialmente ragione, ma Buddy Holly ha dato forma. Grazie
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Hai ragione. È stato davvero influente
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Great story. You can see their guitars in The Cavern Club in Liverpool, and the guitars from The Quarry Men.
https://literarylydi.wordpress.com/2019/08/10/liverpool/
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Thank you very much.
I visited your blog: really nice
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