... they should play music together sometime. Paul was soon part of The Quarrymen, but after the group broke up, John and Paul made a new group consisting of themselves and drummer Pete Best. Eventually, Paul's friend George Harrison joined the band on guitar. They called themselves "The Silver Beetles" but eventually changed their name to just "The Beatles". Weeks later The Beatles ... label. This comes as a great disappointment to the band, but they are quickly re-signed to EMI records. The Beatles, signed to a new label, decided to get a new drummer because Pete Best was very bad. They s...

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... Quarry Men he asked his soul mate Stuart Sutcliffe to join. They performed many gigs throughout Scotland and upon returning, decided they needed a drummer. Later that year after recruiting a drummer, Pete Best, they were offered work in Germany. The Quarry Men became Long John Silver and the SilverBeatles. Later it was then simplified to The Beatles. It was not long before ... Stuart found other interests in Germany, like women and Pete was cut from the group by the head of the record label. Finally, Ringo Starr was invited into the group and they became the Fab Four that we know of ......

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... . This was the brand of music that influenced the Beatles. The band began as a small group of musicians, known as the Quarrymen, marshaled by John Lennon and his childhood friend, Pete Shotton. At one of their concerts, a young man, Paul McCartney, was given the chance to impress John, and he did not disappoint (Everett 24). In fact, he incorporated into the ... ...

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... the Beatles, an English group strongly influenced by American rock "n" roll and revival of folk music, headed by groups such as The Weavers and Peter, Paul and Merry, and singers Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, and Bob Dylan. But most important was the goring political-social awareness of there performers as that rallied American youth, by action and original songs, in the ... ...

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