Author: Joe

The Quarrymen performed at Mona Best’s Casbah Coffee Club on seven consecutive Saturdays between August and October 1959. This was their third engagement at the venue.

Following their success performance on the opening night of the Casbah Club, the Quarrymen were booked for a Saturday night residency by the owner, Mona Best.

The Quarrymen performed at this venue on just one occasion. As with their 1 January performance at Wilson Hall, it was a late Christmas party.

This was the last known performance by the Quarrymen at Wilson Hall. Unlike the previous three, it wasn’t promoted by Charlie ‘Mac’ McBain, and there were no Teddy boys …

Following their audition for Carroll Levis’ TV Star Search in October 1958, Johnny and the Moondogs were invited back to Manchester’s Ardwick Hippodrome for to appear in the stage …

Although the Quarrymen had entered the competition the previous year without success, John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison travelled to Manchester for another preliminary audition for the ABC …

The Quarrymen recorded two songs at Phillips Sound Recording Services, a home studio in Liverpool, on 12 July 1958. It was the first recording session featuring John Lennon, Paul …

This picture of John Lennon with friend and Quarrymen manager Nigel Walley was uncovered by the BBC during research for a 2007 episode of Inside Out.

The first colour photograph of The Quarrymen was taken at the Liverpool wedding reception of Paul McCartney’s cousin Ian Harris and his bride Jackie. The photographer was Mike McCartney.

George Harrison claimed the first time he saw the Quarrymen was at the Wilson Hall, opposite the bus depot in Garston, Liverpool. According to Beatles historian Mark Lewisohn, the …

The Quarrymen’s first live engagement of 1958 was their third at the New Clubmoor Hall, a Conservative Club in Liverpool’s Norris Green district.

This was the Quarrymen’s second of four performances at Wilson Hall in Liverpool’s Garston district, one of the venues run by local promoter Charlie ‘Mac’ McBain.

A somewhat bizarre booking for the nascent Quarrymen: they performed two raucous sets for the social club of Liverpool’s Stanley Abattoir.

This was the first time the Quarrymen played at this notoriously rough venue in the Garston district of Liverpool.