![]() This was the first time the Fab Four performed together. On October 18, 1960, with Pete Best on an errand to find drumsticks, Ringo Starr stood in for Best to play a set with McCartney, Lennon and Harrison. By the fall of 1959, Starkey changed his professional name to Ringo Starr and his drum solos during their concerts were billed as ‘Starr Time.’ Beginning October 1, 1960, Rory Storm & The Hurricanes began a gig at the Kaiserkeller club in Hamburg, Germany. Starkey next joined Al Caldwell’s Texans which eventually became Rory Storm & The Hurricanes. He got involved with a skiffle band initially called the Eddie Miles Band which morphed into Eddie Clayton and the Clayton Squares. Out of school for this duration, Starkey remained at home after his return from the sanatorium. The latter illness had him spend two years in a sanitorium from 1953 to 1955. As a child he was sick with appendicitis, peritonitis and finally tuberculosis. Richard Starkey was born in Liverpool in 1940. His father bought him his first guitar in 1956 when Harrison was 13 years old. George Harrison was born in Liverpool in 1943. It became a Top Ten hit in the UK in 1963 for the Merseybeat band the Fourmost. In 1957, Lennon wrote his first song titled “Hello Little Girl”. His middle name was after Britain’s current Prime Minister Winston Churchill, during World War II. John Winston Lennon was born in Liverpool in 1940. On July 15, 1958, John Lennon’s mother died in an automobile accident. This left Lennon, McCartney and Harrison as remaining trio. John Duff Lowe, a friend of Paul’s from the Liverpool Institute, who had joined the Quarrymen in early 1958 left the band at the end of school. Other original members of the Quarrymen, Len Garry, Rod Davis, Colin Hanton, Eric Griffiths and Pete Shotton left the band when their set changed from skiffle to rock ‘n roll. Harrison became one of the Quarrymen in early 1958, though he was still only 14. After Paul joined the group his suggested that his friend, George Harrison, join the group. In 1957, Paul met John Lennon and in October he was invited to join John’s skiffle band, The Quarrymen, which Lennon had founded in 1956. He was left-handed and restrung the strings to make it work. ![]() In his early teens McCartney learned to play trumpet, guitar and piano. When Paul was 14 his mom died from a blockage in one of her blood vessels. He attended the Liverpool Institute High School for Boys and met fellow classmates George Harrison on a school bus. Paul McCartney was born in Liverpool in 1942. Peak Position on Billboard Hot 100 ~ did not chart It is a gender-flip cover version of an obscure Motown song by girl group The Marvelettes.#41: Please Mister Postman by the Beatles Ian MacDonald criticised their version for having a "wall of sound" and for a "general airlessness." It has become a fan favourite and even considered the best version by many. ![]() By the time it was recorded for their second album, With The Beatles, it had been dropped from their set, and required some work in the studio to bring it up to an acceptable standard. The Beatles included Please Mister Postman (a cover of a song by the Marvelettes) as part of their live act in 1962, performing it regularly at the Cavern Club. It is credited to Georgia Dobbins, William Garrett, Freddie Gorman, Brian Holland, and Robert Bateman. ![]() It is the seventh and final song on side one of The Beatles' Second UK LP, " With The Beatles". ![]()
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