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John Lennon was just 17 when he formed his first band, The Quarry men. In 1957 Lennon met Paul McCartney and invited him to join his group McCartney introduced to Lennon his friend and former classmate, George Harrison and he joined the group John Lennon Paul McCartney George Harrison Pete Best Stuart Sutcliffe In 1960 drummer Pete Best and bassist Stu Sutcliffe joined to the group Pete Best Stuart Sutcliffe They went through a lot of names before settling on The Beatles. Paul, John, Pete and George George, Stu and John The Quarrymen in Hamburg, 1960 In June 1962, after Stu had gone the band auditioned for Parlophone Records producer George Martin Ringo Starr, the drummer of another popular Liverpool band was recruited to replace Best. In September, 1962, the bands first single, Love Me Do was released, eventually reaching #17 in the UK. Their first album, Please Please Me was released in the UK in March 1963. …She loves you … yeah yeah yeah… she loves you… yeah yeah yeah… Their second album, With The Beatles became only the second album ever to sell a million copies in the UK Vee Jay Records obtained the US rights to most of the songs from Please Please Me and released them on an album titled Introducing ... The Beatles in January 1964. On Ed Sullivans show In New Zealand and Australia their arrival was greeted by a crowd estimated at more than 300,000. The first Beatles movie, A Hard Days Night was released in 1964. Beatlemania The Fab Four became Members of the Order of the British Empire The Beatles second movie, Help! came out in 1965 Revolver is considered to be one of the Beatles best albums The Beatles Who are they? Some may say that they are four young long-haired hooligans singing primitive rock’n’roll tunes The others may put them in the same rank with the greatest composers, such as Mozart, Beethoven and Bach Still the others may call them outstanding pacifists, philosophers and optimists They are four boys from Liverpool, who decided to play an