The Beatles Bible

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

This was the last known performance by the Quarry Men at Wilson Hall. Unlike the previous three, it wasn't promoted by Charlie 'Mac' McBain, and there were no Teddy boys causing trouble. Read more »

The Morgue Skiffle Cellar was an illegal club held in the basement of a large Victorian house at 25 Oakhill Park in the Broadgreen area of Liverpool. Read more »

George Harrison claimed the first time he saw the Quarry Men was at the Wilson Hall, opposite the bus depot in Garston, Liverpool. According to Beatles scholar Mark Lewisohn, the date was most likely 6 February 1958. Read more »

The Quarry Men's first live engagement of 1958 was their third at the New Clubmoor Hall, a Conservative Club in Liverpool's Norris Green district. Read more »

This was the Quarry Men's second of four performances at Wilson Hall in Liverpool's Garston district, one of the venues run by local promoter Charlie 'Mac' McBain. Read more »

The Quarry Men returned to the New Clubmoor Hall in Norris Green, Liverpool, less than a month after they first played there. Read more »

A somewhat bizarre booking for the nascent Quarry Men: they performed two raucous sets for the social club of Liverpool's Stanley Abattoir. Read more »

This was the first time the Quarry Men played at this notoriously rough venue in the Garston district of Liverpool. Read more »

Liverpudlian promoter Charlie 'Mac' McBain held regular skiffle and rock events at his venues. On Friday 18 October he ran one such event, at the New Clubmoor Hall in Norris Green, Liverpool. It was the first show in which Paul McCartney appeared onstage with the Quarry Men.

McCartney played lead guitar. First-night nerves, however, caused him to make a hash of his solo during the Quarry Men's version of Arthur Smith's 1946 instrumental hit Guitar Boogie. Read more »

The Cavern Club would become a regular venue for Beatles shows while they remained a Liverpool secret. Once Beatlemania took hold, however, they rarely played in their home city again. Read more »

Three weeks after first meeting John Lennon, Paul McCartney and his brother Michael went to Scout camp at Hathersage in Derbyshire. Read more »

On the afternoon of 6 July 1957 the Quarry Men skiffle group played at the garden fete of St Peter's Church, Woolton, Liverpool. Read more »

The Quarry Men played twice on this day. In the afternoon they performed on the back of a stationary coal lorry, and that evening took part in a street party, both in Liverpool's Rosebery Street. Read more »

Less than a month after their first live appearance, The Quarry Men entered ABC TV's talent show TV Star Search, organised by "Mr Star Maker" Carroll Levis. Read more »