The story of the Beatles began in 1956. During the early 50’s Liverpool was hit by the skiffle craze. Skiffle music was an improvised form of jazz and hillbilly sounds that was produced with rudimentary instruments such as guitars, washboard, jugs and packing case single string bass. All of the Beatles were influenced by this new form of music. Both John and Paul McCartney, born James Paul McCartney on June 18, 1942 in Liverpool, begged their families for guitars in order to pursue their musical careers. In 1956 John Lennon was playing at the Woolton Parish Church with his band, The Quarrymen. Paul was in the audience and was very impressed with Jon’s musical talent. After the show Paul played a couple of songs for John. Of his first encounter with John Paul states, “Quite a nice chap, but he did smell rather beery.” A week after Pete Sholton, a mutual friend, informed Paul that John was impressed with his playing and that it would be ok if he joined the group. Paul accepted the offer and played publicly with the group for the first time at the Conservative Club in Broadway. After the show Paul played a couple of songs that he had written to john. After this John began writing his own tunes and bouncing them off to Paul, beginning the greatest two-man songwriting partnership of this century.
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