Lennon’s art school friend Stuart Sutcliffe , who had just sold one of his paintings and was persuaded to purchase a bass guitar with the proceeds, joined in January 1960. He suggested changing the band’s name to Beatals , as a tribute to Buddy Holly and the Crickets .
The Cester brothers, Nic and Chris , grew up in Dingley Village and attended St Bede’s College, Mentone , Melbourne. They listened to their father John’s classic rock records from the 1960s and 1970s. While still at school Nic formed a group by 1995, which Cameron Muncey joined. Jet’s influences…
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By the time Strangeways, Here We Come was released in September, the Smiths had split. The breakup has been primarily attributed to Morrissey’s irritation with Marr’s work with other artists and Marr’s frustration with Morrissey’s musical inflexibility. Marr particularly hated Morrissey’s obsession with covering 1960s pop artists such as Twinkle…
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A few days later, Morrissey and Marr held their first rehearsal in Marr’s rented attic room in Bowdon . Morrissey provided the lyrics for “Don’t Blow Your Own Horn”, the first song that they worked on; however, they decided against retaining the song, with Marr commenting that “neither of us…
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The band was initially started as a side-project by Yuya Uchida when he returned to Japan after visiting his friend John Lennon in England in the mid-1960s, where he was introduced to various upcoming artists such as Cream and Jimi Hendrix . Yuya wanted to introduce a similar sound to…
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An enduring urban legend in the UK maintains that a possible explanation for the feral parakeets that have appeared in Great Britain since the mid-20th century may derive from a single pair of the birds that were released by Hendrix on Carnaby Street in the 1960s. According to a study,…
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Daltrey, who was in the year above, had moved to Acton from Shepherd’s Bush , a more working-class area. He had trouble fitting in at the school, and discovered gangs and rock and roll. He was expelled at 15 and found work on a building site. In 1959, he started…
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By January 1959, Lennon’s Quarry Bank friends had left the group and he began his studies at the Liverpool College of Art . The three guitarists, billing themselves as Johnny and the Moondogs, were playing rock and roll whenever they could find a drummer. They also performed as the Rainbows.…
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In February 1958, McCartney invited his friend George Harrison , then aged fifteen, to watch the band. Harrison auditioned for Lennon, impressing him with his playing, but Lennon initially thought Harrison was too young. After a month’s persistence, during a second meeting (arranged by McCartney), Harrison performed the lead guitar…
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At the time of his 16th birthday on June 20, 1958, Brian Wilson shared a bedroom with his brothers, Dennis and Carl —aged 13 and 11, respectively—in their family home in Hawthorne . He had watched his father Murry Wilson play piano, and had listened intently to the harmonies of…
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