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The origin of the Beatles is a school band formed by John Lennon called the Quarrymen; Lennon attended Quarry Bank School at the time. The Quarrymen performed at a local fete in 1957 which was attended by Paul McCartney; McCartney was introduced to Lennon by a mutual friend. McCartney was obviously a talented musician and Lennon had to balance that against McCartney being two years younger than Lennon and Lennon thought that McCartney might "compete" with him as the band's leader.

The day after the fete, Lennon asked McCartney to join the band. McCartney was friends with George Harrison - they shared the bus journey to school; McCartney wanted Harrison in the band as he was such a good guitarist but Lennon was even more reluctant; Harrison was three years younger than Lennon - but eventually he was persuaded by playing "Raunchy" perfectly. As well as these three, Stuart Sutcliffe was also a member - although he was largely in as friend of John's rather than as a musician; Harrison and McCartney both admitted to being occasionally embarrassed by Sutcliffe's bass playing.

Sutcliffe left the band to live in Hamburg, but he died shortly after (in 1962).

Ringo joined long after; Pete Best was drummer until 1962 - George Martin (the Beatles' producer) had told their manager that Best wouldn't be accurate enough for studio recordings, the Beatles knew Ringo from Hamburg and considered him the best drummer in Liverpool. Lennon has pointed out that Ringo Starr was very successful before joining the Beatles. Best was sacked and Ringo replaced him in August 1962.

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The band started as a school band formed by John Lennon in 1957. John met Paul in August of that year and in 1958 Paul suggested George Harrison as a member - at that point, George was 14 so John was reluctant to let a "kid" join the band - he was 17. It took a month of persistence by George to become a member. They visited Hamburg in 1960 and met Ringo. He joined the band in 1962.

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It was a mixture of talent, luck and timing.

Obviously, The Beatles were talented singers, musicians and songwriters.

They were lucky with their manager and producer.

Their good timing was coming to fame in 1963, just when the baby-boomer generation were teenagers - a huge percentage of people were under 20 in 1963, so they had a very large audience.

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