World Day The Beatles
World Day The Beatles is held on January 16. This event in the second decade of the month January is annual. Help us
John Lennon's father was absent for much of his early life but showed up when his son became famous. The Beatles got the idea for their name from Buddy Holly and The Crickets.
Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr were not the original rhythm section. A friend of John Lennon’s from art school, Stu Sutcliffe, handled the bass duties when the band was living and working in Hamburg, Germany during the early 1960s, while McCartney stuck to rhythm guitar. In Hamburg, Sutcliffe left the band to pursue a relationship with Astrid Kirchherr, a German photographer who befriended the band, and to study art in Germany. He died in his twenties of a brain hemorrhage. A Liverpool contemporary of the Beatles named Pete Best was the band’s original drummer. He was not replaced by Ringo Starr until after the band had a record contract and was angry when this happened.
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