July 6, 1957. 68 Years Ago Today. John Lennon And Paul McCartney Meet For The Very First Time: 

July 6, 1957. 68 Years Ago Today. John Lennon And Paul

McCartney Meet For The Very First Time:

 

You could easily call 6 July 1957 one of the most important days in Rock And Roll history. (For people like me it is the most important day). That was the day that Paul McCartney and John Lennon met for the very first time.

 

That afternoon John Lennon’s band The Quarrymen played at a field behind a church with a young Paul McCartney in attendance. Later that evening a mutual friend named Ivan Vaughan would introduce the two teenagers having no idea the importance of this introduction, and the effect it would have on music history . Vaughan was the very first person to see something that millions of others would eventually see years later. And that would be an immediate chemistry between the two even though they were completely different people in every way. 

 

A young McCartney would be impressed by John’s ability to take a popular song and make it his own by coming up with his own lyrics to the popular song “Come Go With Me”. And how Lennon stood out from the others in the Quarrymen as a talent and force on his own. 

 

A young John Lennon would be impressed with Paul’s talent as both a guitar player and singer when playing him Eddie Cochran’s “Twenty Flight Rock”, a moment that would in many ways become known as the most important audition of all time. And Paul had no idea he was auditioning for anything. 

 

Little did Paul know how impressed Lennon was with him. John was actually so impressed with Paul that there was a time that he actually hesitated to ask Paul to join his band because of the fear of Paul overshadowing his own talents. Yet as history proves Lennon did have his bandmate Pete Shotton ask Paul to join the Quarrymen. And from there the rest is history.  

 

That band The Quarrymen would eventually become a band called The Beatles. 

 

John Lennon and Paul McCartney would eventually become the greatest and most influential songwriting team of the rock and roll era. 

 

All of us owe Ivan Vaughan a huge “THANK YOU” for introducing John To Paul which became not only an event that changed their lives but also all of our lives. 

 

Without that introduction we would never have known The Beatles. And the story of rock and roll music would be told very differently today. 

 

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