When John Lennon decided that he wanted to play music, he first recruited his best friend, Pete Shotton to his embryonic group. Lennon was to be the singer and guitarist. Shotton was relegated to washboard, a common skiffle instrument. After just one week as the Black Jacks, they renamed themselves the "Quarry Men," after a line in their school song at Quarry Bank Grammar School and a week later they recruited a friend from that school, Bill Smith to play tea chest bass, despite Shotton's protestations as he had rece ...

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