Wednesday, October 18, 2023

66 Years Ago Today

Three months after meeting John Lennon for the first time, Paul McCartney played his first show with The Quarrymen:

For my first gig, I was given a guitar solo on ‘Guitar Boogie’. I could play it easily in rehearsal so they elected that I should do it as my solo. Things were going fine, but when the moment came in the performance I got sticky fingers; I thought, ‘What am I doing here?’ I was just too frightened; it was too big a moment with everyone looking at the guitar player. I couldn’t do it. That’s why George was brought in.

Here's a clipping of the announcement. Incredible this exists.

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