Question #92919. Asked by BaronBatty.
Last updated Jun 13 2021.
Although George met the group early in the year he was not immediately made a member of the group. In fact, he was never "officially" asked to join but became a member through perseverance. He would sit in at rehearsals and perform with the group when one or another of the group's guitarists didn't show up. He eventually replaced Eric Griffiths when it was decided that the group had too many guitarists. Colin Hanton, who was a good friend of Eric's, was asked by Nigel Whalley to go along with the group and Eric was "frozen out" of the Quarry Men, by the simple method of not informing him of the time and location of rehearsals.http://www.beatlesexaminer.com/namec.htm
In 1958 a then fourteen-year-old George Harrison performed the song to John Lennon and Paul McCartney on the top deck of a bus, and was so note-perfect Lennon decided to let him into his band, the Quarrymen, which later became the Beatles, despite earlier reservations about Harrison's age.
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