He got involved with a skiffle band initially called the Eddie Miles Band which morphed into Eddie Clayton and the Clayton Squares. Out of school for this duration, Starkey remained at home after his return from the sanatorium. The latter illness had him spend two years in a sanitorium from 1953 to 1955. As a child he was sick with appendicitis, peritonitis and finally tuberculosis. Richard Starkey was born in Liverpool in 1940. His father bought him his first guitar in 1956 when Harrison was 13 years old. George Harrison was born in Liverpool in 1943. It became a Top Ten hit in the UK in 1963 for the Merseybeat band the Fourmost. In 1957, Lennon wrote his first song titled “Hello Little Girl”. His middle name was after Britain’s current Prime Minister Winston Churchill, during World War II. John Winston Lennon was born in Liverpool in 1940. On July 15, 1958, John Lennon’s mother died in an automobile accident. This left Lennon, McCartney and Harrison as remaining trio. John Duff Lowe, a friend of Paul’s from the Liverpool Institute, who had joined the Quarrymen in early 1958 left the band at the end of school. Other original members of the Quarrymen, Len Garry, Rod Davis, Colin Hanton, Eric Griffiths and Pete Shotton left the band when their set changed from skiffle to rock ‘n roll. Harrison became one of the Quarrymen in early 1958, though he was still only 14. After Paul joined the group his suggested that his friend, George Harrison, join the group. In 1957, Paul met John Lennon and in October he was invited to join John’s skiffle band, The Quarrymen, which Lennon had founded in 1956. He was left-handed and restrung the strings to make it work. In his early teens McCartney learned to play trumpet, guitar and piano. When Paul was 14 his mom died from a blockage in one of her blood vessels. He attended the Liverpool Institute High School for Boys and met fellow classmates George Harrison on a school bus. Paul McCartney was born in Liverpool in 1942. #1221: I Should Have Known Better by The Beatles
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