THE QUARRYMEN
George Harrison , Eric Griffiths , Nigel Whalley , Paul McCartney , Colin Hanton , Pete Shotton , John "Duff" Lowe , Len Garry , Ivan Vaughan , John Lennon , Rod Davis , Pete Best , Ken Brown , Stuart Sutcliffe , Bill Smith
Formed - 1957
Disbanded - 1959
The odds are extraordinarily high that, under ordinary circumstances, the Quarrymen (or Quarry Men--no two sources agree on the spelling) would have been forgotten decades ago, along with thousands of other skiffle bands that sprang up throughout England in the middle/late-1950's. As it worked out, however, they proved one of the great sources of talent in the history of popular music, having been founded by John Lennon, and Paul McCartney and George Harrison having passed through their line-up.