The Beatles – Paul McCartney on first assembly ‘posh’ John Lennon singing Elvis

The Beatles are probably the most profitable music act of all time, alongside Sir Paul McCartney and John Lennon’s songwriting work collectively.

Incredibly, it was 66 years in the past right now on July 6, 1957 that the pair first met and the remainder was historical past.

Before being launched to one another, Macca remembered seeing the “Teddy Boy” round Liverpool.

Speaking beforehand with John’s son Sean Lennon on BBC Radio 2, for what would have been the star’s eightieth birthday, Sir Paul stated: “The humorous factor about your dad was that I’d seen him round a few occasions, as a result of I realised later what it was, my bus route, he would take that bus, however he can be going to see his mum who lived form of in my space. And then he’d take the bus again as much as his Auntie Mimi’s. So I’d seen him a few occasions and thought, ‘Wow, you know, he’s an interesting-looking man.’

“And then I once also saw him in a queue for fish and chips and I said, ‘Oh, that’s that guy off the bus’. I’m talking to myself, in my mind I thought, ‘I saw that guy off the bus, oh he’s pretty cool looking. Yeah, you know, he’s a cool guy.’”

Asked if he knew John was a musician even back then, the music legend replied: “No, I knew nothing about him except that he looked pretty cool. He had long sideboards and greased back hair and everything…it was the Teddy Boy look, yeah.”

Teddy Boys or Teds were young men in the 1950s whose clothing style was inspired by Edwardian dandies. The Beatles duo first met 66 years ago at St Peter’s Church Hall fete in Woolton, when Paul was 15-years-old.

Paul, now 81, remembered: “My friend Ivan, who I knew at school, was a friend of John’s and took me up to the village fete, introduced me there. So it was like, ‘Oh, that’s that guy who I’ve been seeing.’ And then obviously I knew he was a musician because he was in the little band, The Quarrymen, and I got to sort of hang with them in the interval.”

Former Quarrymen member Len Garry stated in his book John, Paul and Me that the band performed Elvis Presley’s All Shook Up that day, a music they recorded however was later erased. Asked what it was like first listening to The Quarrymen play stay, Sir Paul stated: “I thought John was good. I thought the group wasn’t that good. You know, I didn’t think they were bad.”

When he joined the band from 1957-1960, Macca would really find yourself performing All Shook Up on lead vocals. He added that John was the poshest of The Beatles, saying: “He was in Menlove Avenue and I was off an avenue called Madison Avenue. Compared to the rest of us in The Beatles, he was the posh one.”