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Colin Hanton was the drummer for the Quarrymen, the group founded by John Lennon in 1957 that eventually evolved in to the Beatles. In those times the primary requirement of drumming within a music group was running a package. Eric Griffith, a guitarist in the Quarrymen, found Hanton’s home to …

The chances are extraordinarily high that, under ordinary circumstances, the Quarrymen (or Quarry Guys — no two sources acknowledge the spelling) could have been forgotten years ago, alongside thousands of various other skiffle rings that sprang up throughout Britain in the middle- to past due -’50s. Since it worked out, …