JOHN’S OLD BAND PLAYS AT PUB IN CHILDS HILL

Pic l-r John Duff Lowe, Len Garry, Rod Davis, Colin Hanton Old pic is the day Lennon and McCartney first met at the Woolton village fete on July 6 1957. John Lennon is also in this picture sitting down on the right hand side

Dennis Cooke, landlord of The Castle pub in Childs Hill, where John Lennon's old band The Quarrymen will play a gig. 

A moment of rock’n’roll history was relived on stage in Childs Hill last week – as John Lennon’s first band performed the music that set Beatlemania in motion.

Lennon formed The Quarrymen in 1956 and was famously playing with them on stage the day he met Paul McCartney.

On Friday (October 12), four of the original band members got together to play their first gig in London in seven years at The Castle pub to mark the 50th anniversary of the release of The Beatles’ first single, Love Me Do.

The pub, in Finchley Road, has long been a favourite with The Beatles fan club members. It was through the club that landlord Dennis Cooke was able to book the band, who recently toured America in conjunction with the film Nowhere Boy, which tells the story of Lennon’s early life.

“This gig is so amazing for anyone who wants to know about the type of music that John started his career with,” said Mr Cooke, Fatboy Slim’s uncle and a DJ himself. 
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