60 Years Ago, 2 Boys Met And The Beatles Began

"Sixty years ago, two young musicians happened upon each other in Liverpool, England, in a meeting that would change the course of popular music forever."

"It was July 6, 1957. John Lennon, then 16, was playing with his skiffle group The Quarrymen at a church garden party in the midst of a stultifying heat wave. Paul McCartney, 15, was in the crowd, wearing a white sports jacket with a pink carnation."

"In the documentary The Beatles Anthology, McCartney remembers the spectacle of Lennon strutting around in a checked shirt,'and sort of blondish kind of hair, little bit curly, [sideburns], looking pretty cool. And he was playing one of these guitars — guaranteed not to crack, not a very good one — but he was making a very good job of it.'"