Their First Step

It began when a 16 years old boy who could sing and play guitar formed the skiffle group with some liverpool schoolfriends in March 1957. The boy is John Lennon and he named that group The Quarrymen. Another 15 years old boy joined the team as a guitarist in July. We recognized this boy as Paul McCartney. In February 1958 a 14 years old boy named George Harrison also joined the group as lead guitarist. By 1960, Lennon's schoolfriends had left the group.

Lennon's fellow student name Stuart Sutcliffe joining on bass in January and he suggested changing the band name to 'The Beetles' as a tribute to Buddy Holly and The Crickets. The band became 'The Beatals' for the first few months of the year. After trying several names like 'Johnny and The Moondogs', Long John and The Beetles' and also 'The Silver Beatles', the band finally became 'The Beatles' in August.

The Quarrymen, Origin of The Beatles

The Quarrymen are an English skiffle band, initially formed in Liverpool in 1957, some of whose early members founded The Beatles, the most commercially successful critically acclaimed rock band in world history. Originally consisting and of John Lennon and several schoolfriends, The Quarrymen took their name from Quarry Bank High School which Lennon and other band members attended. Lennon's mother, Julia Lennon, taught Lennon and Eric Griffiths how to tune their guitars the same way as a banjo, and taught them simple chords and songs.

After starting a band called The Blackjacks, and then finding out that another group had the same name, Pete Shotton suggested naming themselves The Quarrymen, after a line in the Quarry Bank school's song. The Quarrymen played at parties, school dances, a cinema, and amateur skiffle contests before Paul McCartney joined the band. George Harrison only joined the band at McCartney's insistence, as Lennon thought Harrison to be far too young.

Their first recording on disc was "That'll Be The Day" (by Buddy Holly) and "In Spite Of All The Danger" (by McCartney and Harrison). After Stuart Sutcliffe joined, he suggested renaming them The Beetles, but they changed the name to The Silver Beetles, before finally changing it to The Beatles in 1960.

based from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Quarrymen