Staying with Beatles type news, and one of John Lennon's early bandmates has revealed the former Beatle very nearly gave up playing the guitar after just two lessons because it was too difficult! Colin Hanton, who was the drummer in Lennon's first band The Quarrymen, told the BBC World Service's Music Biz programme:
"Once Eric [Griffiths, Quarrymen guitarist] and John Lennon actually tried to learn to play guitar properly, they went to a music teacher for two lessons - and decided it was going to take forever to play music properly. But then Lonnie Donegan came on the scene and said 'all you need is three chords and something you can bang' - a rhythm section or whatever - so overnight everybody joined a skiffle group. So they realised you didn't have to be particularly musical or talented, as long as you could keep a tune."
In the end it was the recruitment of Paul McCartney that helped
Griffiths and Lennon learn to play the guitar properly. Quarrymen member Rod Davis tells the programme: "When Paul turned up, he eventually taught them how to play guitar chords. That was a great improvement to the sound."