Description
Ken Brown left The Quarrymen after John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison decided he should not receive a share of the performance fee because he had missed a Casbah Coffee Club performance due to a heavy cold.
Related events
- They made their first appearance at the Cavern Club in Liverpool. On February 9, 1961, the group performed there for the first time under their new name, The Beatles.
- Three surviving members of John Lennon's first group, The Quarrymen, were invited to perform at a special benefit concert for Amnesty International near Lennon's former home at the Dakota Apartments in New York on the occasion of what would have been his 70th birthday.
- The three surviving members of The Quarrymen, John Lennon's original band, performed a special Amnesty International charity concert in New York to mark what would have been Lennon's 70th birthday. Held at the Society for Ethical Culture, just blocks from Lennon's former home at the Dakota Apartments, the concert concluded a 21-day U.S. tour and featured guest appearances by folk legend Pete Seeger.