This past Sunday morning I was dragging anchor a little after Saturday night’s Buzzy party. The refrain from “Twenty Flight Rock” ran thru my mind “I’m too tired to rock.” In looking for the Eddie Cochran original of the song I found the following:
“The barely 15-year-old Paul McCartney used “Twenty Flight Rock” as his first song when he auditioned for John Lennon on July 6, 1957 in Liverpool, England. The 16-year-old Lennon was impressed by the young McCartney’s ability to play the song on the guitar during their first official introductions at St. Peter’s Church Hall prior to a church garden fete. The good first impression of McCartney’s performance led to an invitation to join The Quarrymen – John Lennon’s band that would eventually evolved into The Beatles. On The Beatles Anthology, McCartney noted that: “I think what impressed him most was that I knew all the words.”from wikipedia
Hard to imagine that Paul had to audition to be in the Quarrymen/Beatles. That John.