The Quarrymen reformed in 1997 and will play The Castle pub on Finchley Road in London on 12 October.

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Meanwhile, the Quarrymen had become the Silver Beatles and, as they prepared to leave for Hamburg, Germany, needed a drummer.

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The burgundy door was at the entrance to a studio in the Kensington area of the city where the band, then known as The Quarrymen, did their first professional recording session.

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People in the slate districts of north Wales treasure the memory of the cultured quarrymen whose breaks from their labours in their hillside 'caban' would be filled with literary discussions and exercises in Welsh poetry.

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