Liverpool Beatles Tours

A Day in the Life for the Trip of a Lifetime

George Harrison was born on 24^th February 1943 – or was it 25^th February? His birth certificate has always shown 25^th February, but apparently he was born before midnight on the 24^th, but by the time the midwife wrote down the details, it was the 25^th!

He was born at 12, Arnold Grove (left) where he lived until he was nearly seven years old. The family then moved out to 25, Upton Green (Right) in January 1950. They lived there until 1962 when they moved again to 174 Macketts Lane , but they soon became overrun with a new phenomenon: Beatlemania had arrived and the house was soon besieged.

George therefore moved his family out of Liverpool to a bungalow, Sevenoaks in Appleton, near Warrington.

His schooling began at Dovedale Primary School where he attended the same school as John Lennon, though they didn’t know each other then. At the age of eleven, he moved on to the Liverpool Institute (below left)where he befriended a lad who got the same bus to school as him: his name was Paul McCartney.

After getting a guitar and learning until his fingers bled, he formed a group with his friend Arthur Kelly, and they appeared as The Rebels at the British Legion, Dam Wood Road.
He and Paul used to learn guitar together, and soon it was Paul who introduced him to John and he joined the Quarry Men after playing a guitar riff of “Raunchy” after meeting John and the Quarry Men at a gig at Wilson Hall.

He left the Quarry Men after their appearances dried up, and joined another band called the Les Stewart Quartet, who appeared at Lowlands. After an argument in the band, he and Ken Brown left the Les Stewart Quartet and reformed the Quarrymen adding John and Paul again to open the Casbah Coffee Club in August 1959.

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