In 1958 John 'Duff' Lowe joined a group with 4 local lads and after back room practicing and playing some local gigs on the 12th July that year went off to record a song in a small studio in the living room of a Victorian terraced house. It was a special one off acetate recording costing under a pound and likely to wear out if it's played too often with an old stylus. But the 78rpm acetate was carefully passed around the group until they eventually called it quits months later and it ended up left with 'Duff' because like with all young men life changes and they all moved on to new things. There's nothing special about capturing a young mans youth on a recording.
Except in 2012 that very acetate became the rarest recording of all time and was estimated at £200,000.
The full line up of the group being John Lennon (guitar/vocals} George Harrison (guitar, and then only 14 years old
!), Paul McCartney (bass/vocals), John 'Duff' Lowe (piano), Colin Hanlon (drums).
Fortunately you don't need to pay nearly a quarter million to hear The Quarry Men play Buddy Holly's 'That'll Be The Day'.
