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Byline: Andrew Romano
1. Spring 1956: John, 15, catches a radio broadcast of Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel." "When I heard it," he says later, "it was the end for me."
2. July 6, 1957: At a local church party, John leads his first band, the Quarry Men, through a ramshackle set. Afterward he meets 15 year-old Paul McCartney, who, primed for the occasion, whips out a guitar and tears through Eddie Cochran's "Twenty Flight Rock." Impressed and threatened, Lennon asks...
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