The Quarrymen (sometimes written as The Quarry Men) (circa late 1956 - Oct 1959) are an English skiffle group formed in Liverpool in the latter part of 1956 by John Lennon with several school friends. It was the band that eventually evolved into The Beatles. The group's name was inspired by the name of the Quarry Bank grammar school, which Lennon and most of his band-mates attended. Preamble John Lennon had become enthused with rock 'n' roll music firstly through Bill Haley & His Comets Rock Around The Clock in January 1955 and then Elvis Presley's hit Heartbreak Hotel in April 1956. British teenagers in the mid-1950s who wished to try creating such music but who had no experience or training became attracted to a musical form peculiar to Britain known as skiffle music. It was a hybrid of American folk, blues and hillbilly with strains of primitive rock 'n' roll. Its primary attraction was that it did not r