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English musical quartets

  • The BeatlesIn November 1956, a sixteen-year-old John Lennon formed a skiffle group with friends from Quarry Bank High School in Liverpool.
  • Led ZeppelinIn August 1968, four musicians gathered in a room below a record store on Gerrard Street in London to play their first song together.
  • Sex PistolsLondon in 1975 was a place of decay and unemployment. John Lydon, then nineteen years old, wore a Pink Floyd T-shirt with the words 'I Hate' handwritten…
  • Black SabbathIn 1968, four musicians met in the industrial city of Birmingham to form a heavy blues rock band. Guitarist Tony Iommi and drummer Bill Ward had previously…