I DON’T WANT TO SPOIL THE PARTY
147 Dinas Lane, Huyton, March 8, 1958
George Harrison (15), John Lennon (17), Paul McCartney (15) warm up while wedding guest Dennis Littler sups some stout. “They’re just about to take the stage,” says Mike McCartney. “Or rather, move along to the bit of the back parlour where they were going to play.”
JOHN, PAUL, GEORGE… and Dennis? It doesn’t trip off the tongue, but that was the scene immortalised in Kodachrome as a slimmeddown Quarrymen limbered up for a set in the back parlour of 147 Dinas Lane, Huyton, the home of Paul’s Uncle Harry and Auntie Gin, on March 8, 1958.
“It was a wedding reception for cousin Ian and his wife Jackie,” explains Mike McCartney, the picture taker. “Uncle Harry…