High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Quarrymen (also written as "The Quarry Men") are a British skiffle and rock `n` roll group, initially formed in Liverpool in 1956, that eventually evolved into The Beatles in 1960. Originally consisting of John Lennon and several schoolfriends, The Quarrymen took their name from a line in the school song of Quarry Bank High School which Lennon and most of the other original group members attended. Lennon`s mother, Julia Lennon, taught her son to play the banjo and then showed Lennon and Eric Griffiths how to tune their guitars in a similar way to the banjo, and taught them simple chords and songs.