{"id":8027,"date":"2015-08-17T09:05:11","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anastasiasuen.com\/?p=8027"},"modified":"2015-11-11T10:33:58","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T16:33:58","slug":"fab-four-friends-the-boys-who-became-the-beatles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/17\/fab-four-friends-the-boys-who-became-the-beatles\/","title":{"rendered":"Fab Four Friends: The Boys Who Became the Beatles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/080509458X\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=080509458X&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=kidswrite-20&amp;linkId=6PAPXPKZSAJRXWV2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8028\" src=\"http:\/\/anastasiasuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/FabFourFriends.jpg\" alt=\"FabFourFriends\" width=\"189\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/080509458X\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=080509458X&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=kidswrite-20&amp;linkId=6PAPXPKZSAJRXWV2\">Fab Four Friends: The Boys Who Became the Beatles<\/a><br \/>\nby Susanna Reich (Author) and Adam Gustavson (Illustrator)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> In 1957 in Liverpool, England, a young lad named John Lennon and his band played music at a local church fair. In the audience was Paul McCartney, who liked what he heard and soon joined the group. Paul&#8217;s friend George Harrison kept showing up at rehearsals until the older boys finally let him in. Eventually they found the perfect drummer, Ringo Starr, and the perfect name: The Beatles. Four ordinary boys growing up amid the rubble of postwar England found music to be a powerful, even life-saving, force and became the bestselling band in history.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong> John attacked the guitar, strumming as fast as he could. He didn&#8217;t give a fig about wrong notes. With some of his mates, he organized a skiffle group called the Quarrymen, pounding out souped-up folk songs and some rock and &#8216;n&#8217; roll. They had no idea how to play, but they loved making noise&#8211;<em>lots<\/em> of noise! Rehearsing in Mum&#8217;s bathroom, the sound bounced off the tiles. <em>Bam, BOOM, bam, BOOM!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/anastasiasuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/FabFourFriends2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8029\" src=\"http:\/\/anastasiasuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/FabFourFriends2-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"FabFourFriends2\" width=\"660\" height=\"880\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/anastasiasuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/steamlogo_whitebg_SM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7867\" src=\"http:\/\/anastasiasuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/steamlogo_whitebg_SM-300x108.png\" alt=\"steamlogo_whitebg_SM\" width=\"300\" height=\"108\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Quarrymen - That&#039;ll Be The Day\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R4_LMMKq8Hw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Listen to the The Quarrymen sing Buddy Holly&#8217;s song, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/R4_LMMKq8Hw\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;That&#8217;ll Be The Day&#8221;<\/a> on July 14th, 1958.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/anastasiasuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/nonfiction.monday.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6943\" src=\"http:\/\/anastasiasuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/nonfiction.monday.jpg\" alt=\"Nonfiction Monday\" width=\"158\" height=\"111\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/nonfictionmonday.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nonfiction Monday!<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Blog Tour for <em>Fab Four Friends: The Boys Who Became the Beatles<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Monday, August 17<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/asuen.com\/\">Booktalking<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Tuesday, August 18 <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/shelf-employed.blogspot.com\/\">Shelf-Employed<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Wednesday, August 19 <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unleashingreaders.com\/\">UnleashingReaders.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Thursday, August 20<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/dulemba.blogspot.com\/\">Elizabeth Dulemba<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Friday, August 21<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/mauriceonbooks.wordpress.com\/\">Maurice on Books<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Tuesday, August 25<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/kidsbiographer.com\/\">Kidsbiographer&#8217;s Blog<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Wednesday, August 26<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.gailgauthier.com\/\">Gail Gauthier<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Thursday, August 27 <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tinanicholscouryblog.com\/\">Tales from the Rushmore Kid<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Friday, August 28 <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/jamarattigan.com\/\">Alphabet Soup<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Visit each blog tour stop!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!-- Copyright (c)2006 Site Meter -->Copyright \u00a9 2015 <a href=\"http:\/\/asuen.com\" target=\"_blank\">Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved.<br \/>\n<!-- Site Meter --><a href=\"http:\/\/s31.sitemeter.com\/stats.asp?site=s31asuen\" target=\"_top\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s31.sitemeter.com\/meter.asp?site=s31asuen\" alt=\"Site Meter\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fab Four Friends: The Boys Who Became the Beatles by Susanna Reich (Author) and Adam Gustavson (Illustrator) Booktalk: In 1957 in Liverpool, England, a young lad named John Lennon and his band played music at a local church fair. In the audience was Paul McCartney, who liked what he heard and soon joined the group. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/17\/fab-four-friends-the-boys-who-became-the-beatles\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fab Four Friends: The Boys Who Became the Beatles<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,20,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-booktalks","category-nonfiction-monday","category-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8132,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8027\/revisions\/8132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}