Colin Leo Hanton was born on 12 December 1938 and is an English musician, best known as the drummer for the 1950s skiffle band the Quarrymen, lead by a young John Lennon.
10 Facts About Colin Hanton
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Colin Hanton currently plays for the reformed version of the Quarrymen.
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Hanton's mother died of Tuberculosis, when Colin was a child, and he and his siblings moved into their grandparents house.
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Colin Hanton left school and worked trained as a carpenter, before moving to working as an upholster in Speke.
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Colin Hanton was asked to join the nascent band, largely because he had recently purchased a new drum kit.
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Colin Hanton played drums on the Quarrymen's first recordings, a cover of The Crickets' That'll Be the Day and an original In Spite of All the Danger, in 1958.
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Colin Hanton left the Quarrymen after an argument with the rest of the band following a disastrous performance at the Speke Bus Depot Social Club in Wavertree on 1 January 1959.
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In 1997, Colin Hanton reunited with the then-surviving members of The Quarrymen to perform a concert, to commemorate 40 years since the group's formation.
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Colin Hanton was portrayed by actor Sam Wilmott in the 2009 biopic Nowhere Boy.
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Colin Hanton continued to work for the Guy Rogers carpentry company until it shut down in 1979.