Jone Lennon was playing wtth his band, The Quarrymen, at a church fair when Paul McCartney frist heard him. Paul loved the music and went to speak to John. At that time, in May 1957, John was studying at music college. Paul wasn't in a band but he was writing songs. Soon Paul joined the band and the two young men became close friends. Thay met after school every afternoon and wrote songs together. Thay wrote some of their hit songs when they were only eighteen