how many times have we PonderedAbout those rare
and improbable moments when a chance encounter
with a stranger marked a turning point in our lives?

when we look back, these first meetings seem magical,
synchronistic; and we are likely to wonder what course
our lives might have taken had we just walked past that
someone

one such life-changing meeting is the subject of the
video below; here, Pete Shotton of The Quarrymen
tells of the time John Lennon first met Paul McCartney



the soundtrack of the above video is an excerpt from
Westwood One's The Lost Lennon Tapes