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We had drunk a few beers during the interval and an argument started on the way home on the bus. I got off to catch another bus to take me home to
Woolton and somehow or other that was that, they never contacted me again to ask me to play. I saw John a few times and he told me that they had got a
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to perform a concert, to commemorate 40 years since the group's formation. Shortly after, they embarked on a tour which took place in the United
Kingdom, United States, Germany, and Japan, among many others. Hanton has participated on all Quarrymen releases since; including their three albums;
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Hanton married his wife, Joan, in 1965. Together, they had two children. Hanton continued to work for the Guy Rogers carpentry company until it shut down in 1979. Afterwards, he opened his own upholstery business, which he still runs today. Colin still lives in
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and Rod Davis. He was asked to join the nascent band, largely because he had recently purchased a new drum kit. Hanton played drums on the
Quarrymen's first recordings, a cover of
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in 1950, when Colin was a child, and he and his siblings moved into their grandparents' house. Colin left school and worked trained as a carpenter, before moving to working as an
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on 1 January 1959. The band had gone through several line-up changes until
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