Colin Hanton


Colin Leo Hanton is a British musician who was a drummer for The Quarrymen—the band which would later evolve into The Beatles.

Biography and career

Hanton was in an early line-up of the band from summer 1956 along with John Lennon, Eric Griffiths, Pete Shotton and Rod Davis, and stayed with the band through several line-up changes until January 1959.
Hanton was working as an apprentice upholsterer when he was asked to join the nascent band, largely because he had recently purchased a new drum kit. Many of the band's early practice sessions took place in Hanton's parents' house. He 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.
In 1997, Hanton joined the revived Quarrymen with other original members: Rod Davis, Len Garry, Pete Shotton and Eric Griffiths, who died in 2005. John "Duff" Lowe, original Quarrymen pianist, also plays with the group occasionally.