Fifty years ago, a group of English youths gathered at a primitive West German recording facility in Hamburg. Both the bassist and drummer from Liverpool's Rory Storm and the Hurricanes joined forces with three members of a rival hometown group, the Beatles, to lay down takes of the standards "Summertime" and "Fever." Though the recording has become lost to history, the strange alchemy produced for the first time that day has not. On Saturday, October 15, 1960, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr recorded together for the first time.Fifty years ago, a group of English youths gathered at a primitive West German recording facility in Hamburg. Both the bassist and drummer from Liverpool's Rory Storm and the Hurricanes joined forces with three members of a rival hometown group, the Beatles, to lay down takes of the standards "Summertime" and "Fever." Though the recording has become lost to history, the strange alchemy produced for the first time that day has not. On Saturday, October 15, 1960, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr recorded together for the first time.