George played lead guitar and sometimes sang lead vocals for the Beatles. Like his future bandmates, Harrison was not born rich. By his own admission, Harrison was not a great student, and what little interest he had in his studies was swept away by his discovery of the electric guitar and American rock and roll. As Harrison later described it, he had something of an "epiphany" at age 12 or 13 while riding his bicycle in his neighborhood and first smelled Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel," which had been playing since a nearby house. . By the age of 14, Harrison, whose early rock heroes included Carl Perkins, Little Richard and Buddy Holly, had bought his first guitar and taught himself a few chords. John Winston Lennon was born on October 9, 1940 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, during a German air raid in World War II. At the age of 4, Lennon's parents separated and he ended up living with his aunt Mimi. Lennon was shocked when Julia was fatally struck by a car driven by a police officer in July 1958. Her death was one of the most traumatic events of his life. Elvis Presley was Lennon's inspiration to create a band called the Quarrymen. "I don't think you could have separated four very strong people like them," Ono said later, "even if you tried. So there must have been something. That