Liverpool, U.K.-based guitarist Ken Brown was found dead at age 70 in his Essex apartment on Monday. Brown played with the Beatles greats John Lennon and Paul McCartney in their early band, The Quarrymen.
Brown had originally brought John, Paul and George Harrison together at the West Derby Casbah Coffee Club to fill a residency spot in 1959. He went on to play guitar with the band until a disagreement over money led him to leave the group.
Brown then approached Pete Best, the Beatles original drummer, and they played together in a band called the Blackjacks until Best was asked to join the Beatles' groundbreaking tour to Hamburg, Germany.
Brown suffered from emphysema and was found in his apartment after a concerned relative requested that authorities investigate. It is thought that he may have died five days earlier.
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