John Duff Lowe, who has died aged 81, was a pianist on the first record that Paul McCartney, John Lennon and George Harrison made together, in 1958, as the Quarrymen. Despite his rock pedigree, Duff, as he was affectionately known, spent most of his life working in banking and financial services.
His piano playing on McCartney and Harrison’s song In Spite of All the Danger featured at the start of Peter Jackson’s 2022 documentary The Beatles: Get Back. The other song on the privately made recording was a cover of Buddy Holly’s That’ll Be the Day, and both feature in the Beatles album Anthology 1.
