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Stuart Fergusson Victor Sutcliffe (23 June 1940 – 10 April 1962) was a British painter and musician best known as the original bass guitarist of the Beatles. Sutcliffe left the band to pursue his career as a painter, having previously attended the Liverpool College of Art.
Apr 29, 2022 · Evening Standard/Getty Images. On April 10, 1962, Stuart Sutcliffe, then only 21 years old, died in the arms of his fiancee, Astrid Kirchherr, while on the way to the hospital in Hamburg. His official cause of death was listed as cerebral paralysis caused by bleeding in the right ventricle of the brain.
Mar 27, 2022 · Ted Widmer writes about Stuart Sutcliffe, an early member of the Beatles whose spectral image in the band’s lore has been illuminated by the British writer Mark Lewisohn, whose book “Tune In ...
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Oct 9, 2021 · By Kara Goldfarb. Published October 9, 2021. Updated November 9, 2021. There was a time when Stuart Sutcliffe — before he quit and tragically died in 1962 — made the Beatles an actual five-piece band. Amongst Beatle fandom, there’s a lot of talk about if there was ever a fifth Beatle, and if so who was it?
- Kara Goldfarb
Feb 8, 2024 · A Liverpool-raised Scot who moved to Germany, he played a formative role in the band's earliest years and their crucial early residencies in Hamburg. He was immortalised in the 1994 film Backbeat, and below we take a closer look at the life, work and tragedy of Stuart Sutcliffe.
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Mar 14, 2008 · Stuart Sutcliffe was an artist and The Beatles' original bassist in Liverpool and Hamburg. His paintings were highly acclaimed, and he is often referred to as "the fifth Beatle".
Apr 8, 2019 · Stuart Sutcliffe, the brilliant young painter who was a bass guitarist with The Beatles in their early period, died on this day of a brain haemorrhage. He had been suffering from increasingly severe headaches and blackouts since settling in Hamburg with Astrid Kirchherr, his German fiancée.
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