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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 · 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.
Oct 9, 2021 · There was a time when Stuart Sutcliffe, before he quit and tragically died, made the Beatles a five-piece band. So who was the fifth Beatle? He got involved with the group when Lennon and McCartney convinced him to buy a bass guitar.
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 ...
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.
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”.
Feb 8, 2024 · Stuart Sutcliffe was an actual Beatle not just before Ringo Starr, but before even Pete Best. 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.
Apr 10, 2017 · The German photographer and friend of the Beatles revealed that her fiancé (and former Beatles bass player) Stuart Sutcliffe had died. No one was more shocked than John Lennon, who reportedly...
The Official Stuart Sutcliffe Estate manages the Stuart Sutcliffe Art and Artefact Collections of Stuart Sutcliffe, the Scottish painter and musician who is known as the fifth Beatle (but he was really the fourth). Stuart is credited with naming and styling the Beatles.
Frozen into myth by an early death in 1962, the artist and musician Stuart Sutcliffe is best known for his brief membership, between January and December 1960, of an early line-up of The Beatles.
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