Search results
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.
Feb 8, 2024 · He was immortalised in the 1994 film Backbeat, and below we take a closer look at the life, work and tragedy of Stuart Sutcliffe. Where was Stuart Sutcliffe born and where did he grow up? Beatles manager Allan Williams, his wife Beryl, Lord Woodbine, Stuart Sutcliffe, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Pete Best. Picture: Getty Images
Apr 29, 2022 · Stuart Sutcliffe was an art prodigy who joined the Beatles as their bassist in 1959 and helped them come up with their name. He left the band in 1961 to focus on his art career and moved to Germany, where he met and married photographer Astrid Kirchherr, but died of a brain aneurysm in 1962.
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.
- Kara Goldfarb
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 ...
- Ted Widmer
People also ask
How did Stuart Sutcliffe die?
Why did Stuart Sutcliffe leave the Beatles?
Who is Stuart Sutcliffe?
Did the Beatles exist without Stuart Sutcliffe?
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”.
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).
