John Lennon Stuart Sutcliffe Paintings
Sutcliffe and john lennon are credited with inventing the name beetles as they both liked buddy hollys band the crickets.
John lennon stuart sutcliffe paintings. Stuart fergusson victor sutcliffe was a scottish painter and musician better known as the original bass guitarist of the english rock band the beatles. The sister of stuart sutcliffe the fifth beatle is to make public startling new evidence that strengthens her claim that his death was caused by a kick to the head from john lennonpauline. In july 1960 the people newspaper ran an article entitled the beatnik horror. 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.
A close friend and fellow art school student with john lennon stuart sutcliffe was invited to join the beatles as bass player for a series of gigs in hamburg in 1960. John lennon george harrison pete best paul mccartney stuart sutcliffe. Within a little over two years best would be kicked out of the band and sutcliffe would be dead. The official stuart sutcliffe estate manages all stuart sutcliffe art works and archival material pertaining to stuart sutcliffe the scottish painter and musician best known as the original bass guitarist for the beatles.
Stu sutcliffe was one of the original members of the beatles and a talented abstract expressionist artist. Thats how on january 1960 johns art school friend stuart sutcliffe joined the group on bass guitar. Stuarts passion for his art led him to leave the band and concentrate on his painting staying on in hamburg with fiancee astrid kirchherr. Sutcliffe lived at 9 percy street in liverpool before moving to 3 gambier terrace with fellow art student margaret chapman.
He chose his passion for painting above being a beatle and left the group to devote himself to his art career. Sutcliffe left the band to pursue his career as a painter having previously attended the liverpool college of art. Not long after he died of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of twenty one. A talented fellow student of john lennons at the liverpool college of art stuart sutcliffe 1940 1962 played the bass in the first incarnation of the beatles.
Stuart is credited with naming and styling the beatles. The band used this name for a while until lennon decided to change the name to the beatles from the wo. In early 1960 lennon moved into the flat and he and sutcliffe painted the rooms yellow and black. He was the original bass guitarist at johns prmpting and john lennons best friend.
A friend of john lennon from art school he became the bass player for the new band then known as the silver beatles.