Stuart Sutcliffe Beatles Hamburg
Sutcliffe and john lennon are credited with inventing the name beetles as they both liked buddy hollys band the crickets.
Stuart sutcliffe beatles hamburg. Stuart sutcliffe great bands cool bands leica liverpool guitar guy guitar tabs beatles one brylcreem the tragic life of stuart sutcliffe the fifth beatle a talented painter sutcliffe played bass in an early incarnation of the beatles. Stuart sutcliffe and astrid kircherr with the beatles in hamburg. Stuart sutcliffe was an artist and the beatles original bassist in liverpool and hamburg. Backbeat is a 1994 anglo german independent drama film directed by iain softley.
Sutcliffe left the band to pursue his career as a painter having previously attended the liverpool college of art. His paintings were highly acclaimed and he is often referred to as the fifth beatle. Stuart sutcliffe leaves hamburg friday 20 january 1961 travel no comments several weeks after george harrison paul mccartney pete best and john lennon had returned to england from germany stuart sutcliffe flew back on this day. Sutcliffe played with the beatles in hamburg where he met photographer astrid kirchherr to whom he was later engaged.
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. The band used this name for a while until lennon decided to change the name to the beatles from the wo. The one person who didnt witness the meteoric success of the beatles was sutcliffe who had given them so much of their early panache. He had been suffering from increasingly severe headaches and blackouts since settling in hamburg with astrid kirchherr his german fiancee.
The film focuses primarily on the relationship between stuart sutcliffe stephen dorff and john lennon ian hart and also with sutcliffes german girlfriend astrid kirchherr sheryl lee. Stuart fergusson victor sutcliffe was a scottish painter and musician better known as the original bass guitarist of the english rock band the beatles. Harrison had been deported on 21 november followed by mccartney and best nine days later. The cause of these remained uncertain though sutcliffe believed they were a consequence of overwork.