Stuart Sutcliffe Death
His sister pauline sutcliffe has claimed that her brothers brain hemorrhage was the result of a fight with john lennon a few months before he died during which the songwriter beat him up.
Stuart sutcliffe death. He died the same year at the age of. Stuart sutcliffe died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital from a ruptured aneurysm. The cause of death was an aneurysm after bleeding in the right ventricle of his brain. And the proof is in the archive she is about to auction.
He had been suffering from increasingly severe headaches and blackouts since settling in hamburg with astrid kirchherr his german fiancee. Sutcliffe left the band to pursue his career as a painter having previously attended the liverpool college of art. To this day the reason for sutcliffes aneurysm is unclear. The cause of these remained uncertain though sutcliffe believed they were a consequence of overwork.
10 apr 1962 aged 21 hamburg mitte hamburg mitte hamburg germany. Stuart fergusson victor sutcliffe. Edinburgh city of edinburgh scotland. 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 brain haemorrhage that led to stuart sutcliffes death was caused by his closest friend claims the sister of the former bass player. Stuart sutcliffe was a founding member of the quarrymen who later became the beatles but quit in 1961 before they hit the big time to pursue a career in art. There is no evidence that stu experienced progressive deterioration. Stuart fergusson victor sutcliffe 23 june 1940 10 april 1962 was a scottish painter and musician better known as the original bass guitarist of the english rock band the beatles.