In 1960, The Beatles traveled to Hamburg to play a residency. Here, they met Astrid Kirchherr, a student who offered to photograph the band. She admitted that she had ulterior motives for this. “I ...

The Beatles’ original lineup was John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Stuart Sutcliffe. They eventually added drummer Pete Best to the mix, but the four musicians created the band. They ...

McCartney and Harrison got to know Sutcliffe through Lennon. They went to art school together and formed a tight bond. Lennon had been working with McCartney and Harrison in The Quarry Men, and the ...

Though Stuart Sutcliffe was only briefly a Beatle, he made a lasting impact on John Lennon. The two met in school and quickly became close friends. This may have come as a surprise to their peers, as ...

Before The Beatles were household names, they had several band members who would not stay with the group through their fame. The band fired drummer Pete Best, but they had bigger problems with the ...

The Beatles experienced tragedy since the early days of the band. The deaths of John Lennon and George Harrison rocked Beatles fans, and their survivors, but The Beatles lost a key collaborator in ...

In the early 1960s, John Lennon and Stuart Sutcliffe began courting the attention of Allan Williams, a Liverpool promoter and booking agent. He didn’t initially think The Beatles were very good, but ...

John Lennon wasn't close to many people while he was growing up. Cynthia Lennon shared why Stuart Sutcliffe was so good for him. Sutcliffe and Lennon met at art school in Liverpool. While Sutcliffe ...

Sutcliffe was the original bass player for The Beatles from 1960 – 1961. Sutcliffe ultimately left the band to pursue his art, before his untimely death in 1962 of a brain hemorrhage. He didn’t leave ...

Stuart Sutcliffe, a British painter and the original bass guitarist for the Beatles, died unexpectedly in 1962 ahead of his 22nd birthday. In the decades since, his memory has been kept alive by a ...

Lennon and Sutcliffe met as students at the Liverpool College of Art. Sutcliffe was a talented painter who helped Lennon with his classes. In exchange, Lennon taught his friend about music. After ...