Before The Beatles were the Fab Four, the band had five members: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Pete Best, and Stuart Sutcliffe. Best and Sutcliffe left the group before they achieved ...

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 ...

Before The Beatles were a quartet, band members John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Pete Best, and Stuart Sutcliffe traveled to Hamburg to play a residency. Their days in Hamburg were ...

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 ...

Sutcliffe and Lennon met at art school in Liverpool. While Sutcliffe helped Lennon with his classwork, Lennon taught his friend about music. Cynthia believed Lennon was a positive force in Sutcliffe’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Artworks and Beatles ephemera including an incomplete novel about Lennon among work by visual artist and bass player who died aged 21 The archive of Stuart Sutcliffe, the original bassist with the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. The Beatles are known as Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George ...

Stuart Sutcliffe, the late artist and early bassist for the Beatles, will receive an art showcase from Harper’s Books in East Hampton, New York on August 10th (running until October 14th). The ...