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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LONDON -- A biography of the "Fifth Beatle" paints a revealing portrait of the formative years of the world's most famous pop group and sheds new light on Stuart Sutcliffe's stormy relationship with ...

Sutcliffe’s story has become a perennial, not limited to Beatle book shelves. Granada TV’s Midnight Angel covered it in 1990. The BBC’s Stuart Sutcliffe - The Lost Beatle did so in 2005. The film ...