What makes Stuart Sutcliffe important to the Beatles? He was a founding member, sure---and he came up with the name. And the haircut. And the clothes. This much is common knowledge---and those are noteworthy contributions, but their relevance is minor compared to Sutcliffe's real significance.

Though there's lots of gushing about the crazy, transformational 1960's, the '60's were just the orgasmic release of what was percolating at the end of the '40's and throughout the '50's. That's when rock and roll scared the bejeezus out of parents who saw their hopes for respectable, dutiful offspring...

The campaign, started by Gene Grimes of Liverpool to name Liverpool streets after Pete Best, Stuart Sutcliffe and Brian Epstein. Liverpool now has Pete Best Drive and Casbah Close, plus the Epstein Theatre. Now we only need to recognise Stuart's contribution to Liverpool

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Stuart's Bio:
Stuart Fergusson Victor Sutcliffe (23 June 1940 – 10 April 1962) was an English artist and musician, best known as the original bass player of The Beatles. Sutcliffe left the band...

Sutcliffe's father, Charles Sutcliffe (1905 – 18 March 1966), was a senior civil servant, who moved to Liverpool to help with wartime work in 1943, and then signed on as a ship's engineer, and so was often at sea during his son's early years. His mother, Millie, was a schoolteacher at an infant's school.2 Sutcliffe had two younger sisters, Pauline and Joyce.34

Sutcliffe was born at the Simpson Memorial Maternity Pavilion Hospital in Edinburgh, Scotland, and after his family moved south,5 he was brought up at 37 Aigburth Drive in Liverpool.6 He attended Park View Primary School, Huyton (1946–1950),...

From about early 1960 to mid-1961, Stuart Sutcliffe was the bass player in the Beatles, leaving the group before they even made their first recordings as Tony Sheridan's backing band. Sutcliffe never recorded in a studio with the Beatles (although he is probably on a lengthy bootleg tape of rehearsals from around 1960), and all of the evidence, from recollections of other Beatles and others who saw them in the early '60s, indicates that his musical talents were marginal at best. He was considered a brilliant and promising young artist, but died of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 22, not...