For John Lennon, he was an older student to look up to and emulate; for his teachers, he was going to be a significant visual artist; for most of us, he was the fifth Beatle. This promise was suddenly cut short when Stuart Sutcliffe died in 1962 at the age of twenty-two in Hamburg, Germany, where he was studying to become an artist. His first trip to Hamburg in 1960 came when he was playing with school friend John Lennon and his band. Lennon met Stucliffe at the Liverpool Regional College of Art. Sutcliffe was a năm ahead of Lennon, and already developing a reputation. In fact, when he sold...
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