Stuart Sutcliffe

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Victor Sutcliffe, a Scottish painter and singer best known as the original bass guitarist for the Beatles, died on June 23rd, 1962.

Sutcliffe left the band to pursue his career as a painter, having studied at the Liverpool College of Art.

Sutcliffe and John Lennon are credited with inventing the word "Beetles" because they both adored Buddy Holly's band, the Crickets.

For a long time, the band used this name before Lennon decided to rename it to "The Beatles" from the word beat.

Sutcliffe, who was a founding member of the group, is one of many people referred to as "Fifth Beatle" by some. He met photographer Astrid Kirchherr, to whom he later married when he appeared with the Beatles in Hamburg.

After leaving the Beatles, he joined the Hamburg College of Art, studying under future pop artist Eduardo Paolozzi, who later wrote a study stating that Sutcliffe was one of his best students.

Sutcliffe's paintings, which mainly explored a style similar to abstract expressionism, received other accolades. Sutcliffe noticed severe headaches and acute sensitivity while studying in Germany.

He died in the middle of an art class in April 1962 after complaining of head pains.

German doctors underwent various tests, but were unable to determine the exact cause of his headaches.

He was admitted to the hospital but died in the ambulance on the way after collapsing on Tuesday.

The cause of death was later revealed to be a brain hemorrhage – heavy bleeding in his brain's right ventricle.

Early years

Sutcliffe was Martha's eldest child (1907–1983), a schoolteacher at an infant's' kindergarten, and Charles Sutcliffe (25 May 1905 – 18 March 1966) a senior civil servant. Sutcliffe's father was sent to Liverpool in 1943 to help with wartime duties before he resigned as a ship's engineer, and he was often at sea during his son's early years. Pauline and Joyce, as well as three older half-brothers Joe, Ian, and Charles, as well as three older brothers Joe, Ian, and Charles, and an older half-sister, Mattie, from his father's first marriage to a woman whose name was also Martha.

Sutcliffe was born at the Edinburgh Royal Maternity Hospital and Simpson Memorial Maternity Pavilion in Edinburgh, Scotland, and after his family moved to England, he was born on Aigburth Drive in Liverpool, Liverpool, Scotland. He attended Park View Primary School, Huyton (1946-1951), and Prescot Grammar School from 4 September 1951 to 1956. When Sutcliffe's dad returned home on leave, he treated his son and art college classmate Rod Murray (also Sutcliffe's housemate and best friend), slipping £10 into Sutcliffe's pocket before disappearing for another six months. Charles Sutcliffe was a heavy drinker and physically traumatic to his wife, according to Beatles biographer Philip Norman, who had no idea about him.

Sutcliffe worked as a bin man on the Liverpool Corporation's garbage collection trucks for his first year at the Liverpool College of Art. Bill Harry, a mutual friend, introduced Lennon to Sutcliffe when the three three children were studying at the Liverpool College of Art. Sutcliffe had a "mazing art portfolio" and was a "main" painter and was one of the school's "stars," according to Lennon. He aided Lennon in his art education, as well as others who worked with him when Lennon was required to submit exams.

Sutcliffe rented a flat with Murray at 9 Percy Street, Liverpool, before being evicted and relocated to Hillary Mansions, the home of Margaret Chapman, a fellow art student who competed with Sutcliffe to be the best painter in class. The apartment was located in the rundown neighborhood of Liverpool 8, with no lightbulbs and a mattress on the floor in the corner. In early 1960, Lennon joined Sutcliffe. (Paul McCartney later confessed to being jealous of Sutcliffe's mingling with Lennon, as he had to take a "back seat" to Sutcliffe.)

Sutcliffe and his flatmates painted the rooms yellow and black, which their landlady did not appreciate. On another occasion, the tenants, who wanted to remain warm, arsonated the apartment's furniture.

After meeting Sutcliffe at the Casbah Coffee Club (owned by Pete Best's mother, Mona Best), Lennon and McCartney persuaded Sutcliffe to purchase a Höfner President 500/5 model bass guitar on hire from Frank Hessey's Music Shop.

Sutcliffe was a natural performer in music (his mother had insisted on piano lessons for him since the age of nine), and his father had taught him some chords on the guitar.

Sutcliffe formed Lennon, McCartney, and George Harrison in May 1960 (then known as "the Silver Beatles"). Even though Sutcliffe had never played acous guitar before, his fingers would often bleed during long rehearsals as he had not trained long enough for his fingers to become calloused. He began working as a booking agent for the company, and they often used his Gambier Terrace flat as a rehearsal room.

The People published an article titled "The Beatnik Horror" on Sunday, a photograph taken in the apartment below Sutcliffe's of a teenage Lennon lying on the floor, with Sutcliffe standing by a window. Allan Williams, the group's owner, arranged for the photograph to be taken, and Sutcliffe began to book concerts for the group: Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, and Sutcliffe. The Beatles' second name change occurred in a Renshaw Hall bar when Sutcliffe, Lennon, and Lennon's girlfriend, Cynthia Powell, guessed up names that match Holly's band, the Crickets, and came up with Beetles.

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