
Beatles' Shadow
Stuart Sutcliffe is the most famous contender for the crown of ''fifth Beatle''. One of the founding members, a close friend of Lennon, he left the band after their Hamburg sojourn in order to pursue his promising career as an artist, dying shortly thereafter of a brain haemorrhage. For years his sister Pauline has tried to protect his memory against the Beatles'' need to sanitise their early hist...
Stuart Sutcliffe is the most famous contender for the crown of ''fifth Beatle''. One of the founding members, a close friend of Lennon, he left the band after their Hamburg sojourn in order to pursue his promising career as an artist, dying shortly thereafter of a brain haemorrhage. For years his sister Pauline has tried to protect his memory against the Beatles'' need to sanitise their early hist...