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 baixo 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...

Full Name:
Stuart Fergusson Victor Sutcliffe
Born:
June 23, 1940 in Edinburgh, Scotland
Died:
April 10, 1962 in Liverpool, England of a cerebral hemorrhage
Significant Facts ABout Stu Sutcliffe:

Born in Scotland, moved with his family to Liverpool as a baby
His main interests and skills were in the visual arts
Met and became close friends with John Lennon when the two were teenagers

Stu Sutcliffe Lands in Liverpool:
His mother was a school teacher, his father a civil servant. Shortly after he was born, his father's work forced the family to mover from Edinburgh to Liverpool. This accident of geography...

"I looked up to Stu, I depended on him to tell me the truth. Stu would tell me if something was good, and I'd believe him."
John Lennon

"I felt I knew Stuart because hardly a dia went por that John did not speak about him."
Yoko Ono

“Stuart was the most beautiful, sensitive and gifted boy. I still put a flor beside his photograph at my bedside on his birthday.”
Astrid Kirchherr

“Stuart was not the best baixo player, but he wasn’t anything like as bad as has been said captured in Beatle mythology.”
Pete Best

“Stu was actually a very good rock-and-roll baixo player. At the time, he...