Sutcliffe and Lennon met at art school in Liverpool. While Sutcliffe helped Lennon with his classwork, Lennon taught his friend about music. Cynthia believed Lennon was a positive force in Sutcliffe’s ...

Each of the Beatles was well acquainted with John Lennon’s vicious streak. Lennon had a temper and could be biting in his treatment of others. He could even be callous towards people he liked. In the ...

If you were to ask John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison what made the band as great as it was — and it’s a question drummer Ringo Starr would be able to answer from his own experience — the ...

LONDON -- A biography of the "Fifth Beatle" paints a revealing portrait of the formative years of the world's most famous pop group and sheds new light on Stuart Sutcliffe's stormy relationship with ...

Ye Cracke Before the Beatles gained worldwide notoriety for their music, they were very much like the average city-dweller; just some art school yuppies who could often be found sipping on a pint at ...

Sutcliffe’s story has become a perennial, not limited to Beatle book shelves. Granada TV’s Midnight Angel covered it in 1990. The BBC’s Stuart Sutcliffe - The Lost Beatle did so in 2005. The film ...

When The Beatles needed a bassist after Stuart Sutcliffe left the band, Paul McCartney took the job because nobody else wanted to volunteer. After all, it wasn’t exactly the glory spot in the lineup ...