Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #535714 in Books
• Published on: 2002-09-06
• Binding: Paperback
• 251 pages

Synopsis
The poignant memoir of forgotten Beatle Stuart Sutcliffe, and a remarkable chronicle of the early days of the world's most influential pop group 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 history and now she is ready to tell the real story. In so doing she sheds new light on their formative period - the rivalry with McCartney, how George Harrison tried to keep the peace, the truth about Stuart's intense relationship with Lennon and why Lennon was haunted by guilt over her brother's death. And she describes what it was like for those like herself and Cynthia Lennon who have had no choice but to live with the Beatles all their lives.

Customer Reviews

Top Book
Top book, considering they found heaps to say about a kid who died when he was 21. They cover lots of topics about him and his family, friends and lover! Lovin' the Beatles stories!

good book.
Finally got a chance to buy this book, full of great information about stuart sutcliffe and john,paul and george.
Great photos in the book,worth buying.

A happy and sad story
I have read every Lennon biography available.I found this book very interesting because it was written by an insider of the early Beatles.
The story of Stu and his artwork was wonderful and I found the relationship between Lennon and Stu very believable..it is pretty well known now to the public Lennon may have had bisexual tendancies.I enjoyed the many letters in the book written by Stu to his family...he had a very painful death and his artwork will always live on in all our hearts. I believe also Lennon's temper had to do with Stu's death...but I know by what I have read John felt very guilty of his temper and tried to contol it on his own terms. John and Stu are together...and now George is there with them...probably rehashing all those old times...Thanks Ms Sutcliffe for a wonderful story.