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  The Beatles were a highly successful and popular British rock band from Liverpool, England. They are widely regarded as the most influential rock band in history and are known world-wide. The Beatles continue to be a major influence on music well into the 21st century, having sold over a billion records overall. The Beatles paved the way for new musical styles and influenced cultural revolutions in the 1960s and 1970s. The members of the most famous line-up of The Beatles were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.
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Stuart Fergusson Victor Sutcliffe (23 June 1940 – 10 April 1962) was an artist, and the original bassist of The Beatles for two years. Sutcliffe earned praise for his paintings, which mostly explored a style related to Abstract Expressionism. Sutcliffe is one of the group of people sometimes referred to as "the fifth Beatle".
Sutcliffe and John Lennon are credited with coming up with the name for the Beatles, as they both liked Buddy Holly's band, the Crickets. Sutcliffe played with the Beatles in Hamburg, where he met photographer Astrid Kirchherr, to whom he was later engaged. He enrolled in the Hamburg College of Art after leaving The Beatles, and studied under future pop artist Eduardo Paolozzi. Sutcliffe suffered from debilitating headaches while he was studying in Hamburg, and although tests were carried out by German doctors, no reason could be found for his worsening condition. He died of a brain haemorrhage on the way to the hospital in April 1962, with Kirchherr sitting alongside him in the ambulance. |
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One of George Harrison's guitars in the Hard Rock Café, San Francisco, California Image credit: Florian Weingarten on Flikr. Uploaded to Wikimedia Commons by Heynoun. More information |
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Due to John Lennon's relationship with Yoko Ono, divorce proceedings had begun between him and his first wife, Cynthia Lennon. Paul McCartney went to visit Julian Lennon and Cynthia, bearing a single rose. He came up with a song called "Hey Jules" in the car, which developed into "Hey Jude" – at the time, it was the longest song to ever reach number 1. |
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