A major new TV drama about the formative years of The Beatles has started production in Germany and Liverpool. Hamburg Days ...

Stuart Sutcliffe, a British painter and the original bass guitarist for the Beatles, died unexpectedly in 1962 ahead of his 22nd birthday. In the decades since, his memory has been kept alive by a ...

Sutcliffe was the original bass player for The Beatles from 1960 – 1961. Sutcliffe ultimately left the band to pursue his art, before his untimely death in 1962 of a brain hemorrhage. He didn’t leave ...

The Beatles experienced tragedy since the early days of the band. The deaths of John Lennon and George Harrison rocked Beatles fans, and their survivors, but The Beatles lost a key collaborator in ...

Rhys Mannion will play John Lennon, Ellis Murphy is Paul McCartney, Harvey Brett will play George Harrison and Louis Landau ...

The Beatles’ original lineup was John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Stuart Sutcliffe. They eventually added drummer Pete Best to the mix, but the four musicians created the band. They ...

Casting for Hamburg Days, a major new six-part drama charting The Beatles’ formative years has been announced with a ...

Lennon and Sutcliffe met as students at the Liverpool College of Art. Sutcliffe was a talented painter who helped Lennon with his classes. In exchange, Lennon taught his friend about music. After ...