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Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07 - Stuart Sutcliffe was one of the original Beatles.
Most people have never heard of him.
In 1960, he joined the band even though he barely knew how to play bass.
John Lennon convinced him to buy a bass guitar using money from a painting he had sold.
Stuart wasn’t really a musician.
He was an artist.
Quiet, intelligent, painfully cool.
While the other Beatles were still figuring themselves out, Stuart already looked like he belonged on a magazine cover.
The leather jackets.
The sunglasses.
Even the famous “mop top” haircut later copied around the world started with him.
And he helped shape something even bigger:
The name “Beatles.”
In Hamburg, Germany, Stuart fell in love with a photographer named Astrid Kirchherr.
She became one of the first people to photograph the Beatles seriously — the iconic black-and-white images that helped create their early mythology.
But by 1961, Stuart faced a choice: