'WE YOUNG ARTISTS ARE LIKE YOUNG SAILORS; UNLESS WE ENCOUNTER ROUGH SEAS AND ARE BUFFETED BY THE WINDS, WE'LL NOT BECOME REAL SAILORS. THERE IS NO MERCY FOR US---EVERYONE HAS TO GO THROUGH A PERIOD OF WORRY AND STRUGGLE IF HE WANTS TO GO INTO DEEP WATER."---Stuart Sutcliffe
I was bored so I create this I-dont-know-how-to-name-it thing. Feel free to share it.
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upallnightwithstu——Who had the Kodak, huh?!
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Words cannot describe how much I adore this picture.
Stuart at the fireplace in Percy Street (with one of his artworks above). Photo by Rod Murray.
This is such a great photo
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Stuart Sutcliffe’s 45 Rpm Hamburg Record Collection
…”inscribed in ink by Astrid…’i love you my beauti! for ever and ever and ever’…
Stuart Sutcliffe’s 45 Rpm Hamburg Record Collection, several annotated, comprising Elvis Presley ‘O Sole Mio’ the picture sleeve inscribed in ballpoint pen, ‘Hope you like it as much as I do. Love Stuart xxxx, ‘Wild In The Country’ the picture sleeve inscribed in ink by Astrid Kirchherr ‘i love ‘you my beauti! for ever and ever and ever’, ‘Love Me Tender’, ‘Are You Lonesome Tonight’, ‘Can’t Help Falling In Love’, ‘Wooden Heart’, ‘I Need Your Love Tonight’, ‘I Got Stung’ and ‘Surrender’, The Everly Brothers’ ‘Always It’s You’, the label inscribed in ink by Astrid Kirchherr Astrid to Stuart i love Stuart for ever’, Duane Eddy ‘Lost Friend’ in picture sleeve, Chuck Berry ‘Sweet - Little Sixteen’, Tony Williams Sleepless Nights’, Ricky Nelson ‘Just A Little Too Much’, Ray Charles ‘I Can’t Stop Loving You’, The Omegas ‘So How Come’, Danny Williams ‘Moon River’, Connie Francis ‘Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool’ in Patti Page picture sleeve, and The Highwaymen ‘Michael’, the majority all in slip sleeves, but not all original, and others comprising The Beatles ‘Love Me Do’ and ‘Please Please Me’ and ‘My Bonnie’ by Tony Sheridan and The Beat Brothers.
—-From Sotheby’s auction August 1984
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Stuart was quoted in one of his diaries he made whilst he was in Hamburg with the Beatles:
“I can’t get to sleep tonight. Rain is endlessly pouring into paper cups, lain out across the room. I often wonder whether…I could make a tune with them if they were put in a certain order.”
“Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup, they slither as they pass, they slip away across the universe..” - Across the Universe, John Lennon
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There’s a scene in the new film ‘Backbeat’ about the early life of the Beatles that moves Cynthia Lennon, the ex-wife of Beatle John Lennon, almost to tears.
It’s a simple moment. John, Stuart Sutcliffe, Stuart’s German girlfriend Astrid Kirchherr and Cynthia are larking around on a beach near Hamburg. They romp in the sand, running and playing like overgrown children, so young and exuberant, so full of life it brings a lump to Cynthia’s throat every time she sees it.
“That scene takes me straight back to a wonderful day we really did spend on the beach just like that,” says Cynthia, “and I remembered how young and carefree we were. We had no fears or worries. No thought of the horrors life could bring. We were so innocent.”
Watching the film she couldn’t help reflecting that unknown to them all that day, those two happy, vibrant young men were destined for for tragically early deaths. Stuart from a brain haemorrhage, John from an assassin’s bullet.
“We lived for the moment back then,” recalls Cynthia. “And we lived life to the hilt. Which is just as well. I’m so glad we did.”
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Paul: I can sense it lads, there’s a camera nearby!
goingintodeepwater——thanks for saying what I always restrain myself from blurting out.
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Great! The idea is to have the very best reproductions of Stuart’s work. I thank you!
Early Beatles set list, written out (it looks like) by Stuart. :) “Winston’s Walk”!
