"the flat's furniture. After talking to Sutcliffe one night at the Casbah Coffee Club (owned by Pete Best's mother, Mona Best), Lennon and McCartney persuaded Sutcliffe to buy a Höfner President 500/5 model bass guitar on hire-purchase from Frank Hessey's Music Shop. Sutcliffe was versed in music: he had sung in the local church choir in Huyton, his mother had insisted on piano lessons for him since the age of nine, he had played bugle in the Air Training Corps, and his father had taught him some chords on the guitar. In May 1960, Sutcliffe joined Lennon, McCartney, and George"
"Pete Best joined Lennon, McCartney, Stuart Sutcliffe and Harrison on the eve of their Hamburg sojourn, the five using the monikers ""The Silver Beetles"" and ""The Silver Beatles"" (they experimented with ""The Beat Brothers"" and ultimately ""The Beatles"" while in Hamburg with Best). Stuart Sutcliffe was the original bassist of the five-member Beatles, he played with the band primarily during their days as a club act in Hamburg, Germany. When the band returned to Liverpool in 1961, Sutcliffe remained behind in Hamburg. He died of a brain haemorrhage shortly thereafter. Instead of replacing him with a new member, Paul McCartney"
"40 was briefly loaned to Paul McCartney and then it was sold. The band's original bassist Stuart Sutcliffe played a Höfner 500/5 Bass. The company is most famous through its association with Beatles singer and instrumentalist Paul McCartney, who is a longtime user of the Höfner 500/1 model hollow-body electric bass, first manufactured in 1956. McCartney played two left-handed 500/1 basses during most of the group's career – a 1961 model with pickups mounted close together towards the neck, and a 1963 model, with the second pickup mounted closer to the bridge. McCartney used the 1961 bass until the recording"
"Stuart Sutcliffe. From the 16 known demos made in early 1960 at McCartney's house, only three have been released. In Hamburg, Germany, during the Beatles' first stint there, Lennon, McCartney and Harrison recorded a song as the backing group for Lu Walters, the bassist from Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. The Beatles' drummer, Pete Best, was not present, and Hurricanes drummer Ringo Starr played instead. It was the first time John, Paul, George and Ringo recorded music together. Sutcliffe was present at the session but did not play. The song was recorded in the small Akustik studio, in a similar"
"with them in Hamburg in 1960 and 1961 before leaving to concentrate on his art studies. Sutcliffe died of a brain haemorrhage in 1962. Although the tape was made in 1960, the tape was not discovered until much later by the McCartney's neighbors on 20 Forthlin Road. The song was in the instrumental rock style, which was becoming popular in the early sixties with bands such as the Shadows. Another song the band did in the instrumental style was ""Cry for a Shadow"" in 1961. Cayenne (instrumental) ""Cayenne"" is an instrumental track by the Beatles. It was recorded in 1960,"
"had changed their name to The Beatles. Kelly paid the group an average of £8 0s 10d per concert – equivalent to approximately £120 in 2005. The group's final appearance at the hall was on 25 February, George Harrison's 18th birthday. Stuart Sutcliffe, who was the band's bassist at this time, would go on to die of a brain aneurysm 16 months later in Hamburg. A definitive cause is unknown but it has been linked to the traumatic head injury he received during a fight outside Lathom Hall following one of the Beatles' performance in January 1961. According to former"
"since they cost around £100 (equivalent to £ in 2019). Lennon bought a 1958 Rickenbacker 325 Capri guitar prior to Sutcliffe's departure and Harrison bought a Gibson amplifier. The matching lilac jackets, made by McCartney's next-door neighbour in Liverpool to be worn as stage clothes, were soon threadbare, as were any other items of clothing, so the group bought cowboy boots, jeans and black leather jackets and trousers, from Paul Hundertmark's (Spielbudenplatz 9) and a tailor's shop at Thadenstrasse 6. Lennon said: ""We had a bit more money the second time so we bought leather pants ... we looked like"
"never planned or formalised as an album-wide concept, but acknowledged that it served as a ""device"" or underlying theme throughout the project. After Lennon played the song for the other Beatles on his acoustic guitar, on 24 November, he changed to his Epiphone Casino electric guitar for the recordings. McCartney played Mellotron, which, following Lennon's lead, the other three Beatles had acquired their own examples of, through Moody Blues keyboardist Mike Pinder. George Harrison also played electric guitar, emphasising a bass line beside Lennon's rhythm, and Ringo Starr played drums. McCartney wrote the melody for the Mellotron introduction, although on"
"his band, the Quarrymen, at the St Peter's Church Hall fête in Woolton. The Quarrymen played a mix of rock and roll and skiffle, a type of popular music with jazz, blues and folk influences. Soon afterwards, the members of the band invited McCartney to join as a rhythm guitarist, and he formed a close working relationship with Lennon. Harrison joined in 1958 as lead guitarist, followed by Lennon's art school friend Stuart Sutcliffe on bass, in 1960. By May 1960 the band had tried several names, including ""Johnny and the Moondogs"", ""Beatals"" and ""the Silver Beetles"". They adopted the"
"was painted on a board, not a canvas, and had to be cut into two pieces (because of its size) and hinged. Murray added that only one of the pieces actually got to the exhibition (because they stopped off in a pub to celebrate), but sold nonetheless because Moores bought it for his son. Sutcliffe had been turned down when he applied to study for an ATD (Art Teachers Diploma) course at the Liverpool Art College, but after meeting Kirchherr, he decided to leave the Beatles and attend the Hamburg College of Art in June 1961, under the tutelage of"
"booking to play in the club, which was the only venue that young amateur bands could play at the time. Other groups like The Searchers and Gerry and the Pacemakers later played in the club. The Black Jacks became the resident group at The Casbah, although The Quarrymen occasionally played there again and often visited. It was in The Casbah Club that Lennon and McCartney convinced Sutcliffe to buy a Höfner president bass guitar and join The Quarrymen. Even though the membership list later spiralled to over a thousand, Mona closed the club on 24 June 1962, with The Beatles"
"Along with innovative studio techniques such as sound effects, unconventional microphone placements, tape loops, double tracking and vari-speed recording, the Beatles augmented their songs with instruments that were unconventional in rock music at the time. These included string and brass ensembles as well as Indian instruments such as the sitar in ""Norwegian Wood"" and the swarmandal in ""Strawberry Fields Forever"". They also used novel electronic instruments such as the Mellotron, with which McCartney supplied the flute voices on the ""Strawberry Fields Forever"" intro, and the clavioline, an electronic keyboard that created the unusual oboe-like sound on ""Baby, You're a Rich"
"a dispute over internal policy matters, he was persuaded to withdraw it, and continued as General Secretary until his eventual retirement in 1971. He appeared as a ""castaway"" on the BBC Radio programme ""Desert Island Discs"" on 9 November 1964, and died in 1975. Hardie Ratcliffe Hardie Ratcliffe (1906–1975) was an English musician, and General Secretary of the United Kingdom Musicians' Union from 1948. Ratcliffe was born in 1906 in Liverpool, and named after Keir Hardie. In childhood, he played saxophone and flute, and by the age of 17, when he joined the union, was already performing theatre orchestras in"
"in the club. The Black Jacks became the resident group at The Casbah, although The Quarrymen occasionally played there again and often visited. It was in The Casbah Club that Lennon and McCartney persuaded Stuart Sutcliffe to buy a Höfner 500/5 model—known in Europe as a ""President"" bass—with the money he had won in the John Moores art exhibition. Even though the membership list later spiralled to over a thousand, Mona closed the club on 24 June 1962, with The Beatles as the last group to perform. In 2006, Culture Minister David Lammy announced that the Bests' ex-coal cellar was"
"Upon their arrival, they were informed of Sutcliffe's death. By the time of their second Star-Club visit from 1–14 November 1962, Starr had become the group's drummer. The Beatles stayed at the Hotel Germania (Detlev-Bremer-Strasse 8), having the luxury of single rooms for the first time, and then stayed at the Hotel Pacific (Neuer Pferdemarkt 30) for another booking from 18–31 December 1962. Harrison said: ""We came back to play the Star-Club, a big place and fantastic because it had a great sound system. This time we had a hotel. I remember it was quite a long walk from the"
"Paul McCartney’s band. Cope played a red Gibson ES-335 12-string guitar strung with 9 strings (a single course of E, A and D strings, with the G, B and high E strings doubled) to get a fuller sound. The distinctive electronic peal which punctuates ""World Shut Your Mouth"" is the start-up tone of Cope’s main keyboard Cope has subsequently described ""Saint Julian"" as not being one of his favourite albums, although he acknowledges that ""it has its moments."" The above is the original UK track listing. For the US release, ""World Shut Your Mouth"" was placed at the beginning of"
"with the Beatles during 1966–68, following which, Harrison admitted, he had rarely played the sitar.<ref name=""Rosen/RBP 1974"">Steven Rosen, ""George Harrison"", Rock's Backpages, 2008 (subscription required; retrieved 11 January 2015).</ref> Although Schaffner credits the part as a tambura, other commentators describe the instrument as a sitar.<ref name=""BB review/google"">""Top Album Picks: Pop"", ""Billboard"", 9 June 1973, p. 54 (retrieved 23 December 2013).</ref> Among the other tracks recorded for the album, ""The Light That Has Lighted the World"" and ""Who Can See It"" similarly reflect Harrison's desire to escape his Beatles past. In March 1973, following the completion of ""Material World"", Harrison recorded"
"at the club: “John, George, Paul, Stuart and Pete and I were booked to open the smart Top Ten in the Reeperbahn. We moved into a dormitory over the club and slept in bunks. It was terrible really, now I look back. We all washed our own shirts and socks so the place smelt like a Chinese laundry. But we had great times and I’m afraid we used to tease the life out of the old lady who [took care of] us.” Sutcliffe decided to leave the Beatles to concentrate on his art studies and to be with Kirchherr, so"
"deck of a Liverpool bus, where Harrison played Raunchy for Lennon and was asked to join. Stuart Sutcliffe, Lennon's friend from art school, later joined as bassist. Lennon, McCartney, Harrison and Sutcliffe became ""The Beatles"" in early 1960. In August that year, the Beatles engaged for a 48-night residency in Hamburg, Germany and were desperately in need of a drummer. They asked Pete Best to join them. Lennon was now 19, and his aunt, horrified when he told her about the trip, pleaded with him to continue his art studies instead. After the first Hamburg residency, the band accepted another"
"Martin suggested a solo acoustic guitar and a string quartet. As the Beatles musical work developed, particularly in the studio, classical instruments were increasingly added to tracks. Lennon recalled the two way education; the Beatles and Martin learning from each other - George Martin asking if they'd heard an oboe and the Beatles saying, ""No, which one's that one?"" Geoff Emerick, documented the change in attitude to pop, as opposed to classical music during the Beatles career. In EMI at the start of the 1960s, balance engineers were either ""classical"" or ""pop"". Similarly, Paul McCartney recalled a large ""Pop/Classical"" switch"
"stops (including three percussion stops) and converted to electro-pneumatic action. It was still the largest organ in Britain at that time. The 2014 Pink Floyd album ""The Endless River"", includes a track, ""Autumn '68"", featuring a recording of band member Richard Wright playing the organ in 1969. In the 1970s, Harrisons refurbished the console and replaced the switchgear in the action, made minor changes to the voicing and added a roof to attempt to project the sound forward, which was not successful. One interesting note in this period is that composer Wendy Carlos featured the organ during the closing title"
"two LPs: """"Yours"""" and """"Words on Black Plastic"""". Scottish musicians Alan Gorrie, Onnie McIntyre and Stuart Francis had previously been part of a band called Hopscotch, alongside two other Scottish musicians, namely pianist/vocalist Graham Maitland and vocalist Hamish Stuart (later of Crocodile, and Sir Paul McCartney's Wings). Mick Strode, meanwhile, had been the lead guitarist in various bands in the Midlands and in London, most notably with Robert Plant and John Bonham in the final 1968 lineup of their pre-Led Zeppelin group Band of Joy. Early in 1969 in Shepherd's Bush, London, Mick Strode met Alan, Onnie, and Stuart of"
"art shows a Sutcliffe painting entitled ""Homage to Elvis"". The authenticity of the recording has been much debated. Part One of ""The Beatles Anthology"" video documentary covers Sutcliffe's time with the group. There is no mention of his death in the documentary, but it is discussed in the accompanying book. Sutcliffe was portrayed by David Nicholas Wilkinson in the film ""Birth of the Beatles"" (1979) and by Lee Williams in """" (2000). Sutcliffe's role in the Beatles' early career, as well as the factors that led him to leave the group, is dramatised in the 1994 film ""Backbeat"", in which"
"art school used to run around with this sort of what you call Beatles' haircut, and my boyfriend then, Klaus Voormann, had this hairstyle, and Stuart [Sutcliffe] liked it very very much. He was the first one who really got the nerve to get the Brylcreem out of his hair and asking me to cut his hair for him. Pete [Best] has really curly hair and it wouldn't work."" After suffering blackouts and intense headaches, Sutcliffe was taken to a hospital on 10 April 1962—Kirchherr rode with him in the ambulance—but died before the ambulance reached the hospital. Three days"
"on recordings. Occasionally he played a six-string bass guitar, the Fender Bass VI, providing bass on some Beatles numbers (""Back in the U.S.S.R."", ""The Long and Winding Road"", ""Helter Skelter"") that occupied McCartney with another instrument. His other instrument of choice was the piano, on which he composed many songs, including ""Imagine"", described as his best-known solo work. His jamming on a piano with McCartney in 1963 led to the creation of the Beatles' first US number one, ""I Want to Hold Your Hand"". In 1964, he became one of the first British musicians to acquire a Mellotron keyboard, though"
"Instruments played by the Rolling Stones The Rolling Stones, an English rock band, have been active since 1962. Originally a counterpoint to The Beatles, the group took influences from the Blues, rock'n'roll and R&B. Most of their recordings feature a core of drums, bass, two guitars and a lead vocal, though there have been numerous variations on this in the studio. Keith Richards used a Harmony H72 Meteor on early tours, before switching to an Epiphone Casino. After the Stones became successful in the US, Richards acquired a Gibson Firebird and a 1959 Les Paul with a Bigsby Tremolo system."
"Arty Davies of Liverpool Beat says that following the demise of the Womersley/Marshall/ Hutchinson lineup a couple of bookings featured the following: Dave Blackstone lead guitar The Tabs Johnny Hutchinson drums Pete Mumford Bass guitar There is an apocryphal story in Alan Clayson's book ""Beat Merchants"" that Johnny Hutch packed up his drums after a first set at the Blue Angel, collected his pay and went home, with another drummer taking his place. Presumably this was the band's last gig. In 1973, Gustafson and Griffiths teamed up with Elton John drummer Nigel Olsson, and Quatermass keyboardist J. Peter Robinson for"
"changed from rhythm guitar (with Lennon) to bass and the band continued as a four-piece. Sutcliffe was an accomplished painter, but when compared to the other Beatles, his musical skills were described as ""inadequate"", and his involvement in the band was mainly a consequence of his friendship with Lennon. Sutcliffe's input was an important early influence on the development of the band's image; Sutcliffe was the first to wear what later became famous as the Beatles' moptop hairstyle, asking his girlfriend Astrid Kirchherr to cut his hair in emulation of the hairdo worn by friend Klaus Voormann. Pete Best was"
"five-piece band, Sutcliffe is one of several people sometimes referred to as the ""Fifth Beatle."" When he performed with the Beatles in Hamburg, he met photographer Astrid Kirchherr, to whom he was later engaged. After leaving the Beatles, he enrolled in the Hamburg College of Art, studying under future pop artist Eduardo Paolozzi, who later wrote a report stating that Sutcliffe was one of his best students. Sutcliffe earned other praise for his paintings, which mostly explored a style related to abstract expressionism. While studying in Germany, Sutcliffe began experiencing severe headaches and acute sensitivity to light. In April 1962,"
"Norman Sheffield, recalled that Mal Evans, the Beatles' aide and former roadie, insisted that some marijuana plants he had brought be placed in the studio to make the place ""soft"", consistent with the band's wishes. Barry Sheffield served as recording engineer for the session. The line-up on the basic track was McCartney on piano and lead vocal, Lennon on acoustic guitar, Harrison on electric guitar, and Ringo Starr on drums. The Beatles recorded four takes of ""Hey Jude"", the first of which was selected as the master. With drums absent for the first 50 seconds of the song, McCartney began"
"Lennon, McCartney and Harrison rehearsing or playing in the Art College canteen in the basement, but after Sutcliffe joined the Quarrymen, Harry complained that Sutcliffe should be concentrating on art and not music, as he thought he was a competent, but not brilliant bassist. As Harry and Sutcliffe were members of the Liverpool College of Art's Student Union committee, they put forward the idea that the college should buy its own P.A. system for college dances, which the Quarrymen often played at, but the equipment would later be appropriated by the group and taken to Hamburg. As late as 7"
"all four guitarists were electric), and sang through one microphone connected to the club's small PA system. The group continued their Casbah residency into the new year, occasionally securing other gigs. In January, Brown grew ill and was unable to play the show. Best, however, insisted that the Quarrymen still pay Brown, but Lennon, McCartney, and Harrison refused; the incident resulted in the loss of their residency at the Casbah and Brown's departure from the group. Shortly after, however, Lennon convinced fellow art school student Stuart Sutcliffe to purchase a bass guitar and join the group. The group had no"
"and Pierre Sutcliffe, who won $503,000 in May 2014, on Australian TV quiz show ""Million Dollar Minute"") and Ash Wednesday (formerly of JAB on keyboards, Sutcliffe and Janis Friedenfelds (a.k.a. Johnny Crash) on drums and percussion. Models were more pop influenced than the earlier punk bands and had a wider appeal. The initial version of the group did not stay together for long as, after six months, Sutcliffe was replaced on bass by Mark Ferrie (ex-Myriad). In August 1979, Wednesday was replaced by Andrew Duffield from Whirlywirld on keyboards. Their first release in October 1979 was a give-away, shared single,"