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'Fifth Beatle' Sutcliffe Memorabilia To Be Sold
The letters and art of “Fifth Beatle” Stuart Sutcliffe are to be put up for bid, auctioneer Fleetwood Owen said Friday. Some 400 items, including correspondence between Sutcliffe and the Beatles, drawings, photographs and his first guitar will be auctioned as one lot in a sealed-bid sale, it said. “The collection is full of wonderful things, wonderful artwork, fabulously interesting letters, poetry, sketchbooks, all delightful and beautiful things to look at,” said Sutcliffe’s sister, Pauline, who is selling the material. Sutcliffe died of a brain hemorrhage six months before the Beatles reached the hit parade in 1962. Sutcliffe, whose short… Read more »