Tom writes of an early tragic Beatle... On 10 April 1962, Stuart Sutcliffe, the original bass guitarist of the Beatles, died at the age of 21 from a brain haemorrhage. Shortly after his death, his best friend, John Lennon, tearfully told an audience in a Hamburg nightclub that Stuart had been a very special and extraordinary person who had once told him he could see into the future. Lennon then added, "And I, for one, believe him." Sutcliffe’s visions have been largely overlooked by most Beatles