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Solo forums => Fifth Beatles and the Merseybeat Scene => Topic started by: frightenedandscared on April 10, 2005, 05:38:53 PM
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Stuart Sutcliffe died 43years ago today.
:'(
(http://www.geocities.com/imagine_80_jwl/stuh4.jpg)
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stu we hardly knew you....
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RIP Stuart
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We miss you Stu.
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Hofner President bass..tasty 8)
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He's been dead longer than John was alive.
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Wow... I did not know that... I guess you're right.
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thats weird man
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I was just at imdb.com to read comments about BACKBEAT (the film) and someone posted that the fellow who played Stuart should not have used a Liverpudlian accent because he was born in Scotland.
Does anyone know how long he was living in Scotland before moving to Liverpool?
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I was just at imdb.com to read comments about BACKBEAT (the film) and someone posted that the fellow who played Stuart should not have used a Liverpudlian accent because he was born in Scotland.
Does anyone know how long he was living in Scotland before moving to Liverpool?
After the Second War live Stuart in Liverppol.
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After the Second War live Stuart in Liverppol.
Check your grammar, Doctor Robert! LOL ;)
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He's been dead longer than John was alive.
Yeah, strange.. Strange and sad.. :'( RIP Stuart, John, George...
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Thanks for the replies!
So if he went to Liverpool after the war he certainly would have had a Liverpudlian accent by the time he was in Hamburg! ;D
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Stuart didn't have a Liverpool accent. That was what amused me when friends told me that Stephen Dorff had been in Liverpool trying to learn the Liverpool accent. Pauline Sutcliffe also met Dorff, but didn't even bother to let him know that Stuart didn't have either a Scots or a Liverpool accent. I think the fact that he didn't have any noticeable accent was down to his mum, Millie.
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Hee! Thanks for the inside scoop, Bill!
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THE grave of an original member of The Beatles was restored by a keen fan after years of neglect.
The headstone of Stuart Sutcliffe, who was the band’s bassist in the early 1960s, was almost toppled over in a Huyton cemetery.
But a big Beatles fan who made it his mission to restore famous landmarks of the Fab Four has restored the fallen granite grave and repainted its gold lettering.
Less than two months after he painted the gates of the former Strawberry Field children’s home in its original pillar box red, Colin Unwin cleared and tidied the plot.
The 61-year-old said: “After the sad tale of Strawberry Field, I wanted to tidy up Stuart’s grave. He was the forgotten Beatle and contributed so much to the band in its founder years.
“Before there was John and Paul there was John and Stuart, and it broke my heart to see his grave so neglected and at a 45-degree angle.”
Colin, who lives in Manchester, paid a stonemason to repair and upright the headstone before he repainted the gold lettering.
He said: “I would have paid any amount of money to have it done. It does not look like anyone has been maintaining it and it was close to toppling over.
“Fourteen years ago, during a visit to Strawberry Field, I picked a flower and planted it in my garden.
“I have now transferred this purple flower and planted it next to Stuart’s grave for the many fans who visit his grave to appreciate.”
Colin, who works as a janitor at Rochdale fire station, tried to contact Sutcliffe’s family before finally getting permission from St Michael’s parish church, Huyton.
He said: “Many fans visit the grave and I have often found plectrums, flags and even a Jesus medallion which they have left.
“Hopefully more people will now visit the grave to pay their respects.”
Colin is now hoping to put up plaques in memory of The Beatles at sites including Litherland town hall, where he said Beatlemania began.
(http://www.beatlesfanclub.nl/images/stories/grafstuart.JPG)
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shame it fell to neglect...paula didn't mention that in her book did she???you would think she owed stuie a bit more...i bet johnny would have kept it up....i thank the fan for the effort but how much did stu really do? he was probally scared thru most of it...face it all the guys were niave and even tho they grew up in a port town germany was different....zieg heil~!! ;D