Stuart Sutcliffe


Why wasn't his death mentioned in Anthology disc 1 or 2, whichever one he was featured in? Or maybe I missed something...

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His death was not mentioned, probably because he had already been out of the band for a long time by then. And the documentary had to keep going (without getting too sad) and stay focused on the Beatles story itself.

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I just re-watched and realised this too. I found it really odd since they went over everything else in such detail. He was a Beatle after all.

I don't think he had been out of the band that long, he stayed behind to live with Astrid in Hamburg and when John and the others came to visit they were devastated to learn he had just died.

They covered Brian's death. I just found it weird and a little insulting that they couldn't even give 30 seconds to an ex band member. And then proceeded to talk about everything else for 8 hours :(

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Maybe because "Backbeat" had just come out a year earlier and they didn't want to be redundant?

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I was surprised by that. They might at least have mentioned it I thought.

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