This is a poignant memoir of forgotten Beatle Stuart Sutcliffe, and a remarkable chronicle of the early days of the world's most influential pop group. One of the founding members and a close friend of John Lennon, Sutcliffe left the band after their Hamburg sojourn in order to pursue his promising career as an artist, dying shortly thereafter of a brain hemorrhage. In this book, his sister Pauline sheds new light on the Beatles' formative period—the rivalry with McCartney, how George Harrison t...