The Observer magazine (September 8, 1968), the first of two issues celebrating The Beatles.
Nik Cohn sends in his thoughts on the lost man, Stuart Sutcliffe:
If he’d never played with the Beatles, of course, he’d have been forgotten by now, but that doesn’t necessarily make him less intriguing. He never made records and his paintings were only a beginning. The most vivid things he left were Astrid’s pictures of him, the shades and the leather, the gaunt cheekbones, the restlessness, the basic energy and strength. Added up, it doesn’t come to much but it does remain oddly haunting.
