Chapter 01 — Today in music
On a day like today April 10
1970
Paul McCartney announces his exit and the world understands: The Beatles are over
A press release included with his first solo album revealed that Paul McCartney would no longer work with The Beatles. The papers translated it without nuance: the most important band in history had split. The sixties, strictly speaking, ended that Friday. Lennon had quit privately the previous September; the announcement was McCartney's.
Paul McCartney
The Beatles
1962
Stuart Sutcliffe dies, the fifth Beatle who chose painting
Stuart Sutcliffe died in Hamburg of a brain hemorrhage, The Beatles' first bassist and John Lennon's best friend. He had left the band to devote himself to painting and to stay with his fiancee, photographer Astrid Kirchherr, creator of the Beatle haircut. He was 21 and enormously gifted as a visual artist.
Stuart Sutcliffe
The Beatles
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