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Stuart Sutcliffe (23 June 1940 – 10 April 1962) was a former member and bass player of The Quarrymen. Sutcliffe is one of the group of people sometimes referred to as "The Fifth Beatle". Sutcliffe and John Lennon are credited with coming up with the name for the Beatles, as they both liked Buddy Holly's band, The Crickets. Sutcliffe played with the Beatles in Hamburg, where he met photographer Astrid Kirchherr, to whom he was later engaged. He enrolled in the Hamburg College of Art after leaving The Beatles, and studied under future pop artist Eduardo Paolozzi.

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