The Beatles - John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr? But Lennon's artist roommate Stuart Sutcliffe was there at the start, playing bass. And his style forever shaped the band. Pierce the mystique that surrounds the start-up of the Beatles. See the down-and-out existence in Liverpool and Hamburg's sex quarter. Meet his lover Astrid Kirchherr, Klaus Voorman, Tony Sheridan.