Chas Newby, bassist who left the Beatles to become a teacher, dies aged 81

chas Newby a British musician and professor who shared the stage with you Beatles , died this Monday (22), aged 81. The cause of death has not been revealed so far.

Despite never having seen music as a way of life, as he said in an interview with the British tabloid Sunday Mercury in 2012, Charles “Chas” Newby had a good experience in the area to know what it would be like to be a bass player for one of the biggest bands on the planet.

In 1960, he played four shows alongside John Lennon, Paul McCartney It is George Harrison while Stuart Stucliffe the Beatles’ first bassist, was in Hamburg taking the initial steps in his career as a painter.

Stucliffe returned to the shows a week later and Newby resumed studying at university. “I wanted to do chemistry. John, Paul and George wanted to be musicians”, said Chas in the interview with the British newspaper.

A year later, however, Stucliffe decided to leave the band for good and start studying art. Then, the formation of the Beatles as we know them, with John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, begins to happen.

Despite having become a mathematics teacher for medical education, Newby continued with the bass guitar in parallel. In addition to having a charity band called the Racketts, he was part of a new lineup of the group Quarryman in 2016. Quarryman was originally formed in 1956 by John Lennon, even before the Beatles.

O cavern club , where the Liverpool boys played several times early in their career, mourned Newby’s death on social media. “It is with great sadness that I receive the news of the passing of Chas Newby,” reads the Facebook post. “Interestingly, he was also the first left-handed bassist for the Beatles.”

Source: CNN Brasil

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