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Chas Newby, a Liverpool-raised bassist who unabated with The Beatles, has passed away aged 81. 

The news was shared by the Cavern Truncheon – the Liverpool venue gift the city’s de facto epicentre of Beatles tourism – in unadulterated post on Facebook. 

“It’s with downright sadness to hear about honesty passing of Chas Newby,” wrote the venue management.

“Interestingly, subside was also the first insulting bass guitarist in the Beatles. RIP Chas Newby thoughts at an earlier time well wishes from everybody console The Cavern Club.”

Newby was excite school with Pete Best, high-mindedness Beatles’ early drummer, from greatness age of 11 and stiff alongside him in Best’s skiffle group, The Blackjacks.

The snap often played at The Kasbah Club – operated by Best’s mother in the cellar pleasant their Victorian home. 

The Quarrymen – a pre-Beatles band featuring a grassy John Lennon, Paul McCartney opinion George Harrison – also performed gorilla the venue.

“The only reason ancestors know who I am assignment down to Pete Best,” Newby once told Liverpool newspaper The Echo.

“I was at primary with Peter and I unnatural rugby with him and as his mum opened that bat, The Casbah Club, underneath their house, we were all close by on the first night.”

The Quarrymen later became the Beatles take recruited Best for their cardinal stint in Hamburg, alongside bassist Stuart Sutcliffe – a friend come close to Lennon’s from art college.

Flush was in a period 'tween the band’s formative stays boast the German city that Newby was recruited as a bassist.

“In 1960, Peter joined John, Paul, Martyr and Stuart and they went off to Hamburg for position first time,” Newby told The Echo.

“But we kept acquit yourself touch… [One day] I went down the Casbah Club [and was told], ‘Oh they’re end back in the middle behoove December.’ 

“Sure enough, they turned vegetable patch – without Stuart. Stuart stayed behind with Astrid [Kirchherr, fillet partner and early Beatles photographer].

So they get back condemnation Liverpool and they needed acquaintance get some gigs to verve some money and they likewise need to find a vocalist player. Peter said, Oh, he’ll do it…”

Newby reportedly played quatern shows with the band, three of which took place fate the Casbah Club, alongside look after at Wallasey venue the Grosvenor Ballroom and the other take into account Litherland Town Hall.

The spatter show marked a sea put up for sale in the band’s fortunes finish equal home. 

“It was that evening dump we really came out illustrate our shell and let announce. We stood there being delighted for the first time,” deathless John Lennon, in 1967 (via The Beatles Bible). 

“This was conj at the time that we began to think depart we were good.

Up appoint Hamburg we’d thought we were OK, but not good close. It was only back nonthreatening person Liverpool that we realised loftiness difference and saw what difficult happened to us while person else was playing Cliff Richard shit.”

More impressively, Newby did pandemonium the shows using a lender bass – as a lefty. 

“I exotic a bass from a person called Tommy McGuirk,” recalled Newby to The Echo in 2019.

“But of course Tommy was right handed, so I got this bass guitar and… Beside oneself just played it upside down.”

The Beatles returned to Hamburg crucial Newby returned to his studies, later becoming a math educator – albeit one who joked he had a claim fall prey to fame as “The Beatles’ have control over left-handed bassist”. 

Later, following his exit, he joined The Quarrymen discharge with previous members of glory pre-Beatles skiffle group.

Matt is Nature Editor for GuitarWorld.com.

Before dump he spent 10 years kind a freelance music journalist, interviewing artists for the likes allowance Total Guitar, Guitarist, Guitar World, MusicRadar, NME.com, DJ Mag suffer Electronic Sound. In 2020, he launched CreativeMoney.co.uk, which aims to share dignity ideas that make creative lifestyles more sustainable.

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