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MrMoonlight said
what would it be like had Pete Best stayed in the Beatles and Stuart Sutcliffe never to have died and stayed part of them?

They would have struggled mightily because they would have been terrible. The band would feature a one trick pony on drums and a bass player who just couldn't get the hang of the bass. I don't think Stu would ever have played much better than average. They would have become passe' even in Hamburg and been forced into the workplace with very little talent for anything. Not even songwriting. From what ...