The first place John Lennon independently lived was at 3 Gambier Terrace, a gorgeous Georgian terrace home overlooking the impressive neo-Gothic Liverpool Cathedral. He shared this flat on the first floor with Beatles member Stuart Sutcliffe and another student named Rod Murray. The apartment looked like a student one inside with badly painted walls and sparse furniture and became a hang-out for local artists and musicians. Also Paul McCartney and George Harrison were regular visitors and often rehearsed here together with the others.
Sutcliffe spent 15 months as the Beatles electric bassist and toured Hamburg with them. Afterwards, he left the band to focus on painting and his love affair with photographer Astrid Kirchher, but tragically died in April 1962.
There's no official tour to Gambier Terrace and please do not disturb today's inhabitants and neighbours.
John Lennon from the Beatles once lived in a flat in Gambier Terrace, Liverpool (Photo by Bachmeier / Ramsthaler)
Gambier Terrace in Liverpool - once home to John Lennon (Photo by Bachmeier / Ramsthaler)
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