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Newby taught mathematics at Droitwich Spa High School in Droitwich Spa and most recently lived in Alcester, where he played in a charity group, the Racketts. In 2016, Newby began performing as a member of the Quarrymen, the band that was the precursor to the Beatles. [3] Newby died on 22 May 2023, at the age of 81. [4]
Chas Newby, an English rock bassist and brief member of the Beatles in the early 1960s, died this week at 81.. Friends and members of the Liverpool rock scene confirmed Newby's death on Tuesday ...
From 2016 former Beatles bassist Chas Newby performed with the band. He died in May 2023. John Lowe died in February 2024. [98] Since their 1997 reformation, the Quarrymen have recorded three albums, consisting mostly of covers of 1950s rock and skiffle.
This is a list of notable performers of rock music and other forms of popular music, and others directly associated with the music as producers, songwriters, or in other closely related roles, who died in 2023.
Chas Newby, 81, British bassist (The Beatles). [546] Mosobalaje Oyawoye, 95, Nigerian geologist. [547] George J. Pedersen, 87, American government contracting pioneer, co-founder of ManTech International. [548] Erick Pohlhammer, 68, Chilean poet, complications from a stroke. [549] Aditya Singh Rajput, 32, Indian actor (Cambala Investigation ...
Chas Newby, 81, British bassist (The Beatles). [125] Hugh Strachan, 84, Scottish professional footballer (Motherwell, Greenock Morton, Kilmarnock, Partick Thistle). 25 May – Karen Lumley, 59, British Conservative Party politician. [126] 26 May – Emily Morgan, 45, British journalist . [127] 28 May
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Pete Best suggested Chas Newby. Newby had been with the Black Jacks (Pete Best's group), and was now attending university, but was on holiday and so agreed to play with the Beatles. He appeared with them for four engagements in December 1960 (17 December, Casbah Club, Liverpool; 24 December, Grosvenor Ballroom, Liscard; 27 December, Litherland ...