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    Chas Newby, fill-in bassist who rejected a full-time gig with the Beatles, dies at 81

    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, with many remembering him as “the first left-handed bass guitarist in the Beatles.” Paul McCartney became the second when he eventually moved over to bass. Newby’s cause of death was not immediately ...
    by Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times May 24, 2023 3 minutes
    The stage at the Casbah Club in Liverpool, England, on Sept. 15, 2006, where rock bassist Chas Newby once played as a member of the Beatles in 1960..

    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, with many remembering him as “the first left-handed bass guitarist in the Beatles.” Paul McCartney became the second when he eventually moved over to bass. Newby’s cause of death was not immediately disclosed.

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