Throughout early and mid-1962, to secure a UK record contract, Epstein sought to free the Beatles from their contractual obligations to Polydor and Bert Kaempfert Productions. He eventually negotiated a one-month early release in exchange for one last recording session in Hamburg backing Tony Sheridan. On their return to Germany in April, a distraught Kirchherr met them at the airport with news of Sutcliffe’s death the previous day from a brain haemorrhage .
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