As soon as the marriage service began, a workman outside took this as his cue to go mad with his pneumatic drill! This, in actual truth, befell in the less than magnificent setting of Reece's Cafe, a crowded snack bar that offered the newlyweds and their friends a memorable menu of soup, roast chicken, and trifle (fruit and custard spongecake), washed down with glasses of delicious water. Pages and pages would journey back and forth between England and West Germany, detailing most of the issues, both good and bad, that had taken place lately, accompanied by cartoons, jokes, and poems. On arriving at Hamburg Airport on April 11 for a tour, the Beatles have been greeted by Astrid Kirchherr and the news that Stuart Sutcliffe, the bassist who had left the group to remain with her in Germany, had died the earlier day of a suspected blood clot on the brain. The John Lennon who rose to fame in Britain as the "chief" of the Beatles in 1963 was very completely different from the character familiar to those that knew him in and around Liverpool. John Lennon and Brian Epstein: Greater than Friends?
