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The Beatles,
Tony Sheridan
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: Polydor
: Documentary, Foreign, Music, Biographies, Music Videos/Performance, Documentary, Music, UK
: 137 min.
: English
: English
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While most music fans know that the Beatles cut their teeth as a live act with a residency at a rough-and-tumble nightspot in Hamburg, Germany, called The Star Club, fewer people are aware that the group also made their earliest studio recordings during their German sojourn. Tony Sheridan, a German pop star, liked what he heard when he saw the British upstarts on-stage, and he recruited them to back him up on a single, featuring rocked-out versions of "My Bonnie" and "When the Saints Go Marching In." The Beatles returned to the studio with Sheridan for further sessions, including a take of "Ain't She Sweet" with John Lennon singing lead and an instrumental piece written by Paul McCartney and George Harrison, "Cry for a Shadow." The Beatles with Tony Sheridan: The Beginnings in Hamburg is a documentary which, through interviews and vintage footage, tells the story of Tony Sheridan and how he gave the biggest rock band of all time its first break in the recording studio. The DVD also includes new Dolby Digital 5.1 remixes of the Sheridan recordings and preserves the original versions in uncompressed PCM stereo. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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| The Beatles as bait?
by Merty
March 23, 2004 - 6:51 AM PST
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1 out of 1 members found this review helpful
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| The Beatles are really the subtext of this fine documentary. How many of us would check this out if it were billed as a movie about Tony Sheridan? and a few others who were beginning to play rock-and-roll in England and Germany? The Beatles obviously went on to greater and more creative things. But it is very interesting to get a real feel for how they started and how others at the time -- more popular or well-known -- contributed to their growth. And it is fun to listen to Tony Sheridan who sounds very much like Elvis. The influence of Ray Charles, Buddy Holly and a host of others are well documented. All in all a very good watch and listen! |
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