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Sutcliffe was portrayed by David Nicholas Wilkinson in Birth of the Beatles (1979) and by Lee Williams in In His Life: The John Lennon Story (2000). [73] Sutcliffe's role in the Beatles' early career and the factors that led him to leave the group are dramatised in the 1994 film Backbeat, in which he was portrayed by American actor Stephen Dorff.
The original lineup of the Beatles, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Stuart Sutcliffe and Pete Best, regularly performed at different clubs in Hamburg, West Germany, during the period from August 1960 to May 1962; a chapter in the group's history which honed their performance skills, widened their reputation, and led to their first recording, which brought them to the attention of ...
Backbeat is a 1994 independent drama film directed by Iain Softley.It chronicles the early days of The Beatles in Hamburg, West Germany.The film focuses primarily on the relationship between Stuart Sutcliffe (Stephen Dorff) and John Lennon (), and also with Sutcliffe's German girlfriend Astrid Kirchherr (). [1]
The Lives of John Lennon is a 1988 biography of musician John Lennon by American author Albert Goldman.The book is a product of several years of research and hundreds of interviews with Lennon's friends, acquaintances, servants, and musicians.
The film starts in 1961, when the Silver Beatles (as they were then called) consisted of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Stuart Sutcliffe.They need a drummer and a manager, and although Sutcliffe can sing, he cannot play an instrument.
Newsweek made reference to Lennon's "more popular than Jesus" comments in an issue published in March, [22] and the interview had appeared in Detroit magazine in May. [23] On 3 July, Cleave's four Beatles interviews were published together in a five-page article in The New York Times Magazine, titled "Old Beatles – A Study in Paradox". [24]
Astrid Kirchherr ([ˈastʁɪt ˈkɪʁçhɛʁ]; 20 May 1938 – 12 May 2020) was a German photographer and artist known for her association with the Beatles (along with her friends Klaus Voormann and Jürgen Vollmer) and her photographs of the band's original members — John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Stuart Sutcliffe and Pete Best — during their early days in Hamburg.
Lennon goes on to form a number of bands, widening his local audience as he develops, before later joining with Stuart Sutcliffe (Lee Williams), George Harrison (Mark Rice-Oxley), Pete Best (Scot Williams) and Paul McCartney (Daniel McGowan) to form the Beatles.