The producers of Backbeat, the adaptation of one of the UK’s best-loved British films, have announced that the leading roles of Stuart Sutcliffe, Astrid Kirchherr, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George ...

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Long before Yoko Ono appeared on the scene, another artsy foreigner made life difficult for the Beatles. Astrid Kirchherr, an aspiring German photographer, was introduced to the Fab Four during their ...

Casting has today (2 September 2011) been announced for the West End production of Backbeat – Iain Softley‘s stage adaptation of his award-winning 1994 British film about the early years of the ...

Sutcliffe’s story has become a perennial, not limited to Beatle book shelves. Granada TV’s Midnight Angel covered it in 1990. The BBC’s Stuart Sutcliffe - The Lost Beatle did so in 2005. The film ...

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