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Title: Beatles Genesis : Backbeat Rocks London's West End - video
Post by: peregrine9 on November 19, 2011, 06:57:02 PM
Huffington Post
November 18, 2011
Beatles Genesis: Backbeat Rocks London's West End - VIDEO

How does one credibly portray the greatest rock 'n' roll band of all time without benefit of their recorded music? In 1994, British director Iain Softley released Backbeat, with Ian Hart as John Lennon, Stephen Dorff as Stuart Sutcliffe (Lennon's best friend and a fleeting band member), and Sheryl Lee (Twin Peaks) as Astrid Kerchheer -- a Hamburg photographer who famously shot the Beatles and whom Sutcliffe left the band for.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-kurcfeld/beatles-genesis-backbeat-_b_1097877.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-kurcfeld/beatles-genesis-backbeat-_b_1097877.html)