Backbeat (film)

Backbeat is a 1994 AngloGerman drama film directed by Iain Softley. It chronicles the early days of the Beatles in Hamburg, Germany. The film focuses primarily on the relationship between Stuart Sutcliffe Stephen Dorff and John Lennon Ian Hart, and also with Sutcliffes German girlfriend Astrid Kirchherr Sheryl Lee. It has subsequently been made into a stage production.

The soundtrack to the film includes no songs written by members of the Beatles, but various songs the group performed in Hamburg, written and recorded by other artists.Rather than recreate the sounds of the period, iconoclastic, rebellious musicians were recruited as a producer noted, the Beatles prerecording stage act was the punk of its day. This was done to better convey the way the music came across to the audience, at the time. The musicians were all members of American rock bands ........

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