Backbeat tells the story of the Beatles' pre-fame Hamburg days, focusing on Stuart Sutcliffe, the band's magnetically sexy original bassist, and his relationships with John Lennon and the beautiful ...

Backbeat (1994) Director: Iain Softley Entertainment grade: B+ History grade: A– John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Stuart Sutcliffe and Pete Best formed the first lineup of the Beatles in ...

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In Revolution in the Head, his brilliant book about the Beatles' music, the late Ian MacDonald dismissed the 1994 biopic Backbeat as a "crude caricature" of the band's early days in Hamburg. That may ...