What to say about … Backbeat

Reviews of the new pre-Beatles musical range from scathing to ecstatic, but it's slightly more Help! than A Taste of HoneyReviews don't always find a common ground; sometimes it's best to admit that. Here goes, then: I don't have a clue what to make of Backbeat. Everybody seems to like the 1994 film it's based on, which told the story of the Beatles' squalid early years in Hamburg, leading up to Stuart Sutcliffe's departure from the band. Yet opinions on the theatre version range from scathing t...

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