Backbeat – review

Duke of York's, LondonDoes London need another jukebox bio musical? No, and it doesn't get one either in this intelligent, multilayered and often touching account of the Beatles' early days in Hamburg and Liverpool and the "lost" Beatle, Stuart Sutcliffe. The epitome of cool, Sutcliffe was John Lennon's art-school buddy and a gifted young painter who abandoned the group for art and the love of Astrid Kirchherr, the photographer who took some famous moody shots of the band and originally styled t...

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