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    Birth of the Beatles (1979)

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    This dismal TV movie – a Dick Clark production made for ABC-TV but released in cinemas in Europe – covers the early days of The Beatles with Stuart Sutcliffe and original drummer Pete Best (who was a consultant on the film – one reason why every assertion the film makes should be regarded with scepticism) up until their first Ed Sullivan Show appearance.

    Items including the band’s friendship with German photographer Astrid Kirchherr and Sutcliffe’s sudden death from a brain aneurysm are handled fairly well but, generally, Birth of the Beatles is full of inaccuracies – clothes, guitars, songs, events, locations, you name it – and contains much that is completely falsified.

    All four members of The Beatles sued to stop the movie but lost. See Backbeat (1994) instead.

    John Lennon
    Stephen MacKenna
    Paul McCartney
    Rod Culbertson
    George Harrison
    John Altman
    Ringo Starr
    Ray Ashcroft
    Pete Best
    Michael Ryan
    Stu Sutcliffe
    David Wilkinson
    Brian Epstein
    Brian Jameson
    Cynthia
    Wendy Morgan
    Rory Storm
    Gary Olsen
    Aunt Mimi
    Eileen Kennally
    Club Boss
    Richard Marner
    Astrid
    Alyson Spiro
    George Martin
    Nigel Havers

    Director
    Richard Marquand

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