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  • Another previously announced show is Backbeat, which is about the Beatles' original bassist Stuart Sutcliffe and his relationship with John Lennon.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed J. Kelly Nestruck 2012

  • I Need That Record is a part of the wonderful "Backbeat" sub-section, which focuses on films about music, and revolves around the dying breed that is the record store.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Glenn Dunks 2009

  • "Nowhere Boy" isn't as gripping as the earlier "Backbeat" which depicts the Beatles' salad days in Hamburg, Germany.

    The Seattle Times 2010

  • The story is a whirl, a jumble, an effusion -- sometimes flowing smoothly, other times jerking along as if the filmmaker ( "Backbeat," "The Wings of the Dove") has been given advice he resents regarding pacing and the balance of sweetness and danger.

    Top Stories - Google News 2009

  • New Lennon Bio Pic: Nowhere Boy: There was that one Beatles movie that I remember as being pretty good: was it called "Backbeat"? too lazy to Google ...

    Glorious Noise 2009

  • Poor Ringo Starr has yet to be repped onscreen in a Beatles drama, having no place in this story's timeframe or in the underrated 1994 "Backbeat" (which covered the Hamburg years).

    Variety.com 2009

  • 16That line from "Backbeat," which I have the feeling he probably really said to Astrid: "I'm not angry, sister, I'm desperate"

    Archive 2006-12-01 Annie 2006

  • 16That line from "Backbeat," which I have the feeling he probably really said to Astrid: "I'm not angry, sister, I'm desperate"

    a day in the life Annie 2006

  • The Beatles 'story - their childhoods, their teens, their days in Hamburg before they broke through in England and then the USA - has been fodder for books, documentaries, even a couple of middling movies (I prefer Backbeat to the pretentious The Hours and Times).

    Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Nowhere Boy Marshall Fine 2010

  • The Beatles 'story - their childhoods, their teens, their days in Hamburg before they broke through in England and then the USA - has been fodder for books, documentaries, even a couple of middling movies (I prefer Backbeat to the pretentious The Hours and Times).

    Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Nowhere Boy Marshall Fine 2010

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