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Tony Sheridan
Tony Sheridan performing live, November 2004
Groundwork information
Birth name	Anthony Esmond Sheridan McGinnity
Born	(1940-05-21)21 May 1940 Norwich, Norfolk, England
Died	16 February 2013(2013-02-sixteen) (aged 72) Hamburg, Germany
Genres	Stone and roll Merseybeat
Occupation(s)	Vocaliser-songwriter, musician
Instruments	Vocals, guitar, violin
Years active	1958–2013
Labels	Polydor
Associated acts	The Beatles
Website	Official website

Musical artist

Anthony Esmond Sheridan McGinnity (21 May 1940 – 16 Feb 2013), known professionally as Tony Sheridan, was an English rock and roll singer-songwriter and guitarist who spent much of his developed life in Federal republic of germany.^[1] He was best known as an early collaborator of the Beatles (though the tape was labelled as being with "The Shell Brothers"), ane of two non-Beatles (the other being Billy Preston) to receive label performance credit on a record with the group, and the merely non-Beatle to appear as lead vocaliser on a Beatles recording which charted as a single.

Biography [edit]

Sheridan was born in Norwich, Norfolk, where he grew upward at 2 Hansell Road in Thorpe St Andrew and attended the City of Norwich School.^{[two] [three]}

His parents, Alphonsus McGinnity and Audrey J M Mann were married in Norwich in 1939. In his early life, Sheridan was influenced by their interest in classical music, and by age seven, he had learned to play the violin. He somewhen came to play guitar, and in 1956, formed his first band. He showed enough talent that he soon establish himself playing in London'due south "Two I'southward" club for some six months straight. In 1958, aged 18, he began actualization on Oh Boy!, made by the ITV contractor ABC, playing electric guitar on such early rock classics as "Blue Suede Shoes", "Glad All Over", "Mighty Mighty Man" and "Oh, Boy!". He was before long employed backing a number of singers, reportedly including Gene Vincent and Conway Twitty while they were in England.^[four] In 1958 Johnny Foster sought to recruit Sheridan as a guitar player in Cliff Richard's backing band (presently renamed the Shadows), but subsequently failing to find him at the 2i'southward Java Bar opted for another guitarist who was there, Hank Marvin.^{[5] [half-dozen]} Early in 1960, he performed in a bout of the UK, along with Vincent and Eddie Cochran. On 16 April, Vincent and Cochran rebuffed his asking to ride along with them to the next venue. He therefore escaped the road accident which would exit Cochran dead and Vincent badly injured.^[vii]

Sheridan played guitar for Carmine Wainer on her recording of "Happy Organ". Despite these successes, his penchant for beingness belatedly, showing up without his guitar, etc., soon got him a reputation for having gone a bit "haywire", and cost him much of his professional person standing in England. Providentially, an offer for a gig came from Bruno Koschmider's "Kaiserkeller" club in Hamburg, Deutschland for an English group to play at that place.^[ane] Sheridan and others (including Colin "Melander" Crawley) joined an ad hoc group promptly dubbed "The Jets" and were put on the transport headed for Hamburg. As fate would have it, legal woes (i.e. lack of proper papers) acquired "The Jets" to not last long, just Sheridan (and at present-friend Crawley) were soon back onstage in Hamburg.^[viii]

While performing in Hamburg between 1960 and 1963, Sheridan employed diverse backup bands, most of which were really "pickup bands", or just an amalgam of various musicians, rather than a group proper (though virtually always including at present bassist Colin "Melander" Crawley and usually top-pianist Roy Immature).^[1] Nonetheless, in 1961, the young Beatles (with their line-upwardly at the time of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Stuart Sutcliffe and Pete Best) who had met and admired Sheridan during their first visit to Hamburg in 1960, and who worked with him on their second visit, became even closer.^[1] The Beatles sometimes backed Sheridan, who, in plough, often joined the Beatles during their own sets bankroll them on guitar. They even visited Sheridan's home and had jamming sessions in the back garden.^[9]

When a colleague of German Polydor producer/A & R human Bert Kaempfert saw the pairing on stage, he suggested that Sheridan and the Beatles make some recordings together.^[10] Kaempfert viewed Sheridan as the one with "star" potential, and though they signed the Beatles to play on Sheridan's records their contract with them stipulated that the four Beatles (Lennon, McCartney, Harrison and Best) were insured to play on a minimum of two songs. Of the seven songs recorded during Sheridan's 2-day-long sessions for Polydor in June 1961, at times the band behind Sheridan would be down to simply two Beatles (Paul McCartney and Pete Best). Conversely some^{[ who? ]} say that only on their 2 solo songs practice all four Beatles play (minus Sheridan), while Sheridan plays on all of his tracks. John Lennon'southward rhythm guitar is heard only on the two Beatle solo tracks (though his voice is heard in groundwork vocals besides as his handclaps on Sheridan's tracks) (per "Beatles Deeper Undercover" by Kristopher Engelhardt, p. 302) These sessions produced Sheridan's "My Bonnie" and "The Saints", and the Beatles' "Own't She Sweet" and "Weep for a Shadow" (formerly titled "Beatle Bop"), plus 3 other songs.

Polydor'southward beliefs in Sheridan's coming stardom were so strong that they buried the two solo Beatle tracks until much subsequently. Additionally John Lennon, Pete All-time and Tony Sheridan all swore that there were several other Beatle tracks that were recorded during the ii-day session, but they have not surfaced.^[eleven] In the Spring of 1962 in order to fulfill contractual obligations, the four surviving Beatles (plus Roy Young but without Sheridan) recorded an instrumental version of Sweet Georgia Brown; later, Sheridan cut his song overdub for the song while solo in the studio. (Reportedly "Swanee River" was likewise recorded past the Beatles and Roy Immature, though Polydor released a version in 1962 on Sheridan's album My Bonnie; however, Polydor states they've never establish this last recording). A newspaper story of the day also mentioned that Sheridan had recorded "You lot Are My Sunshine" with the Beatles as well for single release (it was also on his anthology likewise).

In 1962, after a serial of singles (the start of which, "My Bonnie"/"The Saints" made it to number 5 in the German nautical chart), the record was released in America on Decca with a black label and besides in a pink label for demo play. The tape has the distinction of being i of the most expensive collectible 45 rpm with the black label in mint status selling for $15,000 in 2007 and the pink label selling for $3000. Ringo Starr briefly played in Sheridan'south backing band during very early 1962, before returning to Rory Tempest and the Hurricanes. Starr was reportedly unhappy with Sheridan performing songs he had not rehearsed with his band (other musicians made the aforementioned complaint, too as near Sheridan's penchant for fist-fights).^[12]

As well in 1962, Polydor released the album My Bonnie across Germany. The discussion "Beatles" was judged to sound too similar to the Hamburgisch dialect word "Pidels" (pronounced "peedles"), the plural of a slang term for penis, hence the album was credited to "Tony Sheridan and the Beat Brothers".^{[xiii] [xiv]} After the Beatles had gained fame, the album was re-released in the United Kingdom, with the credit altered to "Tony Sheridan and the Beatles". The Beatles' Hamburg studio recordings, likewise as some live recordings from the same period, have been reissued many times.^[xv]

Later career [edit]

In the mid-1960s, Sheridan's musical style underwent a drastic transformation, abroad from his rock and curlicue roots and towards a more than blues- and jazz-oriented sound. Though these recordings were praised by some, many fans of his earlier work felt wildly disappointed. This change was presaged by liner notes from his 1964 album Just a Piddling Bit of Tony Sheridan in which his musical preferences are listed every bit "jazz and classical" rather than stone. The liner notes besides mention his wanting to visit the southern United states "to hear at first hand the original negro music and feel the temper that has been instrumental in creating negro jazz and the spiritual, for which he has a nifty liking."^[fifteen] Polydor connected releasing Tony Sheridan singles with German language record producer Jimmy Bowien through 1967 (though they only ever released ii albums by him).

Past 1967, Sheridan had go disillusioned with his Beatle-brought fame. As he was more concerned by the Vietnam State of war and the thought of further Communist aggression, as such Sheridan agreed to perform for the Centrolineal troops. While in Vietnam however, the band that he had assembled was fired upon and one of the members was killed. For his work entertaining the Allies, Sheridan was made an honorary Captain of the Usa Regular army.^[15] Due to the repeated shellings encountered there, Sheridan henceforth suffered a nifty sensitivity to the sounds of whatever kind of explosions, even fireworks.

With his Polydor contract gone, Sheridan did what he could to survive. In the early on 1970s, he managed to cutting a single as a pop duo teamed with Carole Bong, and they toured Europe together with off-white success. Post-obit that stage he returned to playing in Germany (unremarkably Hamburg) or London. The mid-1970s, saw him deejaying a W High german radio programme of blues music, which was well received. Somehow he then managed to record an unabridged alive album of early rock classics, a number of which had been function of his and the immature Beatles early live act but of which had never been recorded.

In 1978 a record producer in America heard Sheridan's early on Polydor recordings (with and without the young Beatles), and was impressed past Tony'southward singing and playing. Immediately Sheridan was offered and accustomed the offer to come up and record a whole studio album in Los Angeles. Elvis Presley'southward TCB Band, not working at the time, was hired to play on the album along with summit bassist (and quondam Hamburg friend) Klaus Voormann. An album of rock classics plus a few country tunes resulted, but with no major label release, it was restricted to straight TV sales. Thus the possible prospect of a long American career in Las Vegas evaporated.

In 1978, the Star Club was reopened, and Sheridan performed there along with Elvis Presley's TCB Ring.^[xvi]

In 1991, Joe Sunseri, Sheridan biographer and and then-director, completed Nobody'southward Child: The Tony Sheridan Story. Even so, due to a falling-out, the biography remained unpublished. A biography of Sheridan, titled The Teacher (ISBN 0957528507), was eventually published in 2013 past Norfolk author Alan Isle of man, a babyhood-friend of Sheridan. This book was essentially an electronic mail question and answer interview. While repeated probings past the author did bring out Sheridan's one time of two weeks spent in an English jail, bated from that the author unfortunately takes Sheridan'south memory of things at total face up value. On 13 August 2002, Sheridan released Vagabond, a collection largely of his own fabric, but also including a new cover version of "Skinny Minnie", a song he had years earlier recorded for his first album. Tony played guitar and sang for the Argentinian stone musician Charly Garcia. The anthology was chosen Influencia and information technology was released in 2002.^[17] In 2015, Colin "Melander" Crawley – Sheridan's onetime bassist, published some other biography, Tony Sheridan – The Ane The Beatles Called "The Teacher"(ISBN 9781515092612) . Of the ii published biographies it definitely gives the near insight into Sheridan'southward major career of the early 'sixty'south.

Personal life [edit]

Sheridan lived in Seestermühe, a village due north of Hamburg, and in add-on to music, in his later life he was interested in heraldry and designed coats of arms.^[18] Sheridan was extremely secretive about his personal life, although it's known that he was married 3 times, lastly to Anna Sievers, and previously to Rosi Heitmann and to Hazel Byng. His friend and erstwhile bassist Crawley stated that in 1960 Sheridan confided that despite his mixed Irish-Cosmic and Jewish background, he was at that point viewing himself every bit a Buddhist. Subsequently Sheridan became a devotee of the guru Bhagwan Sri Rajneesh and lived in the 1980s at the guru's Rajneeshpuram commune in Oregon, U.s.a..

Death [edit]

Tony Sheridan died on 16 February 2013 in Hamburg,^{[19] [20]} after undergoing center surgery.^[21]

Discography [edit]

Studio albums [edit]

• 1961: My Bonnie with The Beat Brothers (later changed to read with The Beatles after their success) #28 Billboard -- released in U.Due south. in 1964; Why #88 Billboard -- released in 1964
• 1964: Just a Little Fleck of Tony Sheridan with the Big Half-dozen
• 1984: Novus (Denmark)
• 1986: Ich lieb Dich so
• 1987: Dawn Colours (Italy) [The just Sheridan album to conduct a articulate dedication to his Beatle pals, though pointedly leaving out both Pete Best and the late Stuart Sutcliffe]. Information technology reads, "Defended To John, Paul, George, Ringo in fond recollection of the fantastic crazy days In Hamburg. Special Thanks To Albert Lee". All original Sheridan songs, though the final tune ("Adieu") shares the title with a Beatles-McCartney-penned tune.
• 1989: Here & At present! – features the early on stone / rhythm and dejection classic, "Money Honey", and new recordings of "What'd I Say" and "Skinny Minnie". (Sheridan's website has this every bit being released in 1988, a copyright observe also shows information technology equally being 1994).
• 2002: Vagabond
• 2018: Tony Sheridan and Opus 3 Artists ^[22]

Alive albums [edit]

• 1963: Twist at the Star Lodge Hamburg A alive anthology, Sheridan sings and plays on "Skinny Minny" and "What'd I Say" (under the pseudonym of "Dan Sherry") with the 'STAR COMBO' (a group including Roy Immature, Colin "Melander" Crawley, Ricky Barnes and Johnny Watson). He also plays on "The Star Combo'south" other iv songs (where Roy Young sings). This release was a rare LP on Philips. As noted Sheridan is credited every bit "Dan Sherry" though his film is clearly displayed on the front embrace singing at 'The Star Society' (with bassist Colin "Melander" Crawley and saxophonist Ricky Barnes). (At that place are songs by four other groups too).
• 1974: Tony Sheridan Rocks on aka Live in Berlin '73
• 1976: On My Heed (private release)
• 1996: Tony Sheridan & The Beat out Brothers Live And Dangerous (also released as "Rock Masters: Experience It" [Vanquish Brothers – Roy Young, Howie Casey – recordings of "Good Golly Miss Molly" and others. On some of these 1995 live-recordings the pb song is actually by Roy Immature (aka "the English Little Richard").
• 2004: Chantal Meets Tony Sheridan – only known live recording of the early McCartney/Sheridan song "Tell Me If Y'all Can"
• 2007: Tony Sheridan Live 2007 – Only known Sheridan recording of the Elvis classic "Don't Be Brutal", The Beatles "Yesterday", Chuck Berry's "Petty Queenie" medleyed with "Johnny B. Goode". Also present Buddy Holly's "Not Fade Away" and James Taylor'due south "You lot've Got A Friend". Album photos taken by Sheridan'south young wife Anna Sheridan.

EPs [edit]

• 1962: Mister Twist [fr] EP, released in France.^[23]
• 1962: Ya Ya EP, released in Frg.^[24]
• 2001: Historical Moments Tony Sheridan & Rod Davis (from John Lennon'due south Quarrymen) EP/CD
• 2005: Tell Me If You Can (EP) Chantal feat. Geff Harrison – Tony Sheridan – this Sheridan version runs 6 min. 24 sec. and was taped at the Abbey Route Studios. The other iii versions on this CD/EP are not by Sheridan.

Compilations [edit]

• 1964: Own't She Sweet (side 1) with the Beatles, recorded 1961
• 1966: See the Beat out (two versions, on x-inch, 12-inch and CD, but with radically different tracks, sharing only two songs. The 12-inch features 1966 recordings of "Jailhouse Rock", "Fever" and "Shake, Rattle and Roll")

Singles [edit]

• 1962: "Ich Lieb' Dich And so (Ecstasy)/Der Kiss - Me Vocal"
• 1965: "My Babe" (with the Big Vi)
• 1965: "Vive L'Amour" (Tony Sheridan & the Large Six, producer: Jimmy Bowien)
• 1967: "Ich Lass Dich Nie Wieder Geh'n" (producer: Jimmy Bowien)

Other recordings [edit]

• 1996 & 2001: Sheridan In Command (bootleg, too released as 'Fab Four Collection') "with The Trounce Brothers- Roy Immature, Howie Casey" – 1995 recordings of "Johnny B. Goode", "Coin", "My Bonnie", "Skinny Minnie"
• 2002: Influencia (As a guest artist of the Argentinian musician, Charly Garcia).
• 2008: ...and then it goes by Dave Humphries; Sheridan plays on five of 11 tracks^[25]

References [edit]

1. ^ ^{a b c d} Colin Larkin, ed. (1997). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music (Concise ed.). Virgin Books. p. 1079. ISBNi-85227-745-9.
2. ^ "Who Backed the Beatles?". Something Books. Retrieved 23 Feb 2013.
3. ^ James, Derek (18 February 2013). "Leave your memories of Tony Sheridan, the man who taught The Beatles to rock". Norwich Evening News . Retrieved 23 February 2013.
4. ^ Kozinn, Allan (17 February 2013). "Tony Sheridan, Colleague of Beatles, Is Dead at 72". The New York Times . Retrieved twenty Apr 2015.
5. ^ "The Shadows: biography". Billboard.
6. ^ Turner, Steve (1993). Cliff Richard: The Biography (1st ed.). Oxford, United kingdom: King of beasts. ISBN978-0-7324-0534-2.
7. ^ https://www.rte.ie/radio/doconone/771586-are-y'all-tony-sheridan Martin Duffy. Are You Tony Sheridan? (RTÉ Dr. on Ane radio documentary), 17 July 2010.
8. ^ "Elmore Magazine – R.I.P. Tony Sheridan". Elmore Mag.
9. ^ Cross 2004, p. 38.
10. ^ Lewisohn, Mark: All These Years Volume 1:The Beatles Tune In, Little Brown, London 2013,ISBN 978-0-316-72960-iv
11. ^ "The Beatles with Tony Sheridan". Friktech.com. Archived from the original on 7 July 2015. Retrieved xix Apr 2015.
12. ^ Infosite, Beatlesource.com; accessed 19 April 2015.
13. ^ Coleman, Miriam (17 February 2013). "Beatles collaborator Tony Sheridan dead at 72". Rolling Rock . Retrieved 23 Feb 2013.
14. ^ "One-fourth dimension Beatles frontman Tony Sheridan dies". Nme.com. 18 February 2013. Retrieved 23 February 2013.
15. ^ ^{a b c} "Tony Sheridan obituary". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved xix Apr 2015.
16. ^ Laing, Dave. "Tony Sheridan obituary". The Guardian . Retrieved 19 Apr 2015.
17. ^ "Influencia - Charly García | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic.
18. ^ "Beatles mentor Tony Sheridan dies in Hamburg". Dw.de (in German language).
19. ^ "Hamburg: Beatles-Lehrer Tony Sheridan ist tot". Spiegel Online (in German language). 17 February 2013. Retrieved 23 February 2013.
20. ^ "Tony Sheridan, Colleague of Beatles, Is Dead at 72". The New York Times. eighteen Feb 2013. Retrieved xix February 2013.
21. ^ Laing, Dave (18 February 2013). "Tony Sheridan obituary". The Guardian . Retrieved 23 February 2013.
22. ^ "Tony Sheridan and Opus 3 Artists". Opus3records.com.
23. ^ "Virtua Beatles Music: Polydor 21914: Mister Twist - Tony Sheridan". Virtuabeatlesmusic.blogspot.com. 27 October 2010.
24. ^ "Sweet Georgia Chocolate-brown". world wide web.beatlesbible.com. 26 July 2020.
25. ^ "Dave Humphries Entry". San Diego Reader . Retrieved 23 February 2013.

Further reading [edit]

• Leigh, Spencer (1 February 2013). "Tony Sheridan". Retrieved 31 May 2020.
• Sheridan biography, from Tony Sheridan'southward Website, retrieved from Archive.org, snapshot of August 27, 2007
• Daniels, Frank (1998, 2000, 2001) The Beatles with Tony Sheridan, retrieved one January 2005
• Cantankerous, Craig (2004). Day-Past-Day Song-Past-Song Record-By-Record. iUniverse. ISBN978-0-595-31487-four.
• Thorsten Knublauch and Axel Korinth: Komm, Gib Mir Deine Mitt – Die Beatles in Germany 1960–1970. Books on Demand Gmbh: 2008; ISBN 978-iii-8334-8530-v
• Krasker, Eric. The Beatles – Fact and Fiction 1960–1962, Paris, Séguier, 2009; ISBN 978-2-84049-523-nine
• Mann, Alan. "The Teacher: The Tony Sheridan Story", Norwich, AMPS, 2013; ISBN 978-0-9575285-0-5
• Crawley, Colin. "Tony Sheridan: The one The Beatles called 'The Teacher', 2015; ISBN 978-1515092612

External links [edit]

• Tony Sheridan at IMDb
• Alan Mann official web site of Tony Sheridan biographer Alan Mann.

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