coloured rain

Backbeat is a fictionalised account of one of the many Beatle visits to Hamburg in their early career. Before Ringo joined and when Stuart Sutcliffe, their bassist and close friend of John, fell in love with Astrid Kirchherr, an artist. Brilliant, funny, witty and flawed and has a superb central performance by Ian Hart as John Lennon.


( on bass, recently arrived from the dark side of the moon, Mr. Stuart Sutcliffe )