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He Knew Them When
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Dead: Tony Sheridan, at 72, and, yes, he was the singer who used the pre-stardom Beatles as his house band at the Top Ten Club and backing group for "My Bonnie" and "When the Saints Go Marching In" (standards insisted upon by Polydor Records' Bert Kaempfert, the guy whose own music became standard for 1960s kiddie TV shows in the U.S. (see "Los Angeles Channel 52 Music")). He was the bigger star in Hamburg in those days, and he influenced their early look (he sent them to the shop where they got their leather jackets before Brian Epstein put them in lapel-less suits), music (R&B), and first drug of choice (Preludin). He later performed for American troops in Vietnam and recorded his last album in 2002; he played a show at Beatlefair in San Diego just last year. (Daily Telegraph)
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