Backbeat with Colin Jackson-Brown

"We're gonna be big Stu, we're gonna be too big for Liverpool, we're gonna be too big for Hamburg, we're gonna be too big for our own bloody good!"

In the latest episode of AT THE MOVIES IN THE 90s, your host A. J. Black is joined by previous guest, music podcaster Colin Jackson-Brown, to look at the unheralded early Beatles biopic from 1994, Backbeat.

Set in Germany at the top of the 1960s, Iain Softley's debut feature examines the history of the 'fifth Beatle' Stuart Sutcliffe and his friendship with John Lennon, as the nascent pop band who will conquer the world come together. Softley's film is in danger of being forgotten as a musical curio, despite a rocking soundtrack and interesting performances, but why? We try to find out...

Host / Editor

A. J. Black

Guest

Colin Jackson-Brown

Producer

Mark McManus

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