1. Anthony Esmond Sheridan McGinnity, known professionally as Tony Sheridan, was an English rock and roll guitarist who spent much of his adult life in Germany.
21 Facts About Tony Sheridan
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Tony Sheridan was best known as an early collaborator of The Beatles, one of two non-Beatles to receive label performance credit on a record with the group, and the only non-Beatle to appear as lead singer on a Beatles recording which charted as a single.
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Tony Sheridan had a leading role in the school production of The Mikado in 1951 and played the violin in the orchestra.
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Tony Sheridan eventually came to play guitar, and in 1956, formed his first skiffle band.
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Tony Sheridan later went to The 2i's Coffee Bar in London's Soho, where he showed enough talent that he soon found himself playing there for some six months straight.
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Tony Sheridan was employed backing a number of singers, reportedly including Gene Vincent and Conway Twitty while they were in England.
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Tony Sheridan therefore escaped the road accident which would leave Cochran dead and Vincent badly injured.
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Ringo Starr briefly played in Tony Sheridan's backing band during very early 1962, before returning to Rory Storm and the Hurricanes.
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Starr was reportedly unhappy with Tony Sheridan performing songs he had not rehearsed with his band.
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Conversely some say that only on their two songs do all four Beatles play, while Tony Sheridan plays on all of his tracks.
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Two more songs without Tony Sheridan were recorded by The Beatles: "Ain't She Sweet" and "Cry for a Shadow".
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Polydor's beliefs in Tony Sheridan's coming stardom were so strong that they buried the two Beatles tracks until much later.
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Tony Sheridan then managed to record a live album of early rock classics, a number of which had been part of his and the early Beatles live act but had never been released.
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Tony Sheridan immediately accepted an offer to record a whole studio album in Los Angeles.
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In 1978, the Star Club was reopened, and Tony Sheridan performed there along with Elvis Presley's TCB Band.
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One of the highlights of the night, was the live performance of Tony Sheridan's song "Tell Me If You Can", which he co-wrote with Paul McCartney during their time in Hamburg more than 40 years prior.
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In 2005 the Ensemble CHANTAL and Tony Sheridan produced the first studio version of the song "Tell Me If You Can" recorded at Abbey Road Studios, which was issued as a CD-Single including an instrumental version.
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Tony Sheridan was charismatic, and could play a lead guitar that must have left George Harrison slack-jawed with envy.
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Tony Sheridan was a rock 'n' roll wild cat who always did his own thing and went his own way.
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Later Tony Sheridan became a devotee of the guru Bhagwan Sri Rajneesh and lived in the 1980s at the guru's Rajneeshpuram commune in Oregon, United States.
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Tony Sheridan died on 16 February 2013 in Hamburg, after undergoing heart surgery.