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.
20 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 eventually came to play guitar, and in 1956, formed his first band.
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Tony Sheridan showed enough talent that he soon found himself playing in London's "Two I's" club for some six months straight.
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Tony Sheridan therefore escaped the road accident which would leave Cochran dead and Vincent badly injured.
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Tony Sheridan played guitar for Cherry Wainer on her recording of "Happy Organ".
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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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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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Tony Sheridan then managed to record an entire 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 recorded.
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Tony Sheridan immediately accepted an offer 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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On 13 August 2002, Tony Sheridan released Vagabond, largely a collection of his own material, but including a new cover version of "Skinny Minnie", a song he had recorded years earlier for his first album.
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Tony Sheridan played guitar and sang for the Argentinian rock musician Charly Garcia.
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Tony Sheridan lived in Seestermuhe, a village north of Hamburg, and in addition to music, in his later life he was interested in heraldry and designed coats of arms.
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Tony Sheridan was extremely secretive about his personal life, although it's known that he was married three times, lastly to Anna Sievers, and previously to Rosi Heitmann and to Hazel Byng.
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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.