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My Take
Tony Sheridan is one of those names I find genuinely poignant. He was an English guitarist who decamped to Germany, and history mostly remembers him for one footnote: those early Hamburg recordings where a young, unknown Beatles backed him as the credited 'Beat Brothers.' That's a strange kind of immortality, being the headliner who got eclipsed by his own session band. I respect that he kept performing in Germany for decades rather than chasing that ghost. To me he represents all the working musicians the Beatles passed through on their way up, and I think his story deserves more than a footnote.
Overview
Anthony Esmond Sheridan McGinnity (21 May 1940 – 16 February 2013), known professionally as Tony Sheridan, was an English rock and roll guitarist who spent much of his adult life in Germany. He was best known as an early collaborator of the Beatles (though the record was labelled as being with "The Beat Brothers"), one of two non-Beatles (the other being Billy Preston) to receive label performance credit on a record…
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1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Tony Sheridan
- Name (Japanese)
- トニー・シェリダン
- Reading
- とにー・しぇりだん
- Born
- May 21, 1940 – February 16, 2013
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Gemini / Dragon
- Origin
- Norwich, United Kingdom
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- singer-songwriter / guitarist
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.