Tony Sheridan
Tony Sheridan (born May 21, 1940 in Norwich , England ; † February 16, 2013 in Hamburg , Germany ; actually Anthony Esmond Sheridan McGinnity ) was a British musician . In the early 1960s he was one of the founders of beat music .
Life
Anthony Esmond Sheridan McGinnity was the son of an Irishman and an Englishwoman. He grew up under the influence of classical music and learned to play the violin at an early age . As a talented student, he moved from high school to the Norwich Arts School and swapped violin for guitar as a teenager. In 1956 he founded his first skiffle group The Saints , with which he moved to London in 1957. There Tony Sheridan quickly became a sought-after guest musician . He accompanied Conway Twitty , Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran on tours, was guitarist for Vince Taylor & The Playboys from late 1958 to 1959 and was the first musician to be given the opportunity to play on the BBC TV show Oh Boy hosted by Jack Goode on the British BBC Performing live on television on May 9, 1959 with an electric guitar and Buddy Holly songs. In 1959 he founded the Tony Sheridan Trio with Brian Locking and Brian Bennett, who both later ended up with Cliff Richard's group The Shadows , and toured as the backing band for the Eddie Cochran & Gene Vincent rock 'n' roll show . This tour ended with the tragic death of Eddie Cochran.
After Hamburg it verschlug Tony Sheridan as a member of the group The Jets in 1960, where she in " Kaiser Keller " on the " Grosse Freiheit occurred". Members of the Jets were drawn back to England, while Tony Sheridan stayed in Hamburg and appeared as a solo singer in the “ Top Ten Club ” on the Reeperbahn . He was accompanied by various bands, for example Gerry & the Pacemakers , but the best-known group were a couple of young musicians from Liverpool who called themselves The Beatles and at that time five of them performed with Stuart Sutcliffe on bass and Pete Best on drums. The Beatles not only accompanied Tony Sheridan on stage, they also lived together for months and spent a large part of their limited free time together. Even today Paul McCartney speaks of Sheridan as the "Teacher", and George Harrison and John Lennon learned some techniques and tricks on the guitar from him. Under the direction of music producer Bert Kaempfert , Tony Sheridan recorded nine tracks for Polydor in 1961 with the Beatles, which, due to an objection from the record company, appeared as Beat Brothers on this recording . Among them was the title My Bonnie , which at least reached number 32 in the German charts at the end of 1961 and thus co-founded the success of the Beatles, as the later manager of the Beatles, Brian Epstein , became interested in the group due to the demand for this single started.
Tony Sheridan was later awarded a gold record for this LP for over 1,000,000 copies sold by then.
A reunion with the Beatles took place in April 1962 when the legendary " Star Club " was opened. The program included the Beatles and Tony Sheridan. When the Beatles last performed at the Star Club in December 1962, McCartney and Tony Sheridan wrote their only joint composition: Tell Me If You Can . During the years in Hamburg Tony Sheridan recorded several albums for Polydor, his biggest hit during this time was Skinny Minnie , recorded in 1964 with the band Big Six from Scotland . In the same year he went on a tour through Australia , due to the great success of his local hit Why .
In Sydney Sheridan visited the family of his Scottish saxophonist Alex Young. The younger Young brothers, Angus and Malcolm , stormed Sheridan to show them his guitar style for hours, which he loved to do. They later formed the band AC / DC .
After performing in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, France, Israel, Australia, Czechoslovakia, Scandinavia, the Netherlands, England and Ireland between 1960 and 1967, he went to Vietnam in August 1967 as a US troop escort . After his return at the end of 1969, Sheridan went back to Germany and from then on toured Europe, sometimes living in London. It was during this time that Sheridan's interest in religious subjects such as Buddhism was aroused.
Back from Vietnam, Tony Sheridan switched to " unplugged " music. His solo appearances, some of which were his own, were heavily influenced by blues and folk influences. In the 1970s he took over the moderation and compilation of the first blues radio show on Norddeutscher Rundfunk ( NDR 2 ) Blues on Tuesday , which ran successfully and appealed to a large fan base, especially in the GDR (from 1986, six tours followed by invitation in the GDR the state concert agency). In 1972, together with his wife at the time Carole (ex-member of the English vocal trio The Three Bells ), he recorded the German-language single I believe in you , as the original German recording of their English-language hit hit I Believe In Love . With this title they were u. a. represented in the new presentations of the 36th edition of the ZDF hit parade on July 8, 1972. Originally, the second German-language single, also for 1972, was planned to be released again. It should contain the titles Better to have you and When the big rain comes . Both contributions were never published on vinyl, however, neither a single nor an LP edition are known. The title Lieber hab ich dich was first made available to an interested public in 2002, in which it was taken into account for the CD release 1000 needle stitches - Americans and Brits sing German: The 1970s . In 1978 a request from the USA drew him to Los Angeles , where he - as the first musician after Elvis Presley's death - recorded the album Worlds Apart with Presley's TCB band and Klaus Voormann . During this time he opened the second Hamburg Star Club with the TCB band.
Looking for himself for years, Tony Sheridan became a sannyasin in 1982 and was given the name Swami Prabhu Sharan.
After further concert tours around the world, Sheridan ended up in Italy in 1986, where he recorded the LP Dawn Colors with his old friend, the guitarist Albert Lee , which only contained his own songs. Further album productions with various musicians worldwide followed in the years that followed, mostly with Sheridan's own compositions. Various successful tours through Europe, the USA and Asia followed until today. In 1986 he moved with his fifth wife, an art and German studies student, to the Unterbarmen district of Wuppertal , where he stayed for only three years before moving to the vicinity of Hamburg.
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Since 1989, and especially in the 1990s, Sheridan has been regularly accompanied on tours throughout Germany by the German rock 'n' roll cover band Larry and the Handjive . In 2002, Bear Family Records released the album Vagabond , which only contained Sheridan compositions. On December 20, 2003 Tony Sheridan ventured into the film industry - in the anniversary episode of the ZDF crime series Stubbe - from case to case Sheridan was seen as a star guest at the side of Wolfgang Stumph . At the end of 2004 the live CD and DVD Chantal meets Tony Sheridan were released , on which Sheridan's titles, from the early 1960s to today, are interpreted with orchestral accompaniment in a new musical guise - including the McCartney-Sheridan composition Tell Me If You Can . In 2008 Sheridan performed with Chuck Berry in Germany.
With his own band, Tony Sheridan offered a live program that presented different styles: rock, blues, folk and ballads.
On August 6, 2005 Tony Sheridan married his longtime partner and manager Anja (called Anna) Sievers in the monastery church Uetersen . She died of a serious illness in September 2011 at the age of 34. On September 18, 2011, Tony Sheridan gave a farewell concert for his deceased wife in the museum barn in Langes Tannen as part of the matine series “… again and again on Sundays”.
Tony Sheridan last lived in Seestermühe (Pinneberg district) in Schleswig-Holstein. He died on February 16, 2013 after a long and serious illness in the Asklepios Clinic in Barmbek . He was buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg, grid square AD 14 (north of Nordteich ).
His daughter Clare Sheridan took part in the casting show " The Voice of Germany " in 2013 , but left after the blind auditions.
literature
- Thorsten Knublauch, Axel Korinth: Come on, give me your hand - The Beatles in Germany 1960–1970 . Books on Demand GmbH, 2008, ISBN 978-3-8334-8530-5 .
- Richard Albrecht , Tony Sheridan - that was only fifty years ago… In: Information, 42 (2012) II, pp. 343–345; extended web version with linked songs
Discography
Albums
This list includes all the regular studio and live albums that Tony Sheridan released during his lifetime. Unauthorized albums like Live And Dangerous , from which Sheridan always distanced himself , were not recorded .
- Tony Sheridan and the Beat Brothers: My Bonnie (1962)
- Tony Sheridan & Big Six: Just a Little Bit Of (1964)
- Tony Sheridan & The Beatles: The Beatles' First (1964)
- Various, u. a. Tony Sheridan Twist in Star Club II (1964)
- Tony Sheridan: Meet the Beat , Version 1 (1965)
- Tony Sheridan: Meet the Beat , Version 2 (1965)
- Tony Sheridan: "Rock On!" (Live in Berlin '73) (1974)
- Tony Sheridan: On My Mind , private pressing (1976)
- Tony Sheridan & the Elvis Presley Band: Worlds Apart (1978)
- Tony Sheridan: Novus (1984)
- Tony Sheridan: Dawn Colors (1987)
- Tony Sheridan: Here and Now (1988)
- Tony Sheridan: Vagabond (2002)
- Tony Sheridan et al. a .: Chantal Meets Tony Sheridan (2004)
Singles
The German-language first publications were used until 1967, a single was released in Australia in 1969, the singles 1973–1975 appeared in the national language either exclusively in Germany or Great Britain. The following recordings only appeared in Germany.
- Tony Sheridan & the Beat Brothers (The Beatles): My Bonnie (German Intro) / The Saints , 1961
- Tony Sheridan & Orchester Bert Kaempfert: I love you so / The Kiss Me Song , 1962
- Tony Sheridan & the Beat Brothers: You Are My Sunshine / Swanee River , 1962
- Tony Sheridan & the Beat Brothers: Madison Kid / Let's Dance , 1962
- Tony Sheridan & the Beat Brothers: Ruby Baby / What'd I Say , 1963
A-side: Joey Dee and the Starlighters; B-side: Star Combo
- Tony Sheridan & the Beat Brothers (Star Combo): Veedeboom Slop Slop / Let's Slop , 1963
- Tony Sheridan & the Big Six (Bobby Patrick Big Six): Jambalaya / Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow , 1964
- Tony Sheridan & the Big Six (Bobby Patrick Big Six): Skinny Minny (Version 2) / Sweet Georgia Brown (Version 1) , 1964
- Tony Sheridan & the Beat Brothers (The Beatles): Sweet Georgia Brown / Nobodys Child (Version 2) , 1965
B-side: Tony Sheridan Solo
- Tony Sheridan & the Beat Brothers (Bobby Patrick Big Six): Do-Re-Mi / My Babe , 1965
- Tony Sheridan & the Big Six: Shake It Some More / La Bamba , 1965
- Tony Sheridan & the Big Six: Vive l'amour / Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop , 1965
- Tony Sheridan & the Big Six: Just You and Me / The Creep , 1966
A-side: studio musician
- Tony Sheridan: Wolgalied / Alles aus Liebe zu dir , 1966
- Tony Sheridan: I want to stay with you / I'll never let you go again , 1967
- Tony Sheridan & The Big Six: Jailhouse Rock / Skinny Minny (Version 2)
- Tony Sheridan: I've Been Loving You / I've Had My Yesterdays , 1969
- Tony Sheridan & Carole Bell: I believe in you / Monday Morning , 1972
- Tony Sheridan & Carole Bell: I Believe In Love / Monday Morning , 1972
- Tony Sheridan & Carole Bell: I Was All Alone / Come Inside, 1972
- Tony Sheridan: Live in Berlin '73: Whole Lot of Shakin 'Going On / Skinny Minny Reprise , 1974
- Tony Sheridan: Lonely / If She'd Have Stayed , 1975
- Tony Sheridan & Carole Bell: I'd Rather Have You / When the Big Rain Comes , 2005
- Chantal et al. a. Tony Sheridan Tell Me If You Can , CD single 2010
EPs
- Tony Sheridan: Mister Twist , (France - 1962) with the Beatles
Publication in France; under the title "My Bonnie" in 1963 in Great Britain
- Tony Sheridan & the Beat Brothers: Ya Ya , (1962)
- Tony Sheridan & Big Six: Skinny Minnie , (1964)
Compilations Tony Sheridan as a solo artist - selection
- Tony Sheridan Best Of 1964
- On this LP there is a version of "Swanee River" without an introduction
- Tony Sheridan & the Big Six: My Babe , 1965
- Tony Sheridan: What'd I Say , 1973
- Tony Sheridan: I love you so much, 1986
A collection of Tony's German-language songs from the 1960s
- Tony Sheridan: Tony Sheridan Vol. 1 (The Singles 1961–1964) , 1991
- Tony Sheridan: Tony Sheridan Vol. 2 (The Singles 1965–1968) , 1991
- Various artists: Back then in Hamburg
Extended CD version of “I love you so” and additional songs by other artists.
Compilations Tony Sheridan with the Beatles (selection)
This part of the discography is the most confusing. The recordings of Tony Sheridan and the Beatles were reprinted on many labels - often semi-legally or even illegally. However, there are always the same eight Hamburg pieces, often some have been left out and between four to eight pieces by Tony Sheridan added, which do not contain any new material.
The most extensive compilation is the double CD Beatles Bop - The Hamburg Days . All known official versions of the eight songs are on these recordings. The second version of Sweet Georgia Brown was first featured on Tony Sheridan Vol. 3 on CD. The re-release of the British deluxe release of The Beatles First includes Ya Ya Part 1 and Ya Ya Part 2 as one song.
- Tony Sheridan & the Beatles: In the Beginning , 1970
- The Beatles Featuring Tony Sheridan: The Beatles First , 1976 (UK:
gold) - Tony Sheridan & the Beatles, Star Combo & Roy Young: Tony Sheridan Vol. 3 , 1991
- Tony Sheridan & the Beatles: Beatles Bop - The Hamburg Days , 2001
- The Beatles With Tony Sheridan: First Recordings . 50th Anniversary Edition, 2011
Contributions to samplers and vocal contributions to albums by other artists
- Diverse: Live at the Star Club (Rock n'Roll at the Star Club February 8, 1980) , 1980
- Skinny Minny, My Bonnie
- Diverse Live in Hamburg '80 (Rock'n'Roll Is Still Alive ...) , 1980
- Lucille
- Various Oxmox - Hamburg Live 1981 , 1981
- Breaking Up Inside
- Tony Sheridan: Volume 3 , 1991
- C-Jam Twist , Rip It Up , Keep A Knocking , Margie , Skinny Minny , What'd I Say In addition to the well-known pieces with the Beatles, 6 pieces with the Star Combo ended up here, the pieces were originally on the sampler " Various artists: Twist in the Star Club Hamburg "(Live Recordings), see point H.
- Larry And The Handjive: Vol . 11 , 1992
- If Was Alright Them , Blue Sweet Shoes , A Mess of Blues
- Christinan Salvesen: Paste Life , 1994
- Stillness Is the Way, I Got So Mutch
- Bodhi Khalid: Mother Earth Carry Me 1997
- The River Is Flowing (vocal) , A Heart Like a Sun (vocal) , Go Your Way (solo-guitar) , Like a Hollow Bamboo (guitar)
- Tony Sheridan & Rod Davis (John Lennon's Quarrymen): Historical Moments 2001,
- In the Evening , Come Go with Me , Twenty Flight Rock Private pressing of the Beatarchiv in Glauchau
- Charly Garcia: Influencia , 2002
- I'm Not in Love (vocal & guitar) , I'm Not in Love (acustico) , I'm Not in Love (remix)
- Andy Lee Lang: Rockin 'with My Friends , 2009
- Skinny Minny
- Henner Hoier & Friends: Eldorado , 2009
- Highway to the Stars
Audio book
- "The Beatles - The Audiostory"
download only, read by Tony Sheridan.
Semi-legal publications
In 1996, three CDs with live recordings by Tony Sheridan were released by very small labels. These CDs were released without the consent of the musicians involved. The material was partially stretched with the live recordings of the Beatles in the Hamburg Star Club. Sheridan has always distanced himself from it.
- Tony Sheridan & the Beat Brothers: Live and Dangerous
- Tony Sheridan: In Control
- Tony Sheridan & the Beatbrothers: Legend: The History of the Beat Brothers
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- ↑ Edo Reents: Here instead of in the middle. , faz.net, February 18, 2013, accessed February 18, 2013
- Jump up ↑ Barry Miles: Paul McCartney: Many years from now, translated by Carl-Ludwig Reichert and Fritz Schneider, Rowohlt-Taschenbuch, Reinbek 1999, ISBN 3-499-60892-8 , p. 100
- ↑ Allan Kozinn : Tony Sheridon, Colleague of Beatles, Is Dead at 72. In: The New York Times. February 17, 2013, accessed February 17, 2013
- ↑ Bernd Matheja in the booklet for the CD publication: 1000 pin pricks - Americans and British sing in German: The 1970s , BCD 16577 AH, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-89795-833-3 , p. 7
- ↑ Bernd Matheja in the booklet for the CD publication: 1000 pin pricks - Americans and British sing in German: The 1970s , BCD 16577 AH, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-89795-833-3 , p. 7
- ↑ Tony Sheridan: The Barmer Years of the Beatles Explorer, February 18, 2013, accessed February 21, 2013
- ↑ Uetersener Nachrichten of September 16, 2011 "It was the wish of my late wife"
- ↑ NDR : Mourning for Beatles sponsor Tony Sheridan ( Memento from February 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) from February 17, 2013 (online no longer available, as of May 21, 2015)
- ↑ Klaus Plath: "The Teacher" is dead - Tony Sheridan died on Saturday . In: Uetersener Nachrichten . 149. Vol. 41 of February 18, 2013, p. 1.
- ↑ Celebrity Graves
- ↑ knerger.de: Tony Sheridan's grave
- ↑ mopo.de: Sheridan's daughter conquers "The Voice" article from November 2, 2013
- ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK
Web links
- Tony Sheridan in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website ( Memento of December 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sheridan, Tony |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | McGinnity, Anthony Esmond Sheridan (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 21, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Norwich , England |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 16, 2013 |
| Place of death | Hamburg , Germany |