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panader0

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6. In the movie 'Backbeat' about the Beatles in Hamburg,

Reply to Dennis Donovan (Original post)

Tue Jun 23, 2020, 07:45 AM

Jun 2020

it shows Sutcliffe and Lennon get beat up by sailors in a Liverpool bar when they were
young and seems to connect that to his brain injury. I'm not sure if that was the Lathom Hall
incident mentioned. Backbeat was a decent movie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backbeat_(film)

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