Less than 10 years after the Beatles broke up came the first of numerous movies about them. Released Nov. 23, 1979 and shown as a TV movie on ABC in the U.S., Birth of the Beatles focused on their beginnings as one of many struggling Liverpool bands up through their conquering of America.
The movie begins in 1960, when the trio of John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison (Stephen MacKenna, Rod Culbertson and John Altman, respectively) picked up Lennon's friend Stu Sutcliffe (David Nicholas Wilkinson) and drummer Pete Best (Ryan Michael). Along the way it covers their woodshedding days in Hamburg, Brian Epstein (Brian Jameson) convincing them to have him as their manager, the failed Decca audition and the replacing of Best with Ringo Starr (Ray Ashcroft) on the eve of their first session, concluding with their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show.
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