{"id":2655,"date":"2013-02-19T06:07:58","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T06:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/02\/19\/beatles-collaborator-tony-sheridan-dies-aged-72\/"},"modified":"2013-02-19T06:07:58","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T06:07:58","slug":"beatles-collaborator-tony-sheridan-dies-aged-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2013\/02\/19\/beatles-collaborator-tony-sheridan-dies-aged-72\/","title":{"rendered":"Beatles collaborator Tony Sheridan dies aged 72"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/0\/08\/TonySheridan.jpg\/300px-TonySheridan.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"155\" height=\"103\" \/><br \/>Tony Sheridan, the rock and roll artist who collaborated with The Beatles on their very first recording session, has died aged 72.  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>Sheridan first met the Beatles during the group&#8217;s formative period in Hamburg, Germany in the early 1960s.<\/p>\n<p>Performing under the name Tony Sheridan and the Beat Brothers, the Beatles &#8211; then featuring Pete Best on drums &#8211; backed the singer on recordings of My Bonnie, Ain&#8217;t She Sweet and When The Saints Go Marching In.<\/p>\n<p>The Beatles were great fans of Sheridan&#8217;s, turning up to see him play live many times in Hamburg and backing him on stage.<\/p>\n<p>Paul McCartney has referred to Sheridan as &#8216;the teacher&#8217;; a mark of respect over the artist&#8217;s influence on the band. That was particularly true of the Fab Four&#8217;s trademark early &#8217;60s look.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Music Week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Sheridan, the rock and roll artist who collaborated with The Beatles on their very&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}