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Tony Sheridan and Kingsize Taylor: The Forgotten Kings of Beat

Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 29 February 1964

AS HAS possibly been observed before, it is all happening in Hamburg. There is more big beat per square yard on the Reeperbahn, with its nest of clubs, than in most other cities in Europe. And, of course, groups like the Beatles, Gerry and the Pacemakers and the Searchers cut their molars on experience gained from long hours in clubs like the Star and the Top Ten.

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