I just heard that Astrid Kirchherr passed away.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/astrid-kirchherr-beatles-photographer-dead-obit-1000677/?fbclid=IwAR1eajGsS_PhmHJGClVh2wGx0ObW6_BDnU6PXLsxH97KNKXWEVmfTP7ypwE If you don't know her, she was the photographer who captured the iconic images of the Beatles early years playing seedy clubs in Hamburg in the very early 60s.
https://www.wmagazine.com/gallery/astrid-kirchherr-the-beatles-photographs-book/ She was also responsible for their mop-top haircuts and her friend Klaus Voorman designed the cover of the Beatles' Revolver album.
There have been surprisingly few Beatles movies, and maybe that's a good thing. I believe either Paul McCartney or George Harrison (or both?) walked out of their screening of Backbeat.
Don't let that stop you, though. Search high and low for a copy of this amazing film, Stephen Dorff (remember him?) gives a haunting performance as the 5th Beatle Stuart Sutcliffe, and the movie for the most part focuses on his relationship with John Lennon.
Again, Sheryl Lee is magnetic as Astrid, the German photographer who becomes intertwined with the band, and eventually with Stuart.
All the supporting cast shines as well, hardly a weak performance in the film.
The music is a fantastic take on early Beatles performing early rock and roll as almost a punk style. Indeed, most of the music is performed by modern alt-rockers like Dave Pirner (Soul Asylum) on vocals and Dave Grohl on drums.
Backbeat is an atmospheric, artsy take on love, friendship, art, passion, success, the cost of success, culture clashes and, if nothing else, takes the Beatles off the pantheon pedestal and puts them straight back into playing dirty, crazy, amazing rock and roll.