The Bootleg Beatles

Formed from the West End cast of the Broadway musical 'Beatlemania', The Bootleg Beatles' career began at a now long forgotten student's bash in Tiverton, Devon, UK on March 26th 1980 - almost ten years to the day since Paul McCartney announced the original's had split. Giving themselves six months to make or break it, the group signed up to the late Brian Epstein's NEMS agency. The new band's calendar slowly filled with a mix of all-night college balls and tough tours of the Working Men's Clubs of the North of England and Scotland - The Bootleg's Hamburg.

As the eighties wound down the world's first 'tribute' band were ready for a fresh challenge - the story had only just begun.