In October 1961, Brian Epstein was the manager of his family s music store in Liverpool when an influx of requests from fans came in for an imported single called My Bonnie, by the Beatles.
Epstein was certain the song was actually by Tony Sheridan, an English singer who had spent much of his career working in Germany. But, it turned out, both parties were correct. We did a recording with Tony Sheridan, ‘My Bonnie’, for Bert Kaempfert, a band leader and producer, said Paul McCartney in the Beatles
Anthology book. It was actually ‘Tony Sheridan und die Beat Brothers. They didn’t like our name and said, ‘Change to the Beat Brothers; this is more understandable for the German audience.’ We went along with it – it was a record.