March 11th: Cafe´ Rendez Vous, Aalborg
While recording the Album 'Novus' at the Stuk Ranch in Sønderholm Nibe, with Phil Barret as producer, Tony Sheridan found time only to one performance. Setlist is unknown.
April 17th: Finn-In Night Club in Skive April 20th: Sysseltinget, Hjørring April 21st: Grotten, Skanderborg April 26th: Excalibur, Frederikshavn April 28th: Knaspers, Give May 2nd: Maxim, Randers May 3rd: Rainbow/Compas Club, Vejle May 8th: Vor Frue Kirkeplads, Aalborg May 11th: Tropicana, Aarhus May 19th: Peter Baadsmand, Løkken
In the period April 17th to May 19th 1984, The Booking Agency 'CB & Ole B.' arranged a tour with 10 stops in Jutland, titled 'The Golden Sixties', with Stan Urban from Scotland, The Teenbeats from Liverpool, and Tony Sheridan. On May 3rd, also the band 'Candy' performed. At the concert on May 8th, Tony Sheridan performed as a solo artist.
At the concert on May 11th, Tony Sheridan had fallen ill, so only Stan Urban and The Teenbeats performed
When I was very young, I lived in Aarhus, and I was already a huge Beatles fan back then. Therefore, of course, I knew Tony Sheridan and his significance to the Beatles in the early Hamburg days. Imagine my surprise when Tony Sheridan suddenly appeared in Aarhus in 1984. Yes, it was almost as freaky as when Sheridan arrives in St. Pauli in a yellow UFO in the German sci-fi novel by Alan Mann: Their Teacher: The Tony Sheridan Story!
I first heard about Sheridan's arrival in Aarhus – called the city of smiles - in one of the brand new local radios back then, where the Beatles expert Torben Skøtt did a lengthy interview with Sheridan, who told us his whole story: The collaboration with the Beatles in Hamburg, the fatal tour with Eddie Cochran, playing for the American troops in Vietnam and recording an LP with Elvis Presley's TCB Band – and not least he told us about his brand new album recorded in Denmark: NOVUS ("The chance of a lifetime", he called it). Yes, and then he told me about an unknown song he claimed to have written with Paul McCartney way back when in Hamburg: "Tell me if you can". "Maybe I'll record it one day!" he said – and luckily he did so 20 years later in 2005 (together with the German group Chantal). By the way I think it's the same track as the lyrics McCartney calls "Tell me who he is" in his big LYRICS book, but that's a whole different story ...
When a concert with Sheridan was announced one spring evening in 1984 at the Tropicana – a place with a 'palm garden' atmosphere I never used to frequent – I showed up as the very first in an almost empty room. However, the bartender gave me the disappointing news that Sheridan unfortunately had fallen ill, so instead I was able to experience the pianist Stan Urban and the group The Teenbeats. It turned out that way, but it was Sheridan I had come to see! Fortunately, the chance came a few years later (see text about "Tony Sheridan live at Down-Town, Aarhus 1988").
August 9th: Von Hatten, Randers August 10th: Cafe´ Rendez Vous, Aalborg
In August Tony Sheridan went back to Jutland to finish his 'Novus' album. He also performed twice as a solo artist. After the show in Aalborg, he attended a planned jam session with local musicians. Setlists are unknown.