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Sheridan may refer to:

People[link]

Given name[link]

• Sheridan Le Fanu (1814–1873), Irish novelist and short-story writer
• Sheridan Morley (1941–2007), broadcaster and writer
• Sheridan Smith (born 1981), British actress
• Sheridan Tongue (year of birth missing), British composer

Surname[link]

• Andrew Sheridan (born 1979), English rugby player
• Ann Sheridan (1915–1967), American film actress
• Beatriz Sheridan (1934–2006), Mexican actress and director
• Chris Sheridan (director)
• Chris Sheridan (sportswriter)
• Cillian Sheridan (born 1989), Irish footballer
• Clare Frewen Sheridan (1885–1970), British sculptress
• Cosy Sheridan (born 1964), American folk singer/songwriter
• Danny Sheridan, entertainment manager
• Darren Sheridan (born 1967), English footballer
• Dave Sheridan (actor) (born 1969), American actor
• Dave Sheridan (cartoonist) (1943–1982), American cartoonist
• Dinah Sheridan (born 1920), English-born actress
• Eileen Sheridan (disambiguation)
• Eve Sheridan, fictional character
• Frances Sheridan (1724–1766), Irish novelist and dramatist
• Gail Sheridan, American actress
• George A. Sheridan (1840–1896), American politician
• Georgette Sheridan (born 1952), member of the Canadian House of Commons
• Greg Sheridan, Australian journalist
• Guillermo Sheridan (born 1950), Mexican writer
• Jack Sheridan (1862–1914), American baseball umpire
• Jim Sheridan (politician) (born 1952), Scottish politician
• Jamey Sheridan (born 1951), American actor
• Jeff Sheridan (born 1948), American magician
• Jim Sheridan (born 1949), Irish film director
• John Sheridan (footballer) (born 1964), English-born footballer
• John Sheridan (Royal Navy officer) (c. 1770 – 1862), naval officer
• John D. Sheridan (1903–1980), Irish writer and humourist
• John E. Sheridan (1902–1987), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania
• Keith Sheridan (born 1971), Scottish cricketer
• Kelly Sheridan (born 1977), Canadian voice actor
• Lawrence A. Sheridan (1919–2001), Louisiana politician
• Leisa Sheridan (born 1964), American model and actress
• Lisa Sheridan (born 1974), American actress
• Liz Sheridan (born 1929), American actress
• Martin Sheridan (1881–1918), athlete
• Matt Sheridan (born 1977), professional Canadian football offensive lineman
• Michael Sheridan (disambiguation), various including:
  • Michael Sheridan (musician), Australian guitarist
  • Michael Sheridan (Irish politician) (died 1970), Irish Fianna Fáil politician
  • Michael John Sheridan (born 1945), Bishop of Colorado Springs
  • Michael J. Sheridan (born 1958), Democratic member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
• Mike Sheridan (born 1991), Danish producer of electronic music
• Nicole Sheridan (born 1975), porn star
• Nicollette Sheridan (born 1963), British actress
• Pat Sheridan (born 1957), former professional baseball player
• Philip Sheridan (1831–1888), United States Army General and namesake of the M551 Sheridan
• Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816), pre-eminent Irish playwright (The Rivals), poet and politician
• Richard Brinsley Sheridan (MP) (born 1806), British politician
• Rondell Sheridan (born 1958), American actor and comedian
• Steven Foley-Sheridan (born 1986), Irish footballer
• Susan Sheridan (born 1947), English voice actress
• Thomas Sheridan (actor) (1719–1788), Irish actor, theatre manager and elocution teacher
• Thomas B. Sheridan (born 1931), professor of mechanical engineering at MIT
• Tommy Sheridan (born 1964), Scottish politician
• Tony Sheridan (born 1940), English rock and roll singer-songwriter
• Will Sheridan (born 1985), NCAA basketball player and singer, entertainer
• "Sheridan", one of several aliases used by dance music producer Eric Prydz

Characters[link]

• Sheridan Bucket, an unseen character in the British sitcom Keeping Up Appearances
• Anna Sheridan, in the science fiction series Babylon 5
• David Sheridan (Babylon 5), in the science fiction series Babylon 5
• John Sheridan (Babylon 5), in the science fiction series Babylon 5

Places[link]

United Kingdom[link]

• Sheridan, County Fermanagh, a townland in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland

United States[link]

• Sheridan, Arkansas
• Sheridan, California (disambiguation)
• Sheridan, Colorado
• Sheridan, Illinois
• Sheridan, Indiana
• Sheridan, Michigan
• Sheridan, Missouri
• Sheridan, Montana
• Sheridan, Nevada
• Sheridan, New York
• Sheridan, Oregon
• Sheridan, Texas
• Sheridan, Wisconsin, a town
• Sheridan, Washington
• Sheridan, Waupaca County, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
• Sheridan, Wyoming
• Fort Sheridan, Illinois, a former United States Army fort
  • Fort Sheridan (Metra), a Metra station serving the Fort Sheridan neighborhood
• Mount Sheridan, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
• Sheridan County (disambiguation), several counties
• Sheridan Circle, Washington, D.C.
• Sheridan, Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Sheridan Road, a road between Chicago and Racine, Wisconsin
• Sheridan Township (disambiguation), several places

Canada[link]

• Sheridan, town in Ontario, Canada

Other uses[link]

• Sheridan (CTA station), an 'L' station on the Chicago Transit Authority's Red Line
• M551 Sheridan, light tank
• Sheridan College, in Ontario, Canada
• Sheridan's, an alcoholic drink
• Sheridan (automobile), a brand of American automobile manufactured from 1920-1921

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Tony Sheridan
Tony Sheridan performing live, November 2004
Background information
Birth name	Anthony Esmond Sheridan McGinnity
Born	(1940-05-21) 21 May 1940 (age 72) Norwich, Norfolk
Origin	Liverpool, England
Genres	Rock and roll, rock
Occupations	Singer-songwriter, musician
Instruments	violin, guitar
Years active	1958–present
Labels	Polydor
Associated acts	The Beat Brothers
Website	www.tony-sheridan.de

Tony Sheridan (born Anthony Esmond Sheridan McGinnity on 21 May 1940 in Norwich, Norfolk), is an English rock and roll singer-songwriter and guitarist. He is best known as an early collaborator of The Beatles, (though the record was labelled as being with "The Beat Brothers"), one of two non-Beatles (the other being Billy Preston) to receive label performance credit on a record with the group, and the only non-Beatle to appear as lead singer on a Beatles recording which charted as a single.

Biography[link]

In his early life, Sheridan was influenced by his parents' interest in classical music, and by age seven, he had learned to play the violin. He eventually came to play guitar, and in 1956, formed his first band. He showed enough talent that he soon found himself playing in London's "Two I's" club for some six months straight, but at the same time he also found himself reduced to sleeping in doorways. In 1958, at 18, he began appearing on the BBC's Oh Boy, playing electric guitar on such early Rock classics as "Blue Suede Shoes", "Glad All Over", "Mighty Mighty Man" and "Oh Boy!". Sheridan was soon viewed as a very promising guitarist and as such was employed backing a number of singers, reportedly including Gene Vincent and Conway Twitty while they were in England. Early in 1960, Sheridan performed in a package tour of the United Kingdom which also included Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran. On April 17, Vincent and Cochran rebuffed his request to ride along with them to the next venue, but he thereby escaped the road accident which would leave Cochran dead and Vincent badly injured.^[1] He also played guitar for Cherry Wainer on her recording of "Happy Organ".

Despite these successes, his penchant for being late, showing up without his guitar etc., soon got him a reputation for having gone a bit "haywire", and cost him much of his professional standing in England. Providentially his little band was offered a gig in Bruno Koschmider's "Kaiserkeller" club in Hamburg, Germany. As fate would have it, his bandmates soon packed up and left Germany, but Sheridan remained behind. In a bizarre twist a young Liverpool rock group was then booked by Liverpool club-owner/manager Allan Williams to play in Koschmieder's second club "The Indra", and thus the young, raw Beatles came face to face with "professional" musician Tony Sheridan and his now makeshift band. This face to face contact rapidly grew into mutual great admiration, particularly on the part of young George Harrison, who, as lead guitarist for the Beatles, never missed a chance to corner fellow lead guitarist Sheridan and practice with him endlessly.^{[citation needed]}

While performing in Hamburg between 1960 and 1963, Sheridan employed various backup bands, most of which were really "pickup bands", or simply an amalgamam of various musicians, rather than a group proper. However, in 1961, the young Beatles (with their line-up at the time of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Pete Best) who had met and admired Sheridan during their first visit to Hamburg in 1960, and who openly worked with him on their second visit, became even closer. The relationship was largely symbiotic, with the Beatles sometimes backing Sheridan, but with Sheridan often joining the Beatles during their own sets back them playing guitar.^[2] When German Polydor producer/A and R man Bert Kaempfert saw the pairing on stage, he suggested that Sheridan and the Beatles make some recordings together. Kaempfert viewed Sheridan as the one with "star" potential, and though they signed the Beatles to play on Sheridan's records their contract with them stipulated that the four Beatles (Lennon, McCartney, Harrison and Best) only had to play on a minimum of two songs. Of the seven songs recorded during Sheridan's two day-long sessions for Polydor in June 1961, it should be pointed out that at times the band behind Sheridan would be down to only two Beatles, and that conversely only on their two solo songs do all four Beatles play (minus Sheridan), while Sheridan plays on all of his tracks. These sessions produced Sheridan's "My Bonnie" and "The Saints", and the Beatles' "Ain't She Sweet" and "Cry for a Shadow" (formerly titled "Beatle Bop"), plus three other songs. Polydor's beliefs in Sheridan's coming stardom were so strong that they buried the two solo Beatle tracks until much later. And additionally both John Lennon and Tony Sheridan swore that there were several other Beatle tracks that were recorded during the two-day session, but that either they were not preserved OR something else happened to them.

In 1962, after a series of singles (the first of which, "My Bonnie"/"The Saints" made it to #5 in the Hit Parade), the record was released in America on Decca with a black label and also in a pink label for demo play. The record has the distinction of being one of the most expensive collectible 45 rpm with the black label in mint condition selling for $15,000 in 2007 and the pink label selling for $3000. Ringo Starr also very briefly played in Sheridan's backing band during very early 1962, before returning to Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. Starr was reportedly unhappy with Sheridan performing songs he had not rehearsed with his band. Ringo thus narrowly missed playing on Sheridan's album debut.

Also in 1962, Polydor released the album My Bonnie across Germany. The word Beatles was judged to sound too similar to the Hamburgisch Pidels (pronounced peedles), the plural of a slang term for penis, hence the album was credited to Tony Sheridan and The Beat Brothers.^{[citation needed]} After the Beatles had gained fame, the album was re-released in the United Kingdom, with the credit altered to "Tony Sheridan and The Beatles". The Beatles' Hamburg studio recordings, as well as some live recordings from the same period, have been reissued several times over the decades.

At a point in the mid-Sixties Sheridan's whole musical style underwent an abrupt transformation, away from his rock and roll roots and towards a more blues and jazz oriented sound. Though these recordings were praised by some, many fans of his earlier work felt disappointed. This change was presaged by liner notes from his 1964 album Just a Little Bit of Tony Sheridan where his musical preferences are listed as "jazz and classical" rather than rock. The same 1964 liner notes mention his wanting to go to the southern US "to hear at first hand the original negro music and experience the atmosphere that has been instrumental in creating negro jazz and the spiritual, for which he has a great liking".

Tony Sheridan went on very successfully singing and playing in Hamburg at the same club for quite a number of years, but eventually lost his recording contract with Polydor.

By 1967, Sheridan had become disillusioned with his Beatle-brought fame. As he was more concerned by the Vietnam War, Sheridan agreed to perform for the Allied troops. While in Vietnam however, the band that he had assembled was fired upon and one of the members was killed. Reuters reported that Sheridan himself had died. For his work entertaining the Allies, Sheridan was made an honorary Captain of the United States army.

In the early 1970s, Sheridan managed a West German radio programme of blues music, which was well received. In 1978, the Star Club was reopened, and Sheridan performed there along with Elvis Presley's TCB Band.

On 13 August 2002, Sheridan released Vagabond, a collection largely of his own material, but also including a new cover version of "Skinny Minnie", a song he had years earlier recorded for his first album. Tony played guitar and sang for the Argentinean rock musician Charly Garcia. The album was called Influencia and it was released in 2002.

Today, Tony Sheridan lives in Seestermühe, a village north of Hamburg. In addition to music, he is interested in heraldry and designs coats of arms.

Discography[link]

• 1961: My Bonnie with The Beat Brothers/Beatles
• 1962: single "Ich Lieb' Dich So (Ecstasy)/Der Kiss - Me Song" ("Ecstasy" was co-written by Phil Spector, who turns up in the Beatles' lives much later)
• 1964: Just a Little Bit of Tony Sheridan with The Big Six
• 1964: "Ain't She Sweet" (side 1) with the Beatles, recorded 1961
• 1965: My Babe with The Big Six
• 1966: Meet The Beat (two versions, on 10" and 12" & CD, but with radically different tracks, sharing only two songs. The 12" features 1966 recordings of "Jailhouse Rock", "Fever", and "Shake, Rattle and Roll")
• 1974: Live in Berlin '73
• 1976: On My Mind (private release)
• 1984: Novus
• 1986: Ich lieb Dich so'
• 1994: Here & Now! - features the rhythm and blues classic, "Money Honey", and new recordings of "What'd I Say" and "Skinny Minnie"
• 1996: Tony Sheridan & The Beat Brothers Live And Dangerous [band—Howie Casey, Roy Young] - recordings of "Good Golly Miss Molly" and others.
• 2001: Fab Four Collection "with The Beat Brothers" - 1996 recordings of "Johnny B. Goode", "Money", "My Bonnie", "Skinny Minnie"
• 2002: Vagabond
• 2004: Chantal Meets Tony Sheridan - only known recording of the early McCartney/Sheridan song "Tell Me If You Can"
• 2008: ...and so it goes by Dave Humphries; Sheridan plays on 5 of 11 tracks ^[3]

References[link]

1. ^ Martin Duffy, producer. Are You Tony Sheridan?.Radio documentary, first broadcast July 17, 2010 on RTÉ.
2. ^ Cross 2004, p. 38.
3. ^ San Diego Reader Dave Humphries Entry

2007- Sheridan released a CD on Wemo Records (Germany), featuring a live concert performed in Dernbach, Germany in November 2007. A|t that concert an American guitarist Demian Bell joined Sheridan on stage and played several songs in an impromptu performance which was captured on a DVD, also released by Wemo Records.

References[link]

• PayBack Productions (2001, 2002) About Tony, retrieved Dec. 28, 2004
• http://www.tony-sheridan.de/start/biography.php?lang=en, retrieved Dec. 28, 2004
• Daniels, Frank (1998, 2000, 2001) The Beatles with Tony Sheridan, retrieved Jan. 1, 2005

Reference-Books[link]

• Cross, Craig (2004). Day-By-Day Song-By-Song Record-By-Record. iUniverse. ISBN 978-0-595-31487-4. 
• Thorsten Knublauch und Axel Korinth: Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand – Die Beatles in Deutschland 1960–1970. Books on Demand Gmbh: 2008. ISBN 978-3-8334-8530-5
• Eric Krasker, The Beatles - Fact and Fiction 1960-1962, Paris, Séguier, 2009. ISBN 978-2-84049-523-9

External links[link]

• Tony Sheridan official website
• "Are You Tony Sheridan?" - documentary from RTE Radio, Ireland

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Mike Sheridan
Born	1991
Nationality	Denmark
Occupation	Record producer
Known for	Den 11. time (TV)

Mike Sheridan (born 1991) is a Danish producer of electronic music. His first album was released in 2008 and was on the Danish record chart for 7 weeks.^[1] He has been performing live in Barcelona and Berlin and various other places. He has also participated in the television show "Den 11. time" which was broadcasted on DR2 in May 2007.^[2]

Discography[link]

Albums[link]

Singles[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Mike Sheridan on Myspace

Sheridan Smith (born 25 June 1981) is an English actress and singer known for her contributions to the British sitcoms Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, Gavin & Stacey and Benidorm. She is also a critically acclaimed West End theatre actress; winning 2 prestigious Laurence Olivier Awards in 2 consecutive years^[1]. In 2011, she won the Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical for originating the role of Elle Woods in Legally Blonde the Musical and, in 2012, received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role for her performance as Doris in the revival of Flare Path.^[2][3]

Early life and career[link]

Smith was born in Epworth, Lincolnshire and from an early age studied dance with the Joyce Mason School of Dancing in Scunthorpe She also trained in movement and dance with Kay Traviss. She attended South Axholme Community School where she studied Performing Arts. She was a member of the National Youth Music Theatre from 1995–2001, performing a number of lead roles in productions such as Bugsy Malone and Into the Woods.

Television and Film[link]

From 1999 to 2000, Smith played Emma, the girlfriend of Antony (Ralf Little) in The Royle Family, but has not appeared in later episodes; she has also played Janet in the long running series Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, the girlfriend, then wife, then widow of Johnny (also portrayed by Ralf Little) from 2001 until her departure from the show in 2009.

In 2004, she made a one-episode appearance in Mile High as Suzy, an airport cleaner who was so desperate to become cabin crew, she impersonated a flight attendant. She also featured in The Comic Strip's 2005 episode "Sex Actually" as Angie.

Smith played Cleo Martin in Love Soup and also starred as Michelle, a hypocritical nutritionist, in the sitcom Grownups. The first series aired on BBC Three on 7 May 2006, followed by a second series that started on 5 August 2007 and the third series began filming in October 2008. She has also appeared on The Lenny Henry Show as M.E. Westmocott, a role spoofing the various medical examiners on CSI. In the 2009 Two Pints of Lager Comic Relief special, which crossed over with Grownups, Smith played her characters from both series.^[4]

Smith has also appeared in a number of other shows including the BBC's Eyes Down alongside Paul O'Grady in which she played the part of Sandy, and smaller parts in shows such as The Bill and Fat Friends. She featured in the second and third series of another BBC Three sitcom, Gavin & Stacey, co-written by James Corden, as his character Smithy's sister Rudi (also known as Smithy).

Smith guest-starred in the Christmas 2008 episode of Lark Rise to Candleford and appeared on New Year's Day 2009 in "The Grinning Man", a special episode of Jonathan Creek, alongside Alan Davies.^[5] She also appeared in The Judas Tree, an Easter special aired on 4 April 2010, playing the same character. She was also a regular in Benidorm series three playing the Liverpudlian, Brandy in 2009.

During 2010 Smith acted as a mentor to the contestants of the BBC show Over the Rainbow. She appeared as a guest on the BBC show The One Show on 3 August 2010.

Sky Arts' Chekhov Comedy Shorts also featured Smith in 2010 when she starred in The Proposal, as Natasha (re-uniting her with Gavin and Stacey actor Mathew Horne).^[6] The programme was first shown on 28 November 2010.

Smith will make an appearance in the forthcoming movie Hysteria, which is due to be released in Autumn 2011. Her role will see her taking part in a three-and-a-half-minute orgasm scene.^[7] She is also slated for a role in A Fantastic Fear of Everything, an upcoming film starring Simon Pegg.

With the return of Bizarre ER Smith does the voice overs taking over from Freema Agyeman. Smith has been named as part of the cast of the ITV1 film adaption of Daphne du Maurier's novel The Scapegoat.^[8]

Radio[link]

Smith played companion Lucie Miller alongside Paul McGann's Eighth Doctor in a radio series of Doctor Who, produced by Big Finish and transmitted on BBC 7 from New Year's Eve 2006; the plays returned in a second series released on CD and scheduled for BBC 7 broadcast. A third series of adventures for Lucie and the Doctor aired in March 2009, as weekly half-hour downloads followed by a Christmas Special. She also appeared as Ruby Ruggles in the 2008 radio serial The Way We Live Right Now, and took over the role of Tamsin Trelawny in series 2 of Elephants to Catch Eels on BBC Radio 4.

Theatre[link]

Smith's theatre credits include the musical Into the Woods at London's Donmar Warehouse,^[9] and Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park.^[10]

She also played Audrey in the stage production of Little Shop of Horrors at The Menier Chocolate Factory, London, from November 2006 which then moved to The Duke of York's Theatre in March 2007, and due to a very successful run moved again at the end of June 2007 to The New Ambassadors Theatre, its run ended in September 2007. Smith received a nomination for the 2008 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical, for her performance in the show.^[11]

Smith appeared as Vanessa in Tinderbox: a Revenge Comedy by Lucy Kirkwood at the Bush Theatre, Shepherd's Bush, in April 2008.^[12]

Smith originated the role of Elle Woods in the musical version of Legally Blonde in its transfer from Broadway to London's West End in December 2009.^[13] Ex-Blue boyband member Duncan James played opposite Smith until June 2010, when he was replaced by Richard Fleeshman. Other cast members Sheridan has performed alongside include Aoife Mulholland as Brooke, Denise Van Outen as Paulette, Peter Davison as Professor Callahan.^[14] Her performance was well received, the Daily Telegraph describing her as: "blessed with vitality, warmth, great comic timing and sudden moments of touching vulnerability. She is infinitely more likeable than Reese Witherspoon in the film."^[15]

Smith was originally supposed to leave Legally Blonde on 23 October 2010, but she extended her run to 8 January 2011, when Susan McFadden took over the role.^[16]

For her role in Legally Blonde, Smith won the WhatsOnStage.com Theatregoers' Choice Award for Best Actress in a Musical.^[17] She was also nominated for the Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress and was the winner of the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical.^[18][19]

Between March and June 2011, she appeared in Trevor Nunn's production of Flare Path at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket as Doris, a former barmaid married to a Polish count in the RAF. The production was part of the playwright Terence Rattigan's centenary year celebrations and also starred Sienna Miller and James Purefoy. For this role she won the 2012 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role^[20], the 2011 Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress^[3] and the BroadwayWorld UK Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play.^[21]

As well as her role in Legally Blonde, Smith also performed the title role in the workshop productions of a new musical adaptation of Bridget Jones' Diary. She has stated that the musical will not reach the stage until 2012, with Smith taking on the title role in what would be the original London cast.^[22] On April 5, 2012, it was announced that Smith had decided to pull out of the musical, and would no longer be playing the title role, delaying the production of the show.^[23]

Personal life[link]

Smith was in a relationship with James Corden, which ended in June 2009.^[24]

On 6 March 2010, in an interview with the Mail on Sunday, Smith revealed that she and Scottish actor Ross McCall had begun dating after a 10 year friendship.^[25] However she spoke to The Daily Telegraph in August the same year and revealed that they had split up due to the pressure of a long distance relationship.^[26]

Filmography[link]

Awards and nominations[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Sheridan Smith at the Internet Movie Database