Andre Barreau

Andre Barreau
Live at Wellington Country Park, Berkshire in 2006.
Background information
Genres	Pop, rock
Occupation(s)	Musician
Instruments	Electric guitar, bass guitar, vocals
Years active	1980–present
Associated acts	The Bootleg Beatles

Andre Barreau is a former member of The Bootleg Beatles, in which he played George Harrison from March 1980, when the group was formed, until 2014.

The Bootleg Beatles

Following the final show of the West End musical Beatlemania, Barreau formed The Bootleg Beatles with fellow cast members Neil Harrison and David Catlin-Birch. The band invested their dwindling finances in two guitars – an Epiphone and a Gretsch – as well as two Vox amplifiers, four black polo-necks and a wig.^[1]

Credits

Stage

• Beatlemania (1979–1980) – George Harrison
• The Bootleg Beatles (1980–2014) – George Harrison, Audio Visual Research and Artistic Director

Discography

• "Angels," song by Robbie Williams (1997) – Lead guitar
• "Call Me a Fool" on the original soundtrack for Sliding Doors (1998)^[2]
• As I Was Saying, album by John Howard (2005) – Guitars
• Same Bed, Different Dreams, album by John Howard (2006) – Guitars
• Dangerous Parking (2007) – Composer

References

1. The Bootleg Beatles Souvenir Programme 2004–2005
2. A close friend of film director Peter Howitt for over thirty years, Barreau's band, Those Magnificent Men, were featured in Howitt's 1998 film Sliding Doors. In 2007, Barreau composed the original music for Howitt's film Dangerous Parking.