La Fin de La Semaine Essay Question: Special "Beatles Selfies" Edition

Yeah, yeah, it's gimmicky. But it's also terrific.

That's the work of a British musical comedian/impressionist named Stevie Riks, who grew up Liverpool adjacent, and who's apparently been doing this kind of thing for a while now (you can find out more about him at his official website over HERE).

And I should add that if the actual Beatles had the same technology available to them back then, we can say with some certainty that they would have taken advantage of it.

In any event, this leads us inexorably to the subject of the weekend's business. To wit:

...and the best (or worst) single song or album by a post-1964 artist (solo or group) making obviously deliberate attempts to ape elements of the Fab Four's style/sound is...?

Discuss.

No arbitrary rules here, but let's just say that if you attempt to nominate an actual Beatles tribute band or the original cast album of Broadway's Beatlemania ("Not the Beatles, but an incredible simulation") I will come to your house very late on a weeknight and give you a severe tongue-lashing.

Anyway -- for my choice? Album-wise, I don't really have a dog in this hunt, sad to say. But an indivdual song? Well, this won't be a surprise to anybody who knows me, but IMHO this one is the ne plus ultra.

C'mon -- nobody but nobody has ever done it better. And the fact that it's by a bar band from down the street from my childhood digs in Teaneck, New Jersey makes it even more fun.

Alrighty then -- what would YOUR choices be?

And have a great weekend, everybody!

[h/t Ida Langsam]