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]
30 comments:
Buddy Randell is about to poke that mouthpiece into his eye.
Heh.
Their Satanic Majesties Request - The Rolling Stones
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
Captain Al
Tell us more about The Knickerbockers being from the Teaneck area. I thought they were a midwest band. What do I know?
Captain Al
They were all from Bergenfield, and the band name derives from Knickerbocker Avenue in Tenafly.
The Wonders in That Thing You Do. Cleveland Jeff
Not sure it quite meets the criteria, but Big Daddy's re-imagining(?) of the entire Sgt Pepper's album is ...something.
Wow -- that completely slipped my mind, but yeah. 😎
I dunno, steve, I found that video super creepy and unpleasant.
Matter of taste, obviously, but I got chills when the cover photo from "Beatles for Sale" started to come to life.
Emmitt Rhodes's first two albums and, of course, the Zombies' Oracle and Oddesey.
And everything Jeff Lynne has ever touched...
How about Big star
The Spongetones (especially the album "Beat Music" and EP "Torn Apart"). And Utopia’s “Deface the Music."
Badfinger - Come and Get It. How many folks think that's the Beatles?
The Rutles! (Obviously)
I think we've discussed it before, but I remember Beatles bootlegs that included Peter Cook and Dudley Moore's "LS Bumblebee" as a lost Beatles cut. I'm sure many people believed it really was the Beatles.
The Monkees Pleasant Valley Sunday is obviously paying tribute to / emulating Penny Lane imo. Interestingly, the song was in fact written by Goffin- King.
rs
I meant The Stones' 'Satanic' emulating The Beatles 'Sgt. Pepper" if that was unclear.
Captain Al
I figured.😎
And Rhodes' previous band The Merry-Go-Round.
Some of the Guided By Voices' stuff is clearly derivative of the Beatles, in a very good way - the songs "As We Go Up, We Go Down" and "Chicken Blows" on ALIEN LANES, or "Mincer Ray" and "Echos Myron" on BEE THOUSAND.
Klaatu - debut album in 1976 "3:47 EST" had everybody talking way back in 1976
Just one more, while not an attempt to emulate the Beatles sound -
The album cover of We're Only In It For The Money parody of the Fab 4s SPLHCB costumes - Zappa & The Mothers ...
And while we're talking about hometown bands ... the Outsiders, from Cleveland, beyoches
Pete, when I go into my minds
Wayback Machine could their song have been " Time Won't Let Me" ?
Deface The Music - Utopia
AHHH! Yes!!!!
Okay, I've been waiting for that one. 😎
Easy Star Stars Reggae version of SPLHCB
Flaming Lips and...
With A Little Help From My Fwends
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