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Carlsen Center Event: 1964 The Tribute
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You Say You Want a Revolution?
In 1964, the Beatles invaded America, and there was no counterattack. America joined the rest of the world in complete surrender to Beatlemania. The Beatles’ appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show in February of that year was the most important event in rock history.
If you lived through the rock revolution or merely wish you had, you can now experience the most authentic, most endearing Beatles tribute in the world, 1964 ... The Tribute, at 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, May 1-2, at Yardley Hall of the Carlsen Center, Johnson County Community College.
“1964 ... The Tribute is the number one Beatles show on Earth,” said Rolling Stone Magazine.
Grant it, the Beatles are a hard act to follow, especially since the Fab Four achieved musical sainthood. But this group, The #1 Beatles Show in the World band, is good, selling out Carnegie Hall eight times to crowds of fans, dancing, singing and screaming excitement. Beatles’ ankle-high boots, thin black ties, vintage suits, Vox amplifiers, mop-top hair, on-stage mannerisms and the unmistakable harmonies of the lads from Liverpool make 1964 the most accurate and fun Beatles tribute to date.
Gary Grimes as Paul McCartney, Mark Benson as John Lennon, Tom Work as George Harrison and Terry Manfredi as Ringo Starr deliver a performance that is historically and emotionally captivating with songs like I Want To Hold Your Hand, From Me To You, Day Tripper, This Boy, Long Tall Sally, I’ll Follow the Sun and Spoil the Party. They play a set of early Beatles' tunes, and, true to the ‘60s, fans rush to the stage after the show.
“The resemblance was uncanny. It sent shivers down my spine,” said Alistair Taylor, former president of Apple Records. “It was just like the boys. Never have I seen another group go to so much detail.”
Mandy Johnson, reporter for the entertainment paper Mersey-Beat, writing about 1964 ... The Tribute at Carnegie Hall said, “It’s a brilliant historical reenactment of four eager musicians from a tough English seaport who came, in their words, ‘just to have a laugh and play our music,’ but stayed to change the world; who also brought with them hope at a time when the world needed it.”
Tickets for 1964 ... The Tribute are $25 and $35, available by calling the Carlsen Center box office, 913-469-4445, or online at www.jccc.edu/TheSeries.
