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"Weird Al" Yankovic in 2003 "Weird Al" Yankovic is a multiple Grammy Award -winning American musician, satirist , parodist , accordionist , director , television producer, and author. He is known in particular for humorous songs which make fun of popular culture or parody specific songs by contemporary musical acts, or both.
The music video references the recording of Dylan's song, "Subterranean Homesick Blues" in the 1967 D. A. Pennebaker documentary Dont Look Back. [3] The video for "Bob" is similarly shot in black-and-white, and in the same back-alley setting, with Yankovic dressing as Dylan and dropping cue cards that have the song's lyrics on them, as Dylan did in the film.
Titled "Weird Al" Yankovic Live!, the concert was recorded at the Marin County Civic Center in San Rafael, California, on October 2, 1999. [146] For legal reasons, video clips (apart from those for Yankovic's own music videos) could not be shown for the home release, and unreleased parodies were removed from the parody medley for the ...
Even Worse is the fifth studio album by the American parody musician "Weird Al" Yankovic, released on April 12, 1988. The album was produced by former The McCoys guitarist Rick Derringer . Recorded between November 1987 and February 1988, this album helped to revitalize Yankovic's career after the critical and commercial failure of his previous ...
“Weird Al” Yankovic — portrayed by a curly-wigged Daniel Radcliffe — explains the origin of his popular song parody career in the official trailer for the upcoming “biopic” Weird: The ...
"Headline News" is a parody song by "Weird Al" Yankovic. It is a parody of the Crash Test Dummies' 1993 hit "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm". It was released as the lead-off single for the compilation box set Permanent Record: Al in the Box on September 27, 1994. The song was written after Yankovic's label insisted he craft a new song to promote the album ...
Alapalooza is the eighth studio album by the American parody musician "Weird Al" Yankovic, released in 1993.By the completion of his previous album, Off the Deep End, Yankovic had already written all of the original songs that he planned to use on his next release.
"Word Crimes" is a song by American musician "Weird Al" Yankovic from his fourteenth studio album, Mandatory Fun (2014). The song is a parody of the 2013 single "Blurred Lines" by Robin Thicke, featuring Pharrell Williams and T.I. The song spoofs misuse of proper English grammar and usage, reflecting Yankovic's own rigor for proper syntax and ...