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This is a list of cover versions by music artists who have recorded one or more songs written and originally recorded by English rock band The Beatles.Many albums have been created in dedication to the group, including film soundtracks, such as I Am Sam (2001) and Across the Universe (2007) and commemorative albums such as Sgt. Pepper Knew My Father (1988) and This Bird Has Flown (2005).
The name of the band, "Reign/Rain," is a reference to the 1966 Beatles single "Rain," the B-side of "Paperback Writer." [4] Co-founder and keyboardist Mark Lewis managed the band, became its lead arranger, and found Rain a regular weekly gig doing Beatles covers at the Mine Shaft in Calabasas, California. [6]
Song Year Beatles album Original artist Ref. "Anna (Go to Him)" 1963 Please Please Me: Arthur Alexander "Chains" The Cookies "Boys" The Shirelles "Baby It's You" The Shirelles "A Taste of Honey" Billy Dee Williams "Twist and Shout" The Top Notes "Till There Was You" With the Beatles: Sue Raney "Please Mr. Postman" The Marvelettes "Roll Over ...
Kula Shaker covered the song live at Reading Festival in 1996. The Grateful Dead played it twenty times throughout the early 1990s. Shoegaze band Chapterhouse covered the song for on their 1990 EP Sunburst. The Beatles tribute act Rain derives their name from the song. [91] Oasis first named themselves the Rain after the Beatles track. [23]
“Beatles ’64” opens with an extended sequence devoted to the early-’60s reign of John F. Kennedy — because, as has been noted so often, JFK was assassinated just a little over two months ...
The documentary Now And Then – The Last Beatles Song will premiere at 7.30pm on November 1 on The Beatles’ YouTube channel. The song will be released at 2pm on November 2 as a double A-side ...
The Beatles have inspired a number of tribute acts and theatrical productions; among them are the American Beatles tribute band Rain (originally Reign), which evolved into the stage production Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles; [2] [3] the Cirque du Soleil stage production Love, which utilizes music from an accompanying 2006 remix album of the ...
The tape was passed on to the surviving Beatles members in 1994 by Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, and featured the songs "Free as a Bird" and "Real Love," which were both reworked by the surviving ...