Beatles ’84 pt3
It's summer 1984, and to ring in the 4th of July The Beach Boys are playing to.record-shattering attendance in Washington D.C. - with some special guests. Emerging in support of his former 60s rivals was Ringo Starr, joining Mike, Carl, Bruce and Al to play some of the Beach Boys biggest hits - as well as a rousing rendition of Back in the USSR (written in the style of the Beach Boys by Paul back in 68). Another throwback too came in July upon the release of the Everly Brothers new LP You Make It Seem So Easy, featuring the undeniably catchy McCartney-penned On The Wings of a Nightingale. To round out the summer, a second posthumous John Lennon recording - John's vocal take on Yoko's Every Man Has A Woman - heralded an entire LP collection of Yoko Ono covers by a variety of artists from Elvis Costello to Eddie Money and many more. All this on the eve of yet another Lennon LP release, though the next on the horizon was not by JOHN... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.