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For Beatles Tribute Band, Belief in Yesterday Leads to Grammy Nomination
Nashville Public Radio
You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. Among the Nashville musicians in this year's Grammy nominations is a Beatles tribute band. The Wannabeatles' nomination isn't for music, it's for a collection of memories from Beatles fans.

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Back up bands added to Rock Hall
WTAM.com
In Britain, Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps were stars to a budding generation of musicians who would go on to form such bands as the Beatles and the Yardbirds. Bill Haley and His Comets were crucial to the rise of rock and roll, igniting the craze in ...

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Liverpool Legends head to Grammys
Branson Tri-Lakes news
By Tyler Francke | 0 comments Liverpool Legends, the Branson-based Beatles tribute band, is in Los Angeles this weekend to join in the festivities surrounding the 54th Annual Grammy Awards. A project on which the group collaborated is nominated for ...

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Will Adam Lambert join Queen?
Pasadena Star-News
The two surviving Beatles will also appear. Paul McCartney, whose new album of covers of songs he loved as a child in Liverpool, "Kisses from the Bottom, is his first studio record in five years, will perform. Ringo Starr, who also has a new album out, ...

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7 Ways The Beatles Changed Rock And Roll (PHOTOS)
Huffington Post (blog)
In my latest book, "If You Like the Beatles..." [Backbeat, $14.99] I discuss how the British rock sensation gave the cast of Rain and Beatlemania, as well as the Fab Faux and a phone book's worth of other tribute and cover bands a way to earn a living.


 
Jackson fans: He won't stop till you get enough
Winnipeg Free Press
And Hope has the trademark vocals down, Brennan says, from the "boy Michael" of Jackson Five hits like ABC and I Want You Back to the fierce, funky energy of Billie Jean, Beat It and Thriller, to the later artistry of Man in the Mirror.

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Beatles tribute at the Fox: You'll love it -- yeah, yeah, yeah
Belleville News Democrat
"Rain -- A Tribute to the Beatles" performs the entire range of The Beatles discography, taking the crowd back to a time when all you needed was love and a little help from your friends. They go back to the England and European club roots in 1963, ...

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