There’s a buzz around the Beatles again this year. November sees the fiftieth anniversary of the release of the White Album and will see the release of a remastered version along with demos and outtakes from the recording sessions.
There was another buzz around the Beatles in Manchester last night as the Opera House shook with delight to the music of the band at the production of Let It be.
A packed theatre,many in their sixties and seventies rocked to the sounds of Hey Jude,Twist and Shout and Get Back.
The first half of the show, which has been seen by over two million people worldwide and had a popular West End run, charts the band’s journey from the beginnings of Beatlemania through American tour hysteria to Sgt Pepper and Abbey Road
The second half is an imagined reunion concert marking John Lennon’s fortieth birthday just two months before the Beatle was gunned down on the streets of New York.
The musicianship of the four cannot be faulted especially Emanuele Angeletti who plays Paul McCartney’s ability to play the guitar both left and right handed.
John Brosnan who plays Harrison comes to the fore in the second half with some brilliant guitar solos while Michael Gagliano‘s Lennon plays to the crowd.
Interspersed on the screens footage of the sixties, bombs falling on Vietnam, Hurst scoring the winning goal at Wembley and showing just how far away the sixties now are,an advert for Capsun cigarettes featuring a couple getting married in church craving for a fag.
This show runs until this Saturday 27th,we’ll never get to see the real thing so get down their and catch this instead.
