Library Rock's Backpages

Mistakes And All: Recreating The Fab Four in Beatlemania

John Mendelsohn, Los Angeles Times, 9 April 1978

IF THE FOUR young musicians who portray the Beatles in Beatlemania deliver anything less than the "incredible simulation" a sign in the Shubert Theater ticket window promises, it most assuredly isn’t because they haven’t taken extraordinary pains. In the cogent phrase of Jack Carone, who trained their local understudies. "They had to work much harder to redo than the Beatles had to work to do."

Total word count of piece: 1538

Subscribe

Becoming a member is easy. Membership gives you access to all the thousands of articles in the library.

Click here to go to Subscribe page.

Click here for academic and other group subscriptions.