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Yoko Ono, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr unveil a tribute to John Lennon and George Harrison in celebration of the first anniversary of The Beatles Love by Cirque du Soleil at The Mirage.
If you're looking for some reliably entertaining music, songs you likely know by heart played at optimum proficiency, hit the Club at the Cannery tonight at 8 for a multimedia presentation featuring the great Beatles cover band The Fab. The music will be pulled from "A Hard Day's Night" and "Help," interspersed with a presentation of the band's legendary appearances on "The Ed Sullivan Show."I shall introduce the band and, just in case, I will pack my electric maracas. The show runs form 8 to 10 p.m. Tickets are $10.
I first encountered Pat Woodward and the boys long ago, just after moving to Las Vegas in 1996. They were playing the old lounge at Palace Station, and a friend rushed over to me and said, "I just saw this band you've got to see! They're playing "Free As a Bird," which was the most recent Beatles "single," pasted together for the "Anthology" series using an old demo tape of John Lennon singing into a recorder.
As I said at the time, they looked like The Eagles but sounded like The Beatles. I've seen them in so many venues over the years -- Mad Dogs & Englishmen, Eastside Cannery, outdoors at The District -- and they never fail to put a smile on my face.
It'll be fun to catch up with the crew.
