| The Fab Four | |
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| Origin | California |
| Genres | Rock and Roll Beatles Tribute |
| Years active | 1997-Present |
| Labels | Delta Ent. (Laserlight), New World Digital |
| Website | www.TheFabFour.com |
| Members | |
| Ron McNeil Frank Canino Gilbert Bonilla Ardy Sarraf Frank Mendonca III Michael Amador Gavin Pring Rolo Sandoval Joe Balogna Luis Renteria |
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The Fab Four is a California-based tribute band paying homage to The Beatles. Founded in 1997 by Ron McNeil, John Lennon impersonator and President of The Fab Four Corp., the group began performing Beatles music throughout Southern California. The band’s beginning included regular performances at Disneyland's Tomorrowland Terrace, The Hop and Scruffy O’Sheas.
The original group, which includes McNeil, along with Ardy Sarraf, Rolo Sandoval and Michael Amador, have performed together as The Fab Four for the past 12 years, covering nearly the entire Beatles songbook, plus solo material as well.
In 2005, The Fab Four signed a contract in Las Vegas to perform a full stage show six nights a week. It was then decided that a second set of musicians would be brought in to form another cast that could be in Vegas or rotated on the road when needed. This second, or, Vegas cast was then given the name Fab Four Mania, and has been performing regularly in Sin City for the past four years at locations such as the Las Vegas Hilton,[1] The Aladdin, The Sahara[2] and most recently The Riviera.
This tribute has brought the music of The Beatles to many places including Japan, Malaysia, France, Hong Kong, The United Kingdom, Germany, Mexico and Brazil.
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Formed by Ardy Sarraf, Wingsband is a Paul McCartney and Wings tribute act that covers many of McCartney's biggest, post-Beatles hits. The band features Ron McNeil, Michael Amador and Rolo Sandoval, plus a horns section led by Wendell Kelly (who has performed with many music acts, including The Temptations, Stevie Wonder, Lionel Richie and Whitney Houston, to name a few), and singer/songwriter Christine Rosander as Linda McCartney. Both Laurence Juber, Wings guitarist from 1978–1981, and Denny Seiwell, the original Wings drummer from 1971–1973, have performed onstage with Wingsband at The Grove in Anaheim, CA.
George Harrison impersonator and Liverpool native, Gavin Pring, created an act called George Harry’s Son to celebrate Harrison’s solo material, as well as his hits from the Beatle years. Pring has brought this act to the top Beatles music festivals including the annual Beatleweek in Liverpool[3] at the Mathew Street Festival and Abbey Road on the River in the United States. Pring also performed on the same stage as Paul McCartney in 2002 for tribute show held on Harrison’s birthday.
In 2007, The Fab Four was approached by Eric Idle from the British comedy group Monty Python, to perform a set of shows celebrating the 30th anniversary of The Rutles, which was a Beatles parody group formed in 1975 by Idle and Neil Innes. The show featured McNeil as Ron Nasty (originally played by Innes), Sarraf as Dirk McQuickly (Idle), Amador as Stig O’Hara (Ricky Fataar) and Sandoval as Barry Wom (John Halsey), and was performed multiple nights in both Los Angeles[4][5] and New York.[6][7]
In 2010, The Fab Four was cast to do the motion-capture performance footage for director Robert Zemeckis' 3-D remake of The Beatles animated film classic, Yellow Submarine. The movie was set to be released sometime in 2012, but Disney canceled the project when Zemeckis' film "Mars Needs Moms" did terribly in the box office and critics reviews of Zemeckis' animations were mostly negative.[8][9][10][11][12]
All songs were arranged, performed, recorded and produced by The Fab Four, and were mastered by Evren Goknar at Capitol Studios in Hollywood, CA.
Release Date - October 16, 2002
Label - Delta Ent. (LaserLight)
Release Date - October 16, 2002
Label - Delta Ent. (LaserLight)
In 2008 the songs were digitally re-mastered and released on a single album titled, “HARK!”.[19]