SUB brings Beatles' tunes to campus
Stephen Brown
Reporter
A Beatles look-alike band,
1964: The Tribute will be
bringing a British re-invasion to
Elon College April 23 for a
concert sponsored by the Student
Union B(»ni.
1964: The Tribute has been
performing it’s Beatles show all
over North America for close to
10 years and has been hailed as
one of the most authentic Beatles
tribute bands ever.
The band has been featured
on nationally televised programs,
such as Entertainment Tonight,
PM Magazine, The USA Netwoilc
and The Nashville Network.
“Their look, their sound and
even their mannerisms are
perfect,” said Mark Heilman, the
band’s agent, of Group “H”
Nashville.
These four men, Mark
Benson, Gary Grimes, Tom Work
and Terry Manfredi are spitting
images of the real John, Paul,
George and Ringo.
The Student Union Board,
which is sponsoring the event, has
been saving all year for this.
“It’s a big band without a
really big price,” John Keegan,
SUB club chairperson, said.
“Interest seems really high
and for a dollar, we think the turn
out wHl be great,” Keegan said.
All of the proceeds earned
from this band will be given
directly to Habitat for Humanitv.
The concert will be held in
the new gym or outside if the
weather permits. As it did several
years ago, the magic of this band
should capture the interests of
Elon students, “wherever they
play,” Heilman said.
The members of 1964: The
Tribute, all in their early forties,
and all out of Akron, Ohio, have
never met nor even seen in person
the real Beatles, but they did grow
up in the era of the British
Invasion.
Their interests were spawned
when, in their teens, they first
heard the music of the original
British legends and ever since they
have labored to p^fect their acts
right down to the minutest detail.
“We were impacted early, and
now we hope to be giving others a
taste of what we felt. The music
of the Beatles is still popular, and
we hope to keep it that way,”
Mark Benson, who plays John
Lennon, said.
Although 1964: The Tribute
continues to l)e a success with
fans, (mostly college students)
things were not always smooth
and easy.
“The band just recently ended
a two-year law suit brought
against them by APPLE Records
over Ucide rights,” Heilman said.
APPLE, which at the time
owned the rights to the Beatles,
sued on account of irreparable
damage.
According to Heilman, the
band had to change its name from
1964: As The Beatles to 1964:
The Tribute. They had to remove
the word Beatles from their posters
and band equipment and had to pay
a minor fine, which was less than
they offered to pay six months
earlier.
“Why they (APPLE) went
through so much to get so little is
something I’ll never understand,”
Benson said.
As is true with the music of
the Beatles, 1964: The Tribute
plans to continue on for a long
time.
In a manner of speaking
Rick Galiher
Columni^
preparation. It doesn’t seem worth
the one academic credit offered to
actors.
Last weekend opened and
closed another extremely brief run
of a play at Elon.
After seeing the numbers in
attendance, 1 don’t believe lack of
interest can be used as an excuse
for performing a show that
involves two months of
Crimes of The Heart, written
by Beth Henley and directed by
Fred Rubeck, opened to a warm
reception from a u^mendous turn
out.
It is about time that decent
plays are chosen with women in
mind, not just for the obvious
reason that many plays portray a
negative image of females as
being inferior, but because the
majority of those who get
involved with acting are women.
The next step is to do research
on finding good, not necessarily
well-known, plays with large,
ethnically-diverse casts. Everyone
should have a chance to enjoy the
spotlight.
Now, for the play. It gave
everyone a good chuckle, but it
even went deeper by touching on a
number of rather serious issues
including suicide, ailing, aging
relatives, mental illness and the
one I can’t forget to mention,
quenching the thirst to kill your
spouse.
The general set up gave a
“welcome-come-on in-and-hang-
up-yourseir feeling.
Accents are tough, especially
when you are doing a different
voice on top of that
Then you must also consider
inflections in volume and sticking
with the same general sound.
Most of the time, the accents
weren’t distracting.
It is my hope that the efforts
of actresses Jennifer Avery,
Alison Luscombe, Mary Margaret
Anderson, and Cindy Jung have
set the trend for the theme of
shows to come-women who are
up there to do more than just look
good.
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