In a separate talk, Joey Molland was glad to get the band back together. It was a more fecund period in the life of the Beatles, and we were younger and more idealistic and not worried about the band ever breaking up.” They were using string quartets and were kings of the world at the time. “They had mastered the art of writing the perfect single already, and now they were stretching out musically. And the Beatles’ songwriting peak was at Rubber Soul and Revolver,” Rundgren says via Zoom from somewhere on the road. “There was some discussion of doing Let It Be, but I sort of protested and wanted focus on their best material. For Rundgren, it was a no-brainer to do it again. In 2019, Rundgren and many of the same artists on this Beatles tour began a similar (and pandemic-shortened) one to celebrate The Beatles (aka The White Album) record. With a backing band, they’ll play tunes from those Beatles records alongside some of their own many hits. The all-star lineup includes Rundgren, Christopher Cross, Jason Scheff, Joey Molland and Denny Laine. Tour advertisement The mathematically questionable It Was Fifty Years Ago Today: A Tribute to the Beatles stops in Houston at Cullen Performance Hall on May 25.
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