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The Zombeatles are a
zombie parody version of the
rock group
The Beatles . Stemming from
Madison, Wisconsin band
The Gomers , the group's 2006 video Hard Day's Night Of The Living Dead gained international status when
horror film director and musician
Rob Zombie chose it as one of his top
YouTube
Halloween video picks of 2007,
[1] resulting in over a million views worldwide.
[2]
In 2009 they released an album called Meat the Zombeatles and a
mockumentary called The Zombeatles: All You Need Is Brains as well as touring New Jersey
[3] and appearing with
John Wesley Harding and
Eugene Mirman in their Cabinet Of Wonders Variety Show in April.
[4]
Revealed in the
Behind the Music -like
[5]
mockumentary
[6] are historical references to a past
zombie apocalypse ; however, in the Zombeatles version a complete and parallel zombie universe is proposed via The Fab Gore, the
Dead Sullivan Show ,
The Rolling Kidney Stones , The Zom
Monkees , the
Dead Clark Five , The Zom
Zombies ,
Boo Marley ,
Elvis Grisly ,
Dead Zeppelin , the
Beach Boils , and appearances by
Ewwyoko Ohno , the Zom
Rutles ,
[7]
Fester Fangs ,
Bob Killin , etc.
[8]
The band
The Zombeatles members are:
Jaw Nlennon (styled after
John Lennon ) — played by Stephen Burke
Pall Ickartney (styled after
Paul McCartney ) — played by Gordon Ranney
Gorge Harryson (styled after
George Harrison ) — played by Bucky Pope, and occasionally, for some US east coast gigs, played by Jon Dichter.
Dingo Scarr (styled after
Ringo Starr ) — played by Biff Blumfumgagnge
Killy Essen (styled after
Billy Preston ) – played by Dave Adler
Eat Breast (styled after
Pete Best ) – played by Geoff Brady
Management
Other appearances in the film
Discography
Meat The Zombeatles , 2009 Beeftone Records
All You Need Is Brains
DVD , 2009 MacAbre Pictures
The Zombeatles Meat The Zombeatles
"The Zombeatles 'Meat The Zombeatles'" first printing (2009)
Beeftone Records (U.S.)
"Halp!” (styled after “
Help! ”)
"Ate Brains A Week” (styled after “
Eight Days a Week ”)
"Brain” (styled after “
Rain ”)
"I Wanna Eat Your Hand” (styled after “
I Want to Hold Your Hand ”)
"She Dead” (styled after “
She Said She Said ”)
"I'm Eating Through You” (styled after “
I'm Looking Through You ”)
"Dead Prudence” (styled after “
Dear Prudence ”)
"Hey Food” (styled after “
Hey Jude ”)
See also
References
^
Rob Zombie introduces his pick of the Zombeatles
^
Zombeatle interview by Kristian Knutsen, The Isthmus, 10/30/2007
^
Red Bank Orbit article on their New Jersey appearance
Archived 2011-07-15 at
archive.today
^
"Badger Herald article on the Cabinet Of Wonders, Alex Truong Sunday, April 12, 2009 21:47" . Archived from
the original on April 26, 2009. Retrieved April 14, 2009 .
^
"The ZomBeatles: All You Need Is Brains Tastes Funny" . Fan Cinema Today. March 24, 2009. Archived from
the original on March 28, 2009. Retrieved 2009-04-09 .
^ Jenkins, Henry (April 20, 2009).
"Ghouls Just Want to Have Fun: Doug Gordon on the Zombeatles (Part One)" . Confessions of an ACA/Fan . Henry Jenkins. Retrieved 2009-04-20 .
^ Jenkins, Henry (April 20, 2009).
"Ghouls Just Want to Have Fun: Doug Gordon on the Zombeatles (Part Two)" . Confessions of an ACA/Fan . Henry Jenkins. Retrieved 2009-04-20 .
^
"Non-commercial review of the Zombeatles' Mockumentary All You Need Is Brains by Gabrielle Faust, March 2009" . Archived from
the original on 2009-09-26. Retrieved 2009-04-08 .
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