# Beatles-fans help me out.

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 9, 2007, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beatles-fans-help-me-out/391484 "2007-02-09T12:56:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2007, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beatles-fans-help-me-out/391484/21 "2007-02-10T17:55:35Z")

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“Rainy Day Sun” by Spinal Tap, off of “Break Like the Wind.”

The opening to “Laura” by Billy Joel, from “The Nylon Curtain” (his most Beatles-influenced album). Not a well-known song. If not for the fact that it’s digitally recorded in stereo in 1981, it might pass.

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**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2007, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beatles-fans-help-me-out/391484/22 "2007-02-10T18:01:01Z")

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[QUOTE=Jinx]  
The band was named “Klaatu”. I have no idea to what this names refers.  
I should Google on it some time soon… - Jinx  
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It was the first word in the phrase, “Klaatu barada nikto,” the words that would stop the robot Gort in the movie, _The Day the Earth Stood Still_.

And the Philly DJ is Andre Gardner, a certified Beatles freak who is absolutely awesome.

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**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2007, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beatles-fans-help-me-out/391484/23 "2007-02-10T18:47:43Z")

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**Electric Light Orchestra** was often compared to the Beatles, and if you listen to their early, more experimental work, sometimes you can hardly tell the difference.

For instance, listen to the album **Eldorado**. “Boy Blue” has a very Beatle-esque opening. “Poor Boy” has a section in it that I could swear has George Harrison on lead vocals (and it’s possible - he’s not credited on the album, but he was good friends with Jeff Lynne, and they were hanging out a lot when the album was made).

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**Author:** ![Talon\_Karrde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Talon\_Karrde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Talon_Karrde)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2007, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beatles-fans-help-me-out/391484/24 "2007-02-10T21:46:41Z")

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The Beach Boys have a song that was an homage to the Beatles, but I can’t remember which one it was right now. The intro sounds vaguely like “I Want to Hold Your Hand”.

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**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2007, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beatles-fans-help-me-out/391484/25 "2007-02-10T22:06:30Z")

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Pretty much everything by the band Beatallica. My personal favorite tracks are “The Thing That Should Not Let it Be”, “Everybody’s Got A Ticket to Ride Except for Me and My Lightning”, “Got to Get You Trapped Under Ice”, and “I Want to Choke Your Band”.

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