What are some of your favorite Beatles songs?īramage: It’s so hard to choose a favorite, but I would have to say number one would be “Day Tripper,” because that’s the first song I actually ever played with a band. I’ll have you sing one of the songs.” It was a lot of fun. You’ll come up and stand by an amplifier. Pepper outfit?īramage: Yes, yes, exactly. I was DJing at a 13-year-old’s birthday party, and didn’t I put you up on stage in a Sgt.

Rosenay: I think there’s even more to this story of us. In fact, he’s the one who got me my start in the business. I started working with him professionally about nine years ago when I started doing the Beatles stuff professionally.

We’d run into each other at different Beatles events. That’s the name of Paul McCartney’s bass.īramage: I actually met Charles around the same time I started playing music. He is currently the main Paul McCartney in Beatlegacy and also in a band from Connecticut called The Hofners. Rosenay: And Dane has actually been in several Beatles bands. Sheedy: Dane, how long have you been impersonating Paul McCartney?īramage: I’ve been doing this professionally for about nine years, but I’ve been playing music and I’ve done Beatles things, just not in a professional capacity, for 22 years. Register-Citizen correspondent Jack Sheedy spoke to Bramage and Rosenay about their upcoming event in Torrington. Other celebrities Rosenay interviewed for the book include Pete Best, the Beatles’ original drummer radio personality Cousin Brucie (Bruce Morrow), who introduced the Beatles when they appeared at Shea Stadium in 1965 and even Major League Baseball Hall of Famer Dave Winfield, who said he used to work out to “Silly Love Songs.” And so Elliot Easton lists his top 10 favorite middle eights.” And that was one of the geniuses of their compositions. You'll be throwing that one part of the song that wasn’t really part of the song but fits in perfectly. “The Beatles will always have that part, ‘Oh, this girl will be happy’ (in 'This Boy'). “A normal song is verse, verse, chorus, verse, chorus,” Rosenay said. That last topic was what Elliot Easton, lead guitarist for The Cars, chose to include in the book. His book is a list of lists by 64 celebrities discussing their favorite Beatles tunes, concerts, memories and, yes, middle eights. Rosenay said a middle eight typically occurs near the middle of a song and lasts about eight bars.

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