S. Bumblebee,” or so the guys thought
One of the odder tracks played that night was a complete surprise to the audience
They recreated the idea which gave The Mods instant credibility when they covered Lennon and McCartney’s “It’s For You” back in the sixties. This time, they covered another obscure Beatles track titled “L. They found out later that it wasn’t The Beatles at all.
“We found this song on a Beatles bootleg tape,” Bullock explained, “but it turned out to be not by the Beatles at all but a really great ‘parody’ song by Dudley Moore. It was one of the coolest songs The Beatles never wrote.”
The response to the show was enthusiastic and the guys were somewhat elated, but Claudia Wilson saw the other side. Even at the Caravan, decades after the Epic album, the band put enormous pressure on themselves.
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