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Revealed in the Behind the Music-like [5] mockumentary[6] are historical references to a past zombie apocalypse; however, in the Zombeatles version a complete and parallel zombie universe is proposed via The Fab Gore, the Dead Sullivan Show,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 ZomMonkees, the Dead Clark Five, The ZomZombies, Boo Marley, Elvis Grisly, Dead Zeppelin, the Beach Boils, and appearances by Ewwyoko Ohno, the ZomRutles,[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
- Gorge Mortem (styled after George Martin) – played by Joe Soko
- Brain Epspleen (styled after Brian Epstein)
Other appearances in the film
- Angus MacAbre – a Scottish zombie comedian played by writer/director Doug Gordon
- Fester Fangs (styled after Lester Bangs) – played by Ben Wydeven
- Bob Killin' – (styled after Bob Dylan) – played by Ben Wydeven
- The Devil — played by Biff Blumfumgagnge
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.
External links
- Zombeatles Homepage Archived 2009-03-30 at the Wayback Machine
- Zombeatles Facebook
- Zombeatles Blogspot