I can imagine all of you
back home were wondering and worrying how our boys did in in
Liverpool.
Well you can stop
fretting.....They were magnificent.
They wowed a packed
house at the famous Royal Court Theatre on Friday doing the Blue Years.
And then we all
did an unbelievable `meet & greet'
in the street that
has never been done before in Liverpool. I was so proud of
them !!
And then they sang
unplugged on Spencer Leigh's excellent Saturday night LIVE BBC Radio
Merseyside show. Harry Prytherick, a former Merseybeat star from
the Remo Four, marveled.
"They made the
hairs on my neck stand up."
Mine stood to attention
and saluted.
Marty sang `Behind the
Locked Door'.
Kevin did `Nowhere Man'
and Eric sang `Every Night'.
It was simply beautiful
and memorable.
Spencer Leigh was almost
crying with delight.
But then came the
supreme achievement...so far.
The Sunday Adelphi convention
where a fantastic cavalcade of the World's finest Beatle tribute bands paid
homage to the greatest group of all time...
The Beatles.
And again American
English brought the house down as the headliners who closed the show.
They did the fantasy
`What If' album, a concept that was suggested by Bill Heckle of Cavern City
Tours who present Liverpool Beatle Week.
Let me remind you here
that Bill and Dave Jones, along with Ray Johnson and many other dedicated
staff, work all year to get it right. And they did !!
And yet again so did
American English, despite having only two weeks rehearsing the complex and
difficult songs because of Marty's incapacity. A remarkable
achievement. And yet they made it look easy.
I honestly couldn't pick
out a highlight because each succeeding song seemed to top the previous one.
Highlight upon highlight
until you felt your head was spinning with pride and joy.
Their encore of `Live
and Let Die', `Jet' and `Imagine'
showed us what it really
would have been like to see The Beatles performing their solo tracks.
I'll never be quite the
same. Nor will the enthusiastic and totally captivated 3000
Beatlemaniacs who were so fortunate to be at the beginning of a new dawn,
a rebirth if you will,
of Beatlemania.
AND WE WERE THERE !!!
And now on to the open
air Victoria Street festival. Monday Aug 26.
50,000 fans stretched as
far as the eye could see when as headliners American English ended the show
The fans long wait
to see these newcomers from Chicago, proved well worthwhile as AE treated
them to mostly Beatles solo hits.
Roars of approval
continuously swept the excited crowd as the first bars of each song rang
out.
Security staff said it
was the best response to a band they had ever seen in over 10 years of
Beatle Week.
American English
ruled....and kicked butt !!
Over half a million had
invaded Liverpool's City centre for a cavalcade of Beatle bands from the
four corners of the Earth...but the luckiest fans saw American English
perform like Gods. They rule...okay !!
Cavern farewell gig.
Tuesday.
The Cavern club is of
course the Beatle bands Mecca but all eyes had turned towards the West and
these new Kings from
Chicago...American English.
Along with their
enraptured audience, the lads thoroughly enjoyed an exhilarating early
Beatles Rock'n'Roll set. They rocked !! What a send-off.
After their third encore
AE looked completely bushed.
But their eyes glowed
with sheer happiness at having been taken to the hearts of these legions of
new fans.
And I'm just as
tired...but as proud and happy.
Beatle fans from Poland
to Peru will return home to spread the new gospel according to American
English
Regards.
Sam.
