Liverpool Legends is making its annual trip to the Quad Cities, playing the Adler Theatre in Davenport on Saturday, November 29, starting at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are available by clicking here. Marty Scott, who portrays George Harrison in Liverpool Legends, spoke with Our Quad Cities News about why the band is different from other tribute bands.
“We do, you know, a tribute to The Beatles, and the show was put together with myself and George Harrison’s sister, Louise, who I had met right after George had passed away. We became really close, and we wanted to put a show together. The show is narrated by Louise. It’s sort of like a history of The Beatles.”
“We go through all the important aspects of their career, starting with the Ed Sullivan Show, obviously, and we go backwards from there into documentary style, to the Cavern Club, where they were almost like a cover band back then. It was pretty important part of their building their careers. So we go back, and then we go forward into Shea Stadium, which was the first iconic stadium concert for any group ever, and we think that’s pretty important. Then we go through the psychedelic era of Sgt. Pepper and Magical Mystery Tour. We go year by year and album by album and we end up in Abbey Road and Let It Be and that type of stuff. At the end, we even do some solo stuff, because we think that there’s some songs that they wrote right after they broke up that were pretty important to the world as well. It’s kind of like a history of The Beatles. Everything’s live and the unique thing is that it’s narrated by George’s sister.”
Scott explained how Louise, who died in 2023, is still a part of the show. “We have all these video segments, so it’s all intertwined in the show. We’re changing costumes and looks and instruments and while all that’s going on, there’s these segments of George, personal segments from George’s sister. So it’s really cool. There’s a little personal touch on it on a Beatles show, and because she’s involved, there’s a little George lean sometimes, which is great for me, because I’m sort of a ham. I don’t always have to be the quiet one, like he supposedly was.”
Scott said the fans who go to the shows are of all ages, even people who weren’t born when John died in 1980 or when George died in 2001. “The Beatles are such a unique phenomenon in that they’ve always transferred down to every generation, which is, I know, really strange. You’re not supposed to like your grandparents music or your great-grandparents music, even at this point.”
“We have eight-year-olds, and we have 18-year-olds and 28-year-olds and 88-year-olds, and they’re all singing and dancing, and they know every word. It’s interesting, it used to be when there was a real young kid in the audience, I would always think like, ‘oh, they must have really cool parents that are exposing them to this music.’ Doesn’t really work like that. A lot of times these days, it’s the eight-year-old who’s the big Beatles fan and they’re dragging their parents to the show because that’s what they want. They discover it somehow, and they latch on to it. For some crazy reason, it’s still relevant in high schools. It’s still relevant in college. So, it’s a really fun show to be in because it’s about as family show as family could be.”
Scott says there’s a reason the band evolved into what might be called “influencers” today. “The Beatles were just better than everybody. They wrote better songs. They were cooler. They looked cooler. Each one of them had this personality, everybody knew them. The Beatles led the pack of everything. They were leading the pack of fashion and politics and hairstyles and music. They were the first to do a lot of things, and people just followed their lead a lot. It was just a unique thing and they were just that good and that cool that it transcended everything back in those days, and still today.”
“I mean, they’re more popular now than they even were then. You know, you can discover the Beatles pretty easily. Say you’re a musician or you’re a songwriter, you know, with things like YouTube and the Beatles are sort of in your face no matter which way you look. If you’re growing up playing guitar or writing songs, you’re going to discover them. It’s a pretty magical thing, it’s kind of like, wow, they wrote that song. They also wrote that song, and they wrote that song. And there’s different voices, because John was his lead singer, and Paul is a lead singer, and George was leading and Ringo. They all encompass so much in so many different styles of music.”
He says many musicians, past and present, wouldn’t have gotten into music without the Beatles’ influence. “Every musician in the world these days is somehow influenced by the Beatles, and some more than others. But really, the world wouldn’t be where it is music-wise without those guys.” Even rock legends like the late Ozzy Osborne were influenced. “There’s a great video of him where he met Paul. And I don’t think he had ever met Paul before and he was like a little kid freaking out that he’s meeting Paul because, admittedly so, he got into music because of the Beatles, like millions of other people. Ringo started so many drummers’ careers because they saw him on The Ed Sullivan Show and were like, ‘now there’s a good job to have,’ kind of like the Beatles did with Elvis a little bit. The Beatles saw Elvis, and that kind of started them in a direction and then they took that went into other directions, and then just started influencing worldwide.”
“There’s a lot of Beatles shows out there, and ours is pretty unique, with George’s sister involved in it,” he said. “But we’ve done a lot of cool things. We got nominated for a Grammy for a project that we did, we’ve headlined like Carnegie Hall and the Rose Bowl. We’ve done a lot of big shows. So it’s not just your local Beatles show that’s coming through town. Liverpool Legends is a big show, and we’ve been doing it a long time, and we’ve won lots of awards.”
Scott says the band enjoys returning to the Quad Cities during the holidays. “This is our third year in a row (of coming to the Quad Cities near Thanksgiving). We keep coming in this weekend, because it’s Thanksgiving weekend, all the families are home and it’s worked so well because it’s something that the whole family could like. What other show can the 10-year-old agree with his grandparents on, ‘hey, let’s go see Liverpool legends.’ We love all those songs, so it’s a perfect weekend for us to be in Iowa.”
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