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Liverpool Legends<\/a> 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<\/a>. 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.<\/p>\n \u201cWe do, you know, a tribute to The Beatles, and the show was put together with myself and George Harrison\u2019s 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\u2019s sort of like a history of The Beatles.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe 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\u2019s 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\u2019s some songs that they wrote right after they broke up that were pretty important to the world as well. It\u2019s kind of like a history of The Beatles. Everything\u2019s live and the unique thing is that it\u2019s narrated by George\u2019s sister.\u201d<\/p>\n Scott explained how Louise, who died in 2023, is still a part of the show. \u201cWe have all these video segments, so it\u2019s all intertwined in the show. We\u2019re changing costumes and looks and instruments \u00a0and while all that\u2019s going on, there\u2019s these segments of George, personal segments from George\u2019s sister. So it\u2019s really cool. There\u2019s a little personal touch on it on a Beatles show, and because she\u2019s involved, there\u2019s a little George lean sometimes, which is great for me, because I\u2019m sort of a ham. I don\u2019t always have to be the quiet one, like he supposedly was.\u201d<\/p>\n Scott said the fans who go to the shows are of all ages, even people who weren\u2019t born when John died in 1980 or when George died in 2001. \u201cThe Beatles are such a unique phenomenon in that \u00a0they\u2019ve always transferred down to every generation, which is, I know, really strange. You\u2019re not supposed to like your grandparents music or your great-grandparents music, even at this point.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe have eight-year-olds, and we have 18-year-olds and 28-year-olds and 88-year-olds, and they\u2019re all singing and dancing, and they know every word. It\u2019s interesting, it used to be when there was a real young kid in the audience, I would always think like, \u2018oh, they must have really cool parents that are exposing them to this music.\u2019 Doesn\u2019t really work like that. A lot of times these days, it\u2019s the eight-year-old who\u2019s the big Beatles fan and they\u2019re dragging their parents to the show because that\u2019s what they want. They discover it somehow, and they latch on to it. For some crazy reason, it\u2019s still relevant in high schools. It\u2019s still relevant in college. So, it\u2019s a really fun show to be in because it\u2019s about as family show as family could be.\u201d<\/p>\n Scott says there\u2019s a reason the band evolved into what might be called \u201cinfluencers\u201d today. \u201cThe 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.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI mean, they\u2019re more popular now than they even were then. You know, you can discover the Beatles pretty easily. Say you\u2019re a musician or you\u2019re 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\u2019re growing up playing guitar or writing songs, you\u2019re going to discover them. It\u2019s a pretty magical thing, it\u2019s kind of like, wow, they wrote that song. They also wrote that song, and they wrote that song. And there\u2019s 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.\u201d<\/p>\n He says many musicians, past and present, wouldn\u2019t have gotten into music without the Beatles\u2019 influence. \u201cEvery musician in the world these days is somehow influenced by the Beatles, and some more than others. But really, the world wouldn\u2019t be where it is music-wise without those guys.\u201d Even rock legends like the late Ozzy Osborne were influenced. \u201cThere\u2019s a great video of him where he met Paul. And I don\u2019t think he had ever met Paul before and he was like a little kid freaking out that he\u2019s meeting Paul because, admittedly so, he got into music because of the Beatles, like millions of other people. Ringo started so many drummers\u2019 careers because they saw him on The Ed Sullivan Show and were like, \u2018now there\u2019s a good job to have,\u2019 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.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of Beatles shows out there, and ours is pretty unique, with George\u2019s sister involved in it,\u201d he said. \u201cBut we\u2019ve done a lot of cool things. We got nominated for a Grammy for a project that we did, we\u2019ve headlined like Carnegie Hall and the Rose Bowl. We\u2019ve done a lot of big shows. So it\u2019s not just your local Beatles show that\u2019s coming through town. Liverpool Legends is a big show, and we\u2019ve been doing it a long time, and we\u2019ve won lots of awards.\u201d<\/p>\n Scott says the band enjoys returning to the Quad Cities during the holidays. \u201cThis is our third year in a row (of coming to the Quad Cities near Thanksgiving). We keep coming in this weekend, because it\u2019s Thanksgiving weekend, all the families are home and it\u2019s worked so well because it\u2019s something that the whole family could like. What other show can the 10-year-old agree with his grandparents on, \u2018hey, let\u2019s go see Liverpool legends.\u2019 We love all those songs, so it\u2019s a perfect weekend for us to be in Iowa.\u201d<\/p>\n Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. 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