An all-star collection of noted Rock & Roll musicians will be coming to Cincinnati in December to celebrate The Beatles' 1968 self-titled album — better known as "The White Album."
The "It Was 50 Years Ago Today: A Tribute To The Beatles’ White Album" tour began in September and features Todd Rundgren (who was recently announced as a nominee for the next class of the Rock and Roll of Fame), Monkees legend Micky Dolenz and Soft Rock hitmaker Christopher Cross, as well as Jason Scheff of Chicago and Joey Molland of Badfinger.
The tour recently added a stop at Cincinnati's Aronoff Center on Dec. 1. Tickets for the show — which is being presented by rundgrenradio.com — go on sale Wednesday, Oct. 23 at 10 a.m. via cincinnatiarts.org. Prices range from $39-$119.
Reviews from the tour say the musicians switch off on vocals for the "White Album" material — Rundgren fronts the group on “Everybody’s Got Something to Hide but Me and My Monkey” and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," for example, while Cross handles songs like the mellower “Martha My Dear" and "Blackbird" and Dolenz takes center stage for "Why Don't We Do It In the Road" and "I'm So Tired."
The musicians also sprinkle the show's first set with some of their individual greatest hits on the tour. They've played The Monkees' “Pleasant Valley Sunday” and “I'm A Believer," Rundgren's “I Saw the Light” and “Hello It’s Me” and Cross' "Sailing," as well as Badfinger's "No Matter What" and Chicago's "25 or 6 to 4."
Rundgren has several Beatles ties. He's participated in Ringo Starr's "All Starr Band" tours in the past and in 2001 he was one of the main players on Alan Parson's A Walk Down Abbey Road tour celebrating the Beatles' album that actually did come out 50 years ago this year. Besides being a part of a band initially designed to cash in on The Beatles' success, Dolenz was also a friend of the Fab Four, even hanging out with them in the studio while they recorded Sgt. Pepper Lonely Hearts Club Band. Badfinger, meanwhile, was the first act signed to The Beatles' Apple record label and Molland recorded with John Lennon and George Harrison in sessions for their early classic solo albums.
