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RAIN: A TRIBUTE TO THE BEATLES
135 - The Jeans Generation (radio emission) - 09.01.2007.

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Feb. 9, 1964. A Sunday night that would change the course of popular music, popular culture - and history. Among the 75 million Americans tuned in to The Ed Sullivan Show on their families' televisions that night were five boys who lived in different parts of the country but were equally smitten a seemingly their entire generation was - by the appearance of four mop-topped young Englishmen in dark suits calling themselves the Beatles, cranking out a soaped-up brand of melodic, guitar-and-harmonies-driven rock 'n' roll that was as infectious as it was original and unique:

A rollicking number with a catchy chorus: "All My Loving". A covered ballad, "Till There Was You". A supercharged rocker, "She Loves You", punctuated by the contagious phrase, "Yeah, yeah, yeah!" And after returning later in the show, two more fast-paced songs: "I Saw Her Standing There" and "I Want to Hold Your Hand".

Neither the quartet from Liverpool, their screaming fans in the studio guessed in their giddiest dreams the ultimate impact the band would have. But the Beatles would grow into a multimedia phenomenon too popular to tour, continually evolve their music and lyrics, pioneer studio recordings into an art form, raise the rock genre into a potent forum for social and political expression - and inspire and influence generations of musicians to follow. In the immediate aftermath of that first Ed Sullivan appearance, legions of would-be rockers picked up guitars (turned on by the music - or at least the prospects of impressing girls) and started off on their own quests.

It would be nearly 20 years after that fateful night that five very talented young Americans initially fired up by the Fab Four would, themselves, come together in a Beatles tribute band that would, in its own right, raise the bar of tribute acts from hackdom to grand masterly craft - forging a career that would stretch to twice as long as the Beatles and preserving the legacy of the immortal band's recorded music on stage to wildly enthusiastic audiences spanning the generations, including the vast majority of older fans who never got to see the Beatles perform live, and fans who weren't born yet when the Beatles hit America.

These five members of Rain shared a vision that had been lacking in the act by previous members who'd shuffled in and out of the lineup. The quintet - four portraying John, Paul, George and Ringo, and the fifth sitting offstage to contribute keyboards and various sounds of the Beatles' background instrumentation - approached the Beatles music as classical musicians. They continually strove to replicate the music perfectly - even the intricate studio material recorded from 1967 on that the Beatles never performed on stage. In so doing, Rain continually polished its stage show, worked a rigorous tour schedule that saw them playing ever-larger venues and built a huge fan base, garnering media attention on both sides of the Atlantic.

To this day, Rain revisits and analyzes the Beatles' recordings to uncover the subtleties and gems the lads from Liverpool delivered as they enraptured the world and ignited a music revolution.

The story of Rain really begins in the mid-1970s. Fresh out of college, keyboardist Mark Lewis hunted around his native Los Angeles area for work. He met two musicians in an Orange County bar band called Reign who worked plenty of Beatles covers into their gigs. In time, Reign was in demand to play Beatle sets, riding a towering wave of nostalgia for the band that had broken up in 1970. After numerous misspellings in the media and advertising, Reign became Rain (title of a 1966 Beatles single). A big break came when the band was hired by Dick Clark to record the music for the 1979 made-for-TV movie "Birth of the Beatles".

Still, the members of Rain dreamed of recording their own material and inking a big-label contract. They came close, but didn't get a deal. Numerous personnel changes followed as Lewis strove to keep the band's calendar filled with Beatles-tribute dates. In his vision, Rain could rise to great heights by doing Beatles like no one before, save the originals. Rain would lift the tribute act to an art form. Lewis' perseverance eventually paid off, as four ultra-gifted veterans of the Beatlemania productions that had plied the boards on Broadway, in Los Angeles and on national tours joined up in what would become a permanent Rain lineup. These four were brilliant musicians and capable singers who also possessed stage savvy, complete with costumes and makeup. They were New Yorkers Joey Curatolo (portraying Paul McCartney) and Joe Bithorn and Los Angeleno Ralph Castelli (portraying Ringo Starr).

Rain steadily progressed from there - playing the "three C's" of the entertainment business: cabarets, cruise ships and conventions. Their fan base gradually widened, their act grew ever tighter and their mastery of the Beatles constantly advanced toward an unheard-of perfection. Only the tragic death in 1997 of Riddle, to a brain tumor, altered the lineup. Riddle's Beatlemania roommate and close friend Steve Landes joined up, and Rain's roster remains the same today. The band is in demand in more than 200 dates a year.

The greatest change has been the band's creation, in 2001, of a showroom act complete with multimedia video that conjures up the history and feeling of the turbulent 1960s. Rain has grown that act into a major Broadway-type theater production that has been playing to sellouts in large venues throughout the United States and Canada. The band progresses through four costume and set changes commensurate with the four Beatles phases they portray: early (Ed Sullivan-show era), psychedelic ("Sergeant Pepper"), flower-power ("Magical Mystery Tour" period) and latter ("White Album" / "Abbey Road" / "Let it Be" years). The band occasionally mixes in an unplugged acoustic jam session - Joey, Joe and Steve sitting stage-front with guitars. And they show no signs of hanging up their mop-top wigs any time soon. Rain has its sights set on playing ever-larger theaters and concert halls and to continuing to preserve the magical legacy of the Beatles to crowds old and young.

As the foremost practitioners of Beatles music, Rain has even cut its own CD: "Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!" The band's unique proficiency has caught the eyes of promoters around the nation.

In 1990, a Seattle Beatle-exposition promoter hired Rain to recreate the Beatles' legendary 1969 rooftop concert in which the Fab Four had played a surprise lunch-hour set of new material (which would end up on its "Let It Be" album) on top of the five-story London building that housed the "Abbey Road" recording studios. Rain obliged, playing the10-song set note for note, word for word on a downtown Seattle rooftop, then concluding with the post-Beatles Lennon single "Imagine" as an encore. CNN Headline News aired reports on the show for the next 24 hours.

Then, on Feb. 7, 2004 - 40 years to the exact minute (1:20 p.m. PST) when the Beatles arrived on American soil at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport - the members of Rain walked off a Concorde jet at Seattle's Boeing Field to 7,000 screaming fans braving a cold rain, then performed all the songs from the Beatles' three 1964 Ed Sullivan Show appearances. Seattle oldies-rock station KBSG-FM organized the promotion. One disc jockey explained: "We were thrilled when Rain agreed to portray the Beatles. They not only perform the Beatles' music flawlessly, but they also look like them, act like them, and talk like them!" He added: "It is an historic portrayal and one we will always remember."

*Written by Michael Sion.*


RAIN - THE BEATLES TRIBUTE BAND
Joey Curatolo - (Vocals, Bass, Piano, Guitar); Steve Landes - (Vocals, Rhythm Guitar, Piano, Harmonica);
Joe Bithorn - (Vocals, Lead Guitar); Ralph Castelli - (Drums, Percussion, Vocals); Mark Lewis (Keyboards, Percussion)

Contacts:
www.raintribute.com


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