The Beatles: Abbey Road Comes To Phillips Center 3/24
Classic Albums Live presents some of rock's best albums in their entirety, as they were recorded, note for note and cut for cut. The group, which presented The Eagles: Hotel California and The Who: Who's Next, brings The Beatles: Abbey Road to the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts Tuesday, March 24 at 7:30 p.m.
The goal of Classic Albums Live is to capture "absolutely every detail" of some of rock's greatest albums. The musicians, pulled from among Canada's best, do not attempt to dress up like the original band members or mimic them in any way. Instead, they perform the album as it was recorded in such detail that, if you close your eyes and listen to the music, you'll swear you're listening to the album.
Based in Toronto, Classic Albums Live has performed throughout Canada and the United States. Along with Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon and The Eagles' Hotel California, they have also produced "live album" experiences of Led Zeppelin's Led Zeppelin and Led Zeppelin II; Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run; Supertramp's Crime of the Century and Breakfast in America; the Rolling Stones' Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main Street; The Beatles' Revolver and Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band; and Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here and The Wall.
Abbey Road, one of the Beatles' most successful albums, was released in 1969 before the band's dissolution in 1970. The last album to be recorded, it marked a return to the happy, upbeat songs the Beatles recorded in their early days, despite the discord that had developed between band members.
Abbey Road is known for its iconic and often mimicked album cover, which was hastily shot outside London's Abbey Road Studios where this and many other Beatles albums were recorded. The album produced two of the best-known songs of modern music, Come Together and Here Comes the Sun.
Classic Albums Live
The Beatles: Abbey Road
Tuesday, March 24, 7:30 p.m.
Phillips Center for the Performing Arts
Ticket Prices: $20-35
To Purchase tickets, call the Phillips Center Box Office at 352-392-ARTS (2787) or 800-905-ARTS (toll-free within Florida) or call Ticketmaster at 800-277-1700 (toll-free). Tickets may also be purchased in person at the Phillips Center Box Office, the University Box Office at the University of Florida Reitz Union or from any Ticketmaster outlet, or online at www.ticketmaster.com. Cash, checks, MasterCard and Visa are accepted.
UF students may purchase $10 tickets (with a valid student ID) at the Phillips Center Box Office and the University Box Office at the Reitz Union. Other students may purchase $10 student tickets (in the balcony) at the Phillips Center Box Office.
University of Florida Performing Arts: www.performingarts.ufl.edu
Classic Albums Live: www.classicalbumslive.com
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