The Beatles in 1964. Library of Congress collection

If you are a Long Island Beatles fan, where can you go to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the release of “Let It Be”? Answer: Right here at DHPAC/Dix Hills Performing Arts Center at Five Towns College in Dix Hills.

On Saturday, March 20, 2010 at 7:30pm, the band Mostly Moptop will perform “Let It Be(fore& After): A Fab Four Song celebration“  During the second set, the band will perform the entire “Let It Be” album. The show will be both a lively, and a studious, tribute to the album “Let It Be”. One of the performers is Five Towns College Professor Paul Michael Barkan, who did his PhD thesis on Beatles’ techniques. And, the show is co-presented with The John Lennon Center for Music & Technology.

Wikipedia has an entire entry on the “Let It Be” album. Here are some of the music history facts from Wikipedia: “Let It Be” is the twelfth and final studio album released by The Beatles. “Let It Be” was released on 8 May 1970, by the Apple Records label shortly after the group’s announced breakup. It acts as a soundtrack album for “Let It Be”, the motion picture, also released in 1970.

Here is a list of the songs on the “Let It Be” album, to be performed by Mostly Moptop:

1.    Two of Us
2.    Dig a Pony
3.    Across the Universe
4.    I Me Mine
5.    Dig It
6.    Let It Be
7.    Maggie Mae
8.    I’ve Got a Feeling
9.    One After 909
10.    Long and Winding Road
11.    For You Blue
12.    Get Back

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More info on the Mostly Moptop Show:

Tickets: $25
The Box Office phone is: (631) 656-2148
Or, buy tickets online at: dhpac.org

Mostly Moptop

List of band members: John Tabacco, Anthony Pomes, Edward Franz, and Paul Michael Barkan, plus additional guest musicians.

Related story by DHPAC blogger Steve Briody:

http://blog.dhpac.org/2010/03/04/dont-miss-beatles-tribute-march-20th/

Related story with background info on the band and the show:

http://blog.dhpac.org/2010/02/26/celebrate-the-beatles-mostly-moptop-on-march-20-2010/