A BEATLES & FRIENDS CONCERT
Channeled Through; Speaker Gerald A. Polley

Everybody keeps asking us "What would it be like if I went to a performance of Beatles & Friends in The Afterlife?"  Well, let us try to give you an idea of what an average performance would be like.
As the theater was filling or, the arena, or wherever the performance was being held, an orchestra would be playing old Beatles standards, probably going through virtually everything they'd ever done.  The orchestra would stop playing and depart the stage.  Beatles & Friends would come out and take their positions for the first hour of the performance.
John Lennon would stand up to his microphone and cry out, "Are we ready to have some fun?"  The audience would scream "Yes!" in reply.  John would cry "Then let's do it!"  and they would go into the first number, which would have been "Stand Up!"  but now is their new theme song "Soul Beat," 4:10.  Then John would ask the audience "Was that o.k.?"  and the audience would answer "Yes! Yes!"  "Then, here's another!" John would cry.  Then they would go into "Stand Up!"  3:00.  John would then ask the audience "What do we gotta do besides stand up?"  And the audience would answer, "We've gotta stand together!" and the band would go into "We Will Stand Together Here, As One!"  4:62.
Then, John would ask "Why are we doing this?"  and the audience would answer "Because we care!"  And the band would go into "Care" 3:34.  John would then ask "What does Heaven need?"  "Heroes!" the crowd would answer, and they'd go into "Heaven's Heroes" 4:17.  Then John would ask "What else do we need?"  and the audience would answer "Our mighty men!"  and the group would go into "Let Me Be Your Mighty Man." 2:37.  Before John could even say anything after this number, the audience would cry "Remember it!  Remember It!"  and John and the group would go into that number.  3:55.
When they're done with this number John asks, "What else do we have to remember?"  "The springtime!"  the crowd screams, "The springtime!"  The group goes into "Remember The Springtime" 1:51.  John again asks "What else do we have to remember?"  and the audience answers, "What we're fighting for!"  and the group goes into "It's Heaven That We're Fighting For" 4:44.  When this number is done John asks, "Is there anybody that they shouldn't make mad?"  and the crowd answers "Heaven! Heaven!" and the band goes into "Don't Make Heaven Mad" 5:39.   John then asks "Who's our heroine?"  and everybody answers "Alura!  Alura!"  and they go into that number 3:08.  John then asks "Who's our darling?"  and the audience screams "Mary!  Mary!  Mary!"  and the group goes into "Our Darling Mary" 4:48.
John then asks "What's going on?"  "Some weird stuff!" the crowd answers, "Some really weird stuff!"  and the group goes into "Weird Stuff" 3:34.  John then asks "Where'd all this start?"  "England!"  the crowd answers, "England!"  and the group goes into "England Rocks" 2:38.  John then asks "Who started all this?"  The crowd answers "The King!  The King!"  and the group goes into "The Man From Memphis" 4:20. John then asks "Why aren't we famous?"  and the crowd answers "Because you won't!  Because you won't!"  and the group goes into "I Won't Bite That Bat!" 3:44.
With the end of that number John and the others go to the front of the stage and bow.  "We're gonna take a break!"  John cries.  "But some nice people are gonna take the stage for about an hour.  Please be as kind to them as you've been to us."  "Only if we ain't lost yet!"  the crowd cries.  John and the group go back to their instruments, do "We Ain't Lost Yet!" 2:18.  When this number is concluded Beatles & Friends leave the stage and the break group comes on.  This could be anyone popular to the area where Beatles & Friends are performing, from the ensemble group of The Angelic Choir, to Bach, Beethoven & Brahams Plus One, the next biggest rock group in The Afterlife, to a very popular group called The Zombies.  There's just too many to list here!  But these groups all do about an hour of old Beatles favorites before Beatles & Friends return to the stage for the third hour of the performance.

March 5, 2,003

We have been catching it from Beatles & Friends' fans in The Afterlife!  Some of them are absolutely irate, especially King John's fans.  We forgot his solo in this description.  He does a rendition of "It's Not Easy Being Green," in which he substitutes "It's Not Easy Being King."  It's a great number, the audiences loves it!  Everybody thought we were slighting King John because of our previous experiences with him.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  King John is a major part of Beatles & Friends, and the group would seriously be lacking without him.  It was just an accidental omission.  Too many things to do and not enough time to do it.  We sincerely apologize to all Beatles & Friends fans and especially King John's!  We don't know exactly where his number is placed but it is in the first hour.  We hope all involved will forgive us, and let this little slight pass.

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