HUDSON FALLS — The Fab Four from Liverpool, or those scruffy boys in London? I want to hold your hand? I can’t get no satisfaction.
The Beatles and The Rolling Stones went at it for years, although whatever animosity between the camps got reported in the gossip pages, the benefit of time teaches us at least some - if not most perceptions of jealousy – were the making of marketeers.
In the way of supportive alliances, the Beatles DID write and give to the Stones the latter band’s first Top-20 UK hit (“I Wanna Be Your Man”); Jagger & Richards meanwhile sang on a TV version of “All You Need Is Love.” The cover of the Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” depicts a doll wearing a sweater upon which is emblazoned “Welcome The Rolling Stones,” and the Stones “Satanic Majesties Request” followed a few months later with a 3-D jacket that featured each of the four Beatle faces when you tilted the album just right.
That camaraderie-esque nature regarding the The Beatles and The Stones takes current form at The Strand on May 14, when a set of Beatles music will be performed by Across The Pond and a set of Rolling Stones songs by the Tumblin’ Dice.
The Strand Theatre is located on Main Street in Hudson Falls. For more shows and ticket information, go to: mystrandtheater.org.
