.

Flaming Lips Ready For Backlash Over Beatles Cover Album

10/21/2014
.
(Prog) Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne says he's ready for a negative reaction to their Beatles tribute album With A Little Help From My Fwends, which sees them tackling Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in full.

And he believes the Fab Four faced a similar risk when they launched the original in 1967. Coyne tells MusicRadar: "People get very proprietary about this sort of thing. When we did Floyd's Dark Side there were some who had these violent, outraged reactions. It's like we defiled a classic or something.

"There's only one Mona Lisa, so if you put a moustache on it, you really f***ed it up. But music isn't like that - The Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd still exists, and Sgt Pepper by The Beatles will still exist. We just did our homages to those records, because they inspired us."

Read more here.

Prog Magazine is an official news provider for antiMusic.com.
Copyright Prog Magazine - Excerpted here with permission.

Flaming Lips Music, DVDs, Books and more

Flaming Lips T-shirts and Posters

Share this article

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Pin it Share on Reddit email this article


...end



advertisement