Songs Mentioning the Beatles: Festival

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Hey, it’s 6/7 in America….so the kids on TikTok are happy. (“6-7” won’t be until July 6 in other parts of the world because they put the day first.) I’m packed and ready to go! Where? You know I don’t know. But I do know that Sir Paul McCartney is having a birthday this month, and we’re celebrating that with songs that mention the Beatles. Here’s a guy who’s been mentioned in a song or two himself. Festival - Chuck Berry One listen to that guitar riff and you know exactly who this is! The Beatles are the last band mentioned. Yes, last band. I think Chuck Berry named every act who’d had a hit in 1970 in this song! In the wake of Woodstock (a number of acts who performed there are mentioned in this song), Berry envisioned putting on a concert on the Ohio River, with barges of stages stretching “from Paducah (Kentucky) to Cairo (Illinois)” (a distance of about 40 miles as the crow flies, but I don’t know how far as the river flows). Chuck even paid tribute to two (then) recently-departed greats: “Oh, brother Hendrix, sister Joplin, we wish you were here.” Well, at least we can dream of such an event. Thanks for the idea, Chuck. You’d need to be there, too. Rock and roll wouldn’t exist without you. Festival Written by Chuck Berry Recorded by Chuck Berry From San Francisco Dues, 1971 BEATLE REFERENCE LYRICS: Bad Bo Diddley and the Beatles and some others