Audio Autopsy, 1988🎸Phil Keaggy and Sunday's Child: The Beatles Influenced Album We Didn't See Coming

Phil Keaggy & band wanted to re-create the sound of albums from the mid-'60s à la The Beatles, using only vintage guitars played through vintage amps. They even used Ringo's old drum kit!

The album’s first track, “Tell Me How You Feel”:

Complete album on both YouTube and Spotify featured at end of article.

Well, somebody got somebody’s attention! Phil and Paul in September 1990, 2 years after the Sunday’s Child album was released. This photo’s backstory, according to ClassicChristianRockZine: Keaggy performed at Paul McCartney’s sister-in-law’s wedding. Keaggy had met Laura Eastman, sister of Linda McCartney, while the former worked at CBN (Christian Broadcasting Network). After the wedding, Keaggy fulfilled a lifelong dream by jamming with McCartney in a bedroom at the Eastman family estate, site of the wedding.

This is a timeless record that always manages to sound fresh with each listen.-Mark Allender/Allmusic.com

Allender: “The title track [co-written, with Keaggy, by longtime CCM (Contemporary Christian Music) mainstay, Randy Stonehill] comes closest to an early Beatles sound, with its jangly guitars, lyrics, and simple 1-4-5 major blues progression”:

Keaggy (KAY-ghee) is interviewed about his meeting with Paul in 1990:

Deface the Music, 1980: Todd’s Utopia & Their Similar Project

On September 24, 1980 (eight years before Keaggy’s project), Todd Rundgren’s Utopia released Deface the Music, the band’s 5th studio album, on Bearsville/Warner Bros. Records, produced by the band. Per the album’s Wiki page, “the concept of the album was to pay homage to the Beatles and create [original] songs which sounded very similar to the Fab Four’s tunes throughout the various stages of their career.”

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