A MUST for BEATLE fans!

To The "Fab Four" from Liverpool...A Tribute From India
The Most Unique BEATLE Tribute Album You'll Ever Hear!!

Demo Video of "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away " (11.8 MB) See Madooo in a LIVE performance.

Demo Video of "Got To Get You Into My Life" (9.9 MB) As seen in Discovery-TV Europe's "The Alternative Rock n' Roll Years"covering
the Rock n' Roll scene in the 70s around the world. It is illegal to duplicate or play this video in any other situation.

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• REVIEWS, COMMENTS & LINKS
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  "This album is incredible – An Indian music-salute to The Beatles"– Archer from 99.5 The Mountain's 'Breakfast With The Beatles', CO, USA
• 99.5 The Mountain's "Breakfast With The Beatles" brings you three hours of Beatles & solo-Beatle music and audioclips each Sunday morning at 9. The show includes special features, previews of new releases and theme sets suggested by listeners. Your host is the Mountain's morning guide, Archer, who has interviewed all four Beatles over the course of his radio career and brings an extensive audio archive to this unique, locally-produced weekly "fab fest."
  

1. Madooo's "Tribute to John Lennon" was chosen to open John's Birthday Special morning program by 99.5
   The Mountain's "Breakfast With The Beatles", on Oct 10, 2004. Songs were played in this order...
   * John Lennon Tribute/Madooo
   * Jealous Guy/Collective Soul
   * Working Class Hero/Alarm
   * Instant Karma/Toad The Wet Sprocket
   * Gimme Some Truth/Sam Phillips
   * Oh My Love/Wackers
   * I Don't Wanna Be A Soldier/Mad Season
   * Grow Old With Me/Mary Chapin-Carpenter
   * Give Peace A Chance/Amnistie Internationale
   In their signal coverage area -- Denver, Boulder, Littleton, Aurora, CO, they have 600,000 listeners.
2. Click here to listen to Archer's introduction on his John Lennon's Birthday Special Show, 2004
8. JohnlennonDreamsite is showcasing Madooo's Demo-video of "Gotta Get You Into My Life". At the time the video was made,
   (in 1989) Madooo was toying with the idea of portraying himself as a singing Maharajah from India...hence the wierd outfit.
   Credits for the DEMO/VIDEO are: Concept, storyboard and production by MADOOO (Madhukar Dhas), 1989. Videotaped and executed by KARL BAUER, 1989
   Credits for the Music track are: All harmonies & lead vocals: Madooo, Keyboards_1: Louis Banks (India's top music director)
   Lead Guitar: Ehsaan Noorani, Bass Guitar: Karl Peters, Drums/programming: Ranjit Barot, Tablas: supervision... Ranjit Barot
   Recording Engineer: Rajiv Kenkre, Keyboards_2/Horns.. Uli Geissendoefer, Arrangement & music direction: Madooo
   Audio Track re-mixed, mastered and produced by Madooo at MADOOO RECORDS, New York City, USA. Copyright of SR: 2004 MADOOO RECORDS

1. "I really like the CD. My favorites are 'You can't do that', and 'Across the universe' (which has a very Roger Waters
   kind of vocal arrangement). All of the album is very interesting...the songs are very different...finally something
   different for the Beatles' cover world." – Simone from
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• Hello Madhu, You will be pleased to know I have included your version of "Norwegian Wood" as the Odd Track Out feature on my show.
  It will air on June 11 or 12 on my FM affiliates, and it will be available to hear on-demand for a week beginning June 12 at www.beatlesradioshow.com. Thanks again for your contribution!
  – Dennis Mitchell, "Dennis Mitchell's Breakfast With The Beatles"
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   “You have done a great job of your interpretations... It looks like you are a very good part of the global scene in a very big way to me...
   Congratulations... It is a great contribution to the fab four's legacy...” – Richie Havens
6. “We DID play it a couple of weeks back - great job!” I will stay in touch. Thanks, Madooo! Love -
   – Kenneth Dashow, Q-104.3 (New York’s Classic Rock Station.)

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• "Got To Get You Into My Life" is nice to listen to all the time – Yasuhiko Suga
• "SELTAEB" is a Japanese site named after "Beatles" written backwards. It is owned by Yasuhiko Suga who has devoted himself
  to writing different melodies to the chords of popular Beatle songs with a "ring-tone" kind of feel.

2. 
   “Greetings Madooo, my friend: Interviewing you and playing tracks from ‘To the Fab Four from Liverpool...A Tribute from India’ on KMSU fm was a real pleasure, for both Gully and me. Its definitely one of the highlights of my fifteen years, as host of the World Beat.”
   – Mark R. Thomas, World Beat host/producer: KMSU/KMSK FM , The Maverick Radio Network
5. “Hey Madooo, I'm glad you found out that the "Tribute" was doing well here. New releases have 2 months during which we chart &
   report and your record placed into the Top 20 on at least one of our reports to CMJ! The "Tribute" is now in our regular library -- for now it's filing in the International section, but I may create a section specifically for covers & tributes which will make it easier for DJs to locate it in the years to come. Thanks so much for thinking of us ... & congratulations.”
   – Matthew Finch, KUNM Music Department
8. "Dear Madooo - Congratulations! You're being featured on the ubl Featured Artist - World section. I really enjoyed your version on
   "Norwegian Wood". I'm certain you're going to have a great experience. You can find your feature at the URL below: http://www.ubl.com/genres/world Good Luck!"
9. – Adam, Product Manager for ARTISTdirect_UBL

1. "It's quite an engaging meld of "East Meets West".  It's got just enough Indian influence to be interesting, but not overpowering.
   There are 14 Beatles songs covered as well as two versions of Madooo's John Lennon Tribute. I really like the John tribute.
   Actual newscasts of Dec 8, 1980 are woven into an "Imagine/Watchin' the Wheels/Give Peace a Chance" medley. This is the second time I've listened to it and both times I choked up."
2. – Mara from beatles-collectors@yahoogroups.com
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4. "Madooo is not interested in simply translating Beatles songs into traditional Indian arrangements. Rather, he is a contemporary
   musician with a combination of Indian and Western rock infleunces, and his versions are hybrids.They tend to work best when he is trying lesser-known Beatles songs such as 'You Can't Do That' and 'Things We Said Today', although he demonstrates that Harrison already had a certain Indian leaning in 'I Needed Someone' even before he went public with his interests. The best of his remakes is 'I Saw Her Standing There', probably because Madooo seriously alters it, creating a dance-rock version reminiscent of the Power Station, even down to his Robert Palmer-like vocal."
   – William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide, Sept. 21 2005
   
   

• "Madooo’s latest album, 'To The ‘Fab Four’ From Liverpool...A Tribute From India' is a heady concoction of the East
  and West, featuring hypnotic strains of the sitar and rhythmic pulsations of the tabla married to vintage melodies."
  – By Archana Jayakumar, Asian Age, Sept 5, 2004

2. "His artistic and creative input has made the album an absolutely delight to listen to. My favourites are 'Norwegian Wood',
   'With a little help' and 'The John Lennon tribute', which I think is very moving and very cleverly put together."
   – Jeevan Soorya Dhas, Australia
   
   
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   "Even before he became famous in 1974 for playing the role of Jesus in Alyque Padamsee’s Jesus Christ Superstar,
   Madhukar Chandra Dhas (Madooo) used to sing Beatles numbers for a Chennai-based band named Voodoos."
4. Read the rest of the article "Ode to the Beatles" by NARENDRA KUSNUR – September 24, 2004 MIDAY, Bombay, INDIA
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1. "Straddling two worlds, these songs have been deliberately chosen for their `Indianness,' which has been further
   enhanced by Madooo using Indian instruments as a measure of his tribute to John, Paul, George and Ringo."
   Read the rest of the article by CHITRA KRISHNAN, Wednesday, September 29, 2004 – THE HINDU (MADRAS EDITION)
   
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   "The Fab Four album is available only in USA so far. Madooo is trying to market it here (INDIA)..."
   – SM City Express, With The New Indian Express (Chennai) Saturday, October 2, 2004.
   
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1. His album brings Indian sounds into popular Beatles' numbers (Norwegian Wood, anyone?)
2. Read the rest of the article by HEMANGINI GUPTA, Monday, September 27, 2004 – THE HINDU (BANGALORE EDITION)
   
   
   
   
   

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