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)
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s 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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All songs arranged and performed by MADOOO (Madhu)
Click on each of these sample tracks to listen:

1) Norwegian Wood (Lennon/McCartney)
2) You’ve Gotta Hide Your Love Away (Lennon/McCartney)
3) Ob-la-di Ob-la-da (Lennon/McCartney)
4) If I Needed Someone (George Harrison)
5) You Can’t Do That (Lennon/McCartney)
6) Love Me Do (Lennon/McCartney)
7) Gotta Get You Into My Life (Lennon/McCartney)
8) Across The Universe (Lennon/McCartney)
9) With A Little Help From My Friends (Lennon/McCartney)
10) I Saw Her Standing There (Lennon/McCartney)
11) Things We Said Today (Lennon/McCartney)
12) The John Lennon Tribute (Medley)
Imagine/Watchin’ The Wheels/Give Peace A Chance (Lennon)

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  • Scroll below for REVIEWS, COMMENTS & LINKS
  • March 2006. Rated #1 for Top Artist, Top Album and "The John Lennon Tribute" had been the Top Song forover 3 weeks on Aol.Music.Now in their John Lennon Profile page.On their Daily Playlist, it bounces back and forth, and has also made it to the #1 spot a few times.

  • "Hi Madooo! GREAT JOB! As you probably know, Le Sonographe is strictly broadcasting Fab4 covers, So...Your CD is absolutely what we like to hear, with this incredible blend of indian atmosphere and strong Rock'n Roll roots. We've included two tracks in our current playlist:"Gotta Get You Into My Life" and "You Can't Do That"...Just to begin! We change our playlist each month, and don't doubt that we'll programme other tracks.Thanks a lot and congratulations. All the best." –Jean-Jacques Gilles, Station Director, http://www.live365.com/stations/sonographer, FRANCE

  • "This album is incredible – An Indian music-salute to The Beatles"– ARCHER from 99.5 The Mountain's 'Breakfast With The Beatles', CO, USA. ARCHER was the first to feature MADOOO on American Radio in his show as EXTRAORDINARY COVERS — Cover versions of Beatles songs that take the songs to different levels. On July 18, 2004 Archer played "If I needed someone" alongside cuts by Elton John and Al Green.
    Click here to listen to Archer's Comments.
    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. .Click here to listen to Archer's introduction on his John Lennon's Birthday Special Show, 2004
    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."
  • "Hi Madooo! Very interesting. I especially like 'Obla de obla da' or whatever its called. My only criticism is that its somewhat over produced in some places but in general yes, very good and very different which makes a change and well done. Regards"
  • – Gordon Waller of "PETER & GORDON" – http://gordonwaller.com
  • Check out http://www.peterandgordon.us for the then and some of the now and what is going to be. Also, http://www.gordonwaller.com for what is going on solo with him. Coming soon www.peterandgordon.net http://www.peterandgordon.net for the Official business site, store and more!
  • "I like it.. Very moving especially 'The John Lennon tribute'.... Sort of like George Harrison re-arranged Beatle songs".
  • – Georgiana Steele-Waller

 

  • "I listened again to your CD and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I like the variation in phraseology; you have also been able to resist overkill in terms of instrumentation and complexity, and have found a wonderful balance that focuses on the simplicity and the purity of the music. Congrats!" – David Goyette, Producer: Toronto Beatles Celebration www.torontobeatlescelebration.com
  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

  • "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"
  1. “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
  2. "I very much liked 'You've Got to Hide Your Love Away' and the 'John Lennon tribute'. I think George would've liked your version of his song (If I needed someone) because it has all the Indian feel in it." – PAT MANCUSO, Founder of the Official George Harrison Fan Club in 1964 and author of "Do You Want To Know A Secret"
  1. “Your love for India and the music of the Beatles shines out from every track of this exciting collection. I've played it for friends. They automatically start dancing." – JOSHUA GREENE He is author of 'Here Comes the Sun: The Spiritual and Musical Journey of George Harrison (John Wiley & Sons, January 2006). Joshua recorded with George in 1969-70 with the Radha Krishna Temple on Apple. Joshua M. Greene teaches in the Religion Department of Hofstra University in New York.
  1. “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).

  • “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
  1. 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
  2. "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!"– 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

  3. "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

 

  1. Credits for the DEMO/VIDEO are: Concept, storyboard and production by MADOOO (Madhukar Dhas), 1989. Videotaped and executed by KARL BAUER, 1989Credits 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
  • John Lennon Dreamsite, http://www.johnlennon.it , is a cool site dedicated to John Lennon, the Beatles and  Dreamers of every age, gender and time. Photos and writings from the book http://www.johnlennon.it/libri_imagine_eng.htm and the exhibition  "Imagine Your Dream: a Tribute to John Lennon" (Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna in Rome) by Fiorella Dorotea Gentile, the radio and tv photojournalist, who is editor of the site. This exhibition is available to rent. http://www.johnlennon.it/info_2_eng.htm The site contains beautiful photos of John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Beatles, Bowie, Dylan, Eno, MacLaughlin; lyrics, biographies, quotes, essays, useful links, discography, forum and an interesting showcase of selected guests with essays, music and videos. Emotional!

  1. "Got To Get You Into My Life" is nice to listen to all the time – Yasuhiko Suga
  2. "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.
  • "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
  1. "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


  2. "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."
  3. From the rest of the article "Ode to the Beatles" by NARENDRA KUSNUR – September 24, 2004 MIDAY, Bombay, INDIA
  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)


  2. "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.

  1. His album brings Indian sounds into popular Beatles' numbers (Norwegian Wood, anyone?) Read the rest of the article by HEMANGINI GUPTA, Monday, September 27, 2004 – THE HINDU (BANGALORE EDITION)

"I found it enjoyable on many levels - shades of Pop, Trance, Lambada, Bhangra, Psychedelic Rock, etc.- all the hallmarks of the current 'masala' bands that I come across on the college radio stations." – FRED MILLER, TX, USA

 

Like Lemon Curry? – June 12, 2005
"Another album which defies easy description or classification. Imagine an alternate universe in which the Beatles started out as an Indian raga band instead of a British skiffle band, and then years later somebody decided to update and modernize those old raga songs. That's not really the whole picture here - Madooo grew up in India, toured the Midwest with a Vietnamese band, and is known for his Elvis and Jim Morrison impersonations - this CD is a mix of Western rock and Indian percussion. Beatles music helped introduce sitar music and some of Hindu culture to America, it's clear from this CD that Beatles music was influential introducing Western rock to India as well.
- John Holderried (Amazon.com Reviewer, Queens, New York)

 

"He left India when he became part of the CBC band and spent a good time of his initial years in the United States touring various parts of the country. But he is no longer part of the troupe. He now works with Deutsch Advertising, owns a recording studio ‘Madooo Records’ and has released his second album, “To the Fab Four...A Tribute from India”
Read the rest of the article by By INDIRA RODERICKS, Thursday,Sept. 23, 2004 – Afternoon Despatch & Courier, Mumbai, INDIA

 

  • The full version of Madooo's "John Lennon Tribute" (with a 4-1/2 star rating) appeared on a MSN_MUSIC search in the 1st place
    and the "Radio Edit" version is in 13th place with a 5-star rating, among a total of 397 listings. – November 2005