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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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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
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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."
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"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
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- "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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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
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- "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"
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- “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.
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- “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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“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
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- “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
- "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
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- "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."
- – Mara from beatles-collectors@yahoogroups.com
- "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."
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William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide, Sept. 21 2005
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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
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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!
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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.
- "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."
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By Archana Jayakumar, Asian Age, Sept 5, 2004 
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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."
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Jeevan Soorya Dhas, Australia
"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."
- From the rest of the article "Ode to the Beatles"
by NARENDRA KUSNUR – September 24, 2004 MIDAY, Bombay, INDIA
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- "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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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)
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"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


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