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Jul 12, 2014 · Robert Trachtenberg/Courtesy of the artist. "Weird Al" Yankovic has been the king of parody for 30 years, outlasting and, in some cases, outselling the artists he's sent up. He also mastered the ...
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In 2010, Eric Appel produced a Funny or Die trailer for Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, a fictional biographical film that parodies other films based on musicians; Yankovic (played by Aaron Paul) is seen hiding his "weirdness" from his parents (Gary Cole and Mary Steenburgen), making it big using song parodies with the help of Dr. Demento (Patton Oswalt), falling in and out of love with Madonna ...
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Alfred Matthew Yankovic was born onOctober 23, 1959 and raised in Lynwood, a Los Angeles suburb. His parents, Nick and Mary Yankovic, were extremely loving but extremely protective of their only child. Young Alfred was often discouraged from playing with other kids and later warned about fraternizing with girls, with his father telling him they had...
After graduating college, Al continued making parodies, including a riff on Queen’s “Another Bites the Dust” called “Another One Rides the Bus” that was one of Demento’s most requested songs—it actually started becoming a hit on more-mainstream radio. Eventually, Al signed with Scotti Bros. Records and released his first album, “Weird Al” Yankovic,...
While Al is a very talented musician, his song parodies do require one key ingredient—a culturally resonant song to spoof. Most sources discussing Al’s work correctly point out that you can parody copyrighted works in the United States—that’s how Saturday Night Livecan lampoon the latest blockbuster, for example. But whether Al’s work definitely qu...
Al had a pretty solid decade in the 1980s. He released a total of six albums, remained a fixture on the Billboardcharts and on MTV, and was the subject of not one but two movies. The first you may not have heard much about. It’s called The Compleat Al, and it’s a mockumentary releasedpretty much directly to home video back in 1985 (an hour long ver...
A career as long as Al’s is overflowing with interesting trivia—so consider these facts the liner notes. Al used to have his own children’s television show. The Weird Al Show aired on CBS for one season starting in 1997 and featured Al hosting guest stars like Patton Oswalt and Hanson and bantering with Harvey the Wonder Hamster. The show’s product...
Following the muted reception to UHF, Al returned to the recording studio, not quite sure what his next move should be. A paradigm shift was taking place on the music scene; Instead of the upbeat pop anthems of the ‘80s, Al was looking at the beginning stages of grunge, or the so-called Seattle sound. And there was no band bigger than Nirvana, who ...
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Oct 19, 2024 · Ask the Chatbot a Question. “Weird Al” Yankovic (born October 23, 1959, Downey, California, U.S.) is a musician and songwriter best known for his parodies of songs and music videos by other musicians. He gained national fame in 1984 with the song and music video for “ Eat It,” a parody of Michael Jackson ’s hit song “Beat It.”.
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"Weird Al” Yankovic, Leo Birenberg & Zach Robinson sit down to take us behind the music of Weird: The Al Yankovic Story!Al talks about his love for the parod...
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Weird Al talks with Dan Rather about how he ended up getting his start in the music industry and how he's thrived so many decades on The Big Interview!Catch ...
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