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1964 The Tribute
'1964 the Tribute' is a tribute band. It was formed in 1982. Their performance involved over 2900 shows, released videos and released albums. Rolling Stone magazine has called 1964, 'The best Beatles tribute ever'.

1964 the Tribute has been featured on Entertainment Tonight, The Nashville Network, CNN, The USA Network, and PM Magazine. They have appeared on scores of local television and radio programs throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and South America.

They were voted 'Best Contemporary Act' and 'Best Major Concert Act' by the readers of Campus Activities Today Magazine while touring worldwide at such venues as: conventions, fairs, colleges, festivals, corporate events and concert halls.

They were also voted 'Contemporary Music Artists of the Year' by the National Association for Campus Activities, and 'Campus Entertainers of the Year' by the Canadian Association for Campus Activities.

The group has planned to continue their performing in the future. When asked about their future, Tom Work said the answer to that is the answer Gary gave to his dad. His dad asked him, 'How long are you going to do this' And Gary said, 'Until they stop coming'.

We are not anywhere close to the age the Beatles were. I'm sure many people comment, 'They're starting to look a little old to be doing this', but people are still coming. Just keeps you young at heart as being a musician.

1964 the Tribute strives for authenticity in their portrayal of the Beatles, but everything they do is not the same. Two areas that differ are set length and sound quality. Mark Benson, who portrays John Lennon in the band, said that in the original Beatles live performances in the 1960s the fans were lucky to hear the band.

'You have to credit the Beatles with revolutionizing the sound-reinforcement industry', said Benson. 'Back then they had these little speakers that you couldn't hear anything out of. The way concerts were amplified had to be changed'.

Benson said that fans who saw the original shows notice the difference. 'People will come up to us and say, 'I saw the Beatles in '64 and the only difference is I can hear you', said Benson. Another difference is the set length.

The Beatles did two 30 minute sets in their early shows. They never did encores while 1964 the Tribute performs two 45-minute sets. 'We tried the half-hour show initially, but it didn't go over well', said Benson.

The members of the group decided which member would portray which Beatle based on the instrument played. 'I was a guitarist, so the natural thing was the John or the George character', said Tom Work who portrays George Harrison.

'The way I got into it was the fellow playing John Lennon joined a band that was a local Beatles tribute act. This was around 1981. After about a year, he got his buddy to join and play Paul, and I got friendship with him. About a year later, he got me to join and play George'. The complete lineup includes: Mark Benson as John Lennon Gary Grimes as Paul McCartney Tom Work as George Harrison Terry Manfredi as Ringo Starr

Recreation of the 1964 Beatle invasion of America was actually the band's mission. They played a set of all early Beatle music. The 'concept is performing a show that gives you an idea of what it was like to see the Beatles when they were touring', said Benson.

'It's definitely a music gig, but there's an acting element to it', said Tom Work. 'None of us is really an actor per se'. I probably come closest because I've done some plays, just in Community Theater. But there's some acting. You need to adopt the body language, the speaking voice.

Those two things, I guess, for this kind of a role are two aspects that resemble acting. Everything else is more musicianship and vocal impersonation, I mean singing'. The group separates its life onstage from offstage. 'We didn't want to be them, just wanted to portray them', said Work.

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