A Hard Day's Night at the Beatles' Fest in Chicago!

John Grochowski: At the Beatles' fest, will you be singing with the house band, Liverpool?

MP: For the first time in my life, I’m going to do a Beatles' song. Because the Beatles were there because they were superstars, a supergroup. I always concentrated on the Searchers and never got into (playing) the Beatles music at all. It was always there, and people would say "Hey Mike, are you going to play a Beatles' song?” And I always said no, because by the time we’d done the Searchers' songs there’s no time left to do anyone else’s song. So really it’s going to be the first time doing a Beatles' song in my life, and it’s going to be because I got the connection from George Harrison’s Rickenbacker from seeing him play "A Hard Day’s Night.” That’s the song I’m going to do with the house band, because I think it’s a good story.

~ Courtesy of John Grochowski in Chicago