Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Alan Parsons A Walk Down Abbey Road was a concert tour which was launched in North America in 2001 to pay tribute to The Beatles and promote the hits of various headlining band members. Similar to Ringo Starr's All Starr Band tours, each successive year the band members swapped out and featured the songs of the new line up.The first set would included all band members assembled to play each other's hits. The second set featured all Beatles songs performed by various band members depending on the specific tune and the strength and style of the performer.Although certainly successful enough to continue over two years, the show was mired by some problems, not the least of which was prohibitive concessions having to be paid to The Beatles for the use of the name \"Abbey Road\".An obvious play on concert-goers expectations with legendary Who bassist John Entwistle in the group, the second song of the opening set was Open My Eyes from Rundgren's first band, The Nazz. The chord pattern at the beginning is lifted directly from The Who's I Can't Explain. It would be one of Entwistle's last concert series as he died on 27 June 2002 one day before the scheduled first show of The Who's 2002 US tour."@en }
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- A_Walk_Down_Abbey_Road abstract "Alan Parsons A Walk Down Abbey Road was a concert tour which was launched in North America in 2001 to pay tribute to The Beatles and promote the hits of various headlining band members. Similar to Ringo Starr's All Starr Band tours, each successive year the band members swapped out and featured the songs of the new line up.The first set would included all band members assembled to play each other's hits. The second set featured all Beatles songs performed by various band members depending on the specific tune and the strength and style of the performer.Although certainly successful enough to continue over two years, the show was mired by some problems, not the least of which was prohibitive concessions having to be paid to The Beatles for the use of the name \"Abbey Road\".An obvious play on concert-goers expectations with legendary Who bassist John Entwistle in the group, the second song of the opening set was Open My Eyes from Rundgren's first band, The Nazz. The chord pattern at the beginning is lifted directly from The Who's I Can't Explain. It would be one of Entwistle's last concert series as he died on 27 June 2002 one day before the scheduled first show of The Who's 2002 US tour.".