The Zombeatles

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The Zombeatles are a zombie parody version of the rock group The Beatles. Stemming from Madison, Wisconsin band The Gomers, the group's 2006 video Hard Day's Night Of The Living Dead gained international status when horror film director and musician Rob Zombie chose it as one of his top YouTube Halloween video picks of 2007,[https://www.youtube.com/robzombie Rob Zombie introduces his pick of the Zombeatles] resulting in over a million views worldwide.[http://www.isthmus.com/daily/article.php?article=12403 Zombeatle interview by Kristian Knutsen, The Isthmus, 10/30/2007 ]

In 2009 they released an album called Meat the Zombeatles and a mockumentary called The Zombeatles: All You Need Is Brains as well as touring New Jersey[http://www.redbankorbit.com/wordpress/2009/04/three-from-the-wild-side-of-weird/ Red Bank Orbit article on their New Jersey appearance] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20110715175916/http://www.redbankorbit.com/wordpress/2009/04/three-from-the-wild-side-of-weird/ |date=2011-07-15 }} and appearing with John Wesley Harding and Eugene Mirman in their Cabinet Of Wonders Variety Show in April.{{Cite web |url=http://badgerherald.com/artsetc/2009/04/12/eugene_mirman_spread.php |title=Badger Herald article on the Cabinet Of Wonders, Alex Truong Sunday, April 12, 2009 21:47 |access-date=April 14, 2009 |archive-date=April 26, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090426155405/http://badgerherald.com/artsetc/2009/04/12/eugene_mirman_spread.php |url-status=dead }}

Revealed in the Behind the Music-like {{cite web | title=The ZomBeatles: All You Need Is Brains Tastes Funny | url=http://fancinematoday.com/2009/03/24/the-zombeatles-all-you-need-is-brains-tastes-funny/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090328070246/http://fancinematoday.com/2009/03/24/the-zombeatles-all-you-need-is-brains-tastes-funny/ | url-status=dead | archive-date=March 28, 2009 | date=March 24, 2009 | publisher=Fan Cinema Today | accessdate=2009-04-09 }} mockumentary{{cite web | last=Jenkins | first=Henry | title=Ghouls Just Want to Have Fun: Doug Gordon on the Zombeatles (Part One) | url=http://henryjenkins.org/2009/04/ghouls_just_want_to_have_fun_d.html | date=April 20, 2009 | work=Confessions of an ACA/Fan | publisher=Henry Jenkins | accessdate=2009-04-20 }} are historical references to a past zombie apocalypse; however, in the Zombeatles version a complete and parallel zombie universe is proposed via The Fab Gore, the Dead Sullivan Show, The Rolling Kidney Stones, The ZomMonkees, the Dead Clark Five, The ZomZombies, Boo Marley, Elvis Grisly, Dead Zeppelin, the Beach Boils, and appearances by Ewwyoko Ohno, the ZomRutles,{{cite web | last=Jenkins | first=Henry | title=Ghouls Just Want to Have Fun: Doug Gordon on the Zombeatles (Part Two) | url=http://henryjenkins.org/2009/04/all_we_are_saying_is_give_peas.html | date=April 20, 2009 | work=Confessions of an ACA/Fan | publisher=Henry Jenkins | accessdate=2009-04-20 }} Fester Fangs, Bob Killin, etc.{{Cite web |url=http://www.fatally-yours.com/horror-reviews/the-zombeatles-all-you-need-is-brains-2009/ |title=Non-commercial review of the Zombeatles' Mockumentary All You Need Is Brains by Gabrielle Faust, March 2009 |access-date=2009-04-08 |archive-date=2009-09-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090926064450/http://www.fatally-yours.com/horror-reviews/the-zombeatles-all-you-need-is-brains-2009/ |url-status=dead }}