Bard is given Beatles treatment
A singer from a Beatles tribute band has put the words of William Shakespeare to music in the style of the Fab Four.
Chris O’Neill, who plays Sir Paul McCartney in the Backbeat Beatles, said the idea came to him in a dream.
"I woke up and wrote down all these ideas about the Beatles going back in time and meeting Shakespeare," he said.
Mr O’Neill begins his one man show - A Bard Day’s Night- in Gateshead on Monday evening.
The singer did not study Shakespeare at school and so this project has allowed him to get to know the Bard.
I get my complete works of Shakespeare out and give myself some tasks - sometimes it might be a speech - and I just sit there with a piano; he said.
