Beatles tribute act The Bestbeat to play on December 27

BELGRADE - The Bestbeat, a Belgrade-based Beatles tribute band, will play a concert at Dom Omladine in Belgrade on December 27 in a bid to recreate the atmosphere of the Liverpool Fab Four's early performances.

The concert will mark 50 years since the eruption of Beatlemania - the Beatles' appearance in their first film, A Hard Day's Night, and the soundtrack to the film, their third studio album.

It will coincide with an exhibition of illustrated posters inspired by John Lennon's lyrics, created by students and professors of the Belgrade Faculty of Applied Arts, Dom Omladine said in a statement.

In addition to many hits that are a must for Beatles tribute concerts, The Bestbeat will play the A Hard Day's Night album in full and take the audience to the era of black-and-white films and vinyl singles.

So far, the band has played in France, Switzerland, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and England, including as many as 14 performances in Liverpool.

In August this year, the band played at the prestigious Beetle Week festival in Liverpool. Organised by the Cavern club, where the Beatles played 292 times, the festival has been running for over 30 years.

The Bestbeat were founded in 2005 and comprise of Vladimir Banovcanin as John Lennon, Damjan Dasic as Paul McCartney, Marko Calic as George Harrison and Vitomir Milicevic as Ringo Starr.

The Bestbeat use instruments and amplifiers like the ones once used by the Beatles, and wear faithful reproductions of their costumes and recognisable hairstyles.

They perform the songs as they were originally arranged and in the original pitch, like classical music. To make the similarity complete, they had to...