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Les Fradkin has the singular distinction of having been the first musician to portray "George Harrison" in the Original Cast Of the Broadway production of "Beatlemania." Chosen from over 2000 guitarists back in 1976, Les starred in the smash Broadway musical which ran for over 2 years and has toured all over the world. Now, Les brings you 11 Guitar Instrumentals in a new musical tribute to The Beatles. The CD offers compositions by Lennon-McCartney, George Harrison, Paul McCartney & Wings and instrumental covers of 2 songs from Paul McCartney's "Memory Almost Full" as well as a unique guitar instrumental interpretation of The Beatles' "Free As A Bird." Les is offering something new and original here while keeping one foot in traditrional Beatles sound and production values. "I'll Be Back" and "Within You Without You" receive Ventures surf style treatments and his guitar pyrotechnics on "Live And Let Die" have to be heard to be believed. What's different here? New sounds for the guitar, courtesy of Les' Roland VG-8 V-Guitar Technology, Roland GR-33 and GR-1 Guitar Synthesizers and his custom built Wilson Bros Ventures Model VM-10 MIDI Guitar and customized Fender George Harrison "Rocky" Stratocaster MIDI Guitar. The Beatles, George Martin and Giles Martin started a mash up of Beatles tracks for The Cirque du Soleil and Love albums. Les takes things one step further with a virtual mash-up of guitar technology resulting in guitar sounds never heard before and sonic possibilities only dreamed of till now. This CD also marks Les' debut of his Starr Labs Ztar MIDI Guitar Controller which fires off infinite orchestrations behind his Wilson Bros. Ventures Model Lead Guitars.