Perform live the compositions of the most famous band of all times? And then record and release these on DVD? The laureate hits of the Beatles? Record a composition by Lennon and McCartney on single; one that was never played by the Beatles? Isn’t that like reaching for the moon ... Perhaps it is, but why not do that, if you’re crazy about the music of the Fab Four and if you wish to pay sincere and respectful homage to them. Besides that, you’re confident and have been making music at a professional level for years.

This is what The Strawberry Beats do. Spring 2005 five experienced professional musicians joined hands. They had known each other for years in the circles of Dutch pop music. They shared a passion for the music by John, Paul, George and Ringo that was beyond the ordinary. Performing that music themselves live: that was something they all dreamt of. They decided to make that dream come true.

In the course of 2006 an expanding crowd became acquainted with and enthusiastic about the respectful manner in which The Strawberry Beats play the immortal Beatles repertoire without surrendering their own musical identity. The DVD The Strawberry Beats Live - A Tribute To The Beatles, released that year, made satisfactory sales figures and the band’s gigs are always a big success.

And early 2007 the band ventured again into something new by releasing Come And Get It on single, a Lennon and McCartney composition that the Beatles never recorded. It did make the charts in 1970 when it was recorded by the band Badfinger. The Strawberry Beats made their own special version, noteworthy especially for the fragments from other Beatles songs that have been incorporated in the last part. In that way it also becomes a stroll down ‘Beatles memory lane’; thus linking up smoothly with the reverent way in which the Strawberry Beats pay tribute to the compositional talents of Lennon and McCartney.

It has also become increasingly obvious at their gigs that the audience is not only very appreciative of the classic songs and the excellent versions played by the five, but also of the sixties-seventies atmosphere. The times of ‘yore’, of the ‘summer of love’ seem to revive again. It is not just the Beatles’ contemporaries, but also their children who like this! People seem to feel the need –just like then- to be submerged in good music, a sense of being away for a bit from the harsh realities of our capitalist society and an excessive material life style. This makes The Strawberry Beats the perfect act to add lustre to any festival.