Weird Al Yankovic Tickets for Sale

In the world of music, has played many roles. He is a record producer, a singer, s songwriter, a producer and a musician. Aside from that, he is also a fantastic film director, a superb parodist, a satirist and an incredible actor in some of the best movies to have come out of Hollywood. As an instrumentalist, Weird Al Yankovic is a master of the accordion and also plays the keyboards. He has been signed onto to several record labels including Capitol Records, Volcano Records and Scotti Brothers Records. Surprisingly, many famous artists consider it an honor if Weird Al Yankovic parodies their songs and artists like Michael Jackson, Nirvana and Chamillionaire.

Famous Weird Al Yankovic songs include The Saga Begins, a parody of American Pie by Don McLean. This amazing song told the entire plot of the Star Wars movie, The Phanton Menace, before the movie was released and is today one of the greatest songs by Weird Al Yankovic. He has parodied not one but two Michael Jackson songs; Beat It became Eat It and Bad became Fat. The legendary Michael Jackson was a huge fan of Weird Al Yankovic so much so that he allowed Weird Al Yankovic to record a video for his song, Badder, on the set for the Michael Jackson massive hit, Moonwalker as well as Weird Al Yankovic appearing on the video for Liberian Girl.

He has also parodied the best known Nirvana song, Smells Like Teen Spirit and released it as Smells Like Nirvana; when this iconic rock band heard of this parody, they truly felt that they had ?made it? in the world of music. Nirvana members were found laughing hysterically at the music video of Smells Like Nirvana. Other artists include Mark Knopfler from Dire Straits who allowed Weird Al Yankovic to parody his song Money for Nothing and even went so far as to play guitar in the parody. George Lucas, the man behind the Star Wars franchise was absolutely thrilled by Weird Al Yankovic?s The Saga Begins.

One of the latest Weird Al Yankovic parodies is a parody of the Lady Gaga hit track, Born This Way, released as Perform This Way with Lady Gaga herself being a very big fans of this artist?s music. Thus, an artist whose biggest fans include the most legendary and famous artists and bands in American history is truly someone you need to see live to find out why Lady Gaga, Michael Jackson, Nirvana and even George Lucas have been thrilled by his works.

In figures, Weird Al Yankovic has old over twelve million albums as of 2007 and released a total of one hundred and fifty original and parody songs. He has performed live over a thousand times and won three Grammy Award and nine Grammy Award nominations. Four of his spectacular albums have been certified gold and six more albums have received the platinum certification. Thus, a man who can call Michael Jackson a big fan and has not one but six platinum albums is truly an iconic figure to be seen live on stage through Weird Al Yankovic Tickets.