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On the roof of Mooby Land, Tuesday evening

On a night like this, some details were unimportant. Details such as what Ben, Jolee, Jonah, and Zayne were all doing on the boardwalk this evening. Details such as how they got garbage cans, two brooms, a mop, and themselves onto Mooby Land's roof. Details such as how exactly a gremlin snuck up on two Jedi, a superhero with a danger sense, and a lifelong reporter, managed to bite them, and where precisely the bites were.

On a night like this, none of that was important because this was the night where the Beatles were having an impromptu rooftop performance.

~~Zayne~~ Paul picked up his ~~mop~~ bass, and when the others were ready, he started singing.

"Jojo was a man who thought he was a loner / But he knew it wouldn't last.
Jojo left his home in tucson, arizona / For some california grass.
Get back, get back. / Get back to where you once belonged
Get back, get back. / Get back to where you once belonged."

"Get back, Jojo. Go home!"

Behind him were ~~Jonah~~ Ringo playing the ~~garbage cans~~ drums, ~~Ben~~ George playing the ~~broom~~ guitar, and ~~Jolee~~ John who was also playing the ~~broom~~ and sometimes he played the fool.

[OOC: ~~Please wait for OCD.~~ Open to gawkers, diners, and police responding to noise complaints.

Oh, and the concert as ripped from the Let It Be movie is on Youtube.]

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They're going to perform the full setlist:

"Get Back #1", "Get Back #2", "Don't Let Me Down #1", "I've Got a Feeling #1", "One After 909", "Dig a Pony", "God Save the Queen", "I've Got a Feeling #2", "Don't Let Me Down #2", and "Get Back #3".

Listen, mingle, throw underwear at the roof. Yell things at the band and get a response!

After Paul finished belting out Get Back like the bearded genius he was, John led the harmony on the next song.

"Don't let me down, don't let me down
Don't let me down, don't let me down"

And then it was time for him to sing the verse.

"Nobody ever loved me like she does
Oh, she does, yeah, she does
And if somebody loved me like she do me
Oh, she do me, yes, she does"

As rehearsed, Paul leaned in to harmonize on "yeah, she does," "somebody loved me," and "yes she does" again. And then the chorus was on.

"Don't let me down, don't let me down
Don't let me down, don't let me down"

John's voice was raw as he sang the next few lines with all the passion in the world.

"I'm in love for the first time
Don't you know it's gonna last
It's a love that lasts forever
It's a love that had no past!"

Paul joined him again for the chorus.

"Don't let me down, don't let me down
Don't let me down, don't let me down"

Alone again for the verse, John decided to be a little silly.

"And glow lee ree she ga blee blue gee gobee"

He couldn't help but smile at how silly he had been just then!

"Oh, she done me, she done me good
I guess nobody ever really done me
Oh, she done me, she done me good

Don't let me down, don't let me down
Don't let me down, don't let me down"

And that's when John started doing a terrifying series of "HEEEEEEEEEEEEE, EEEEEEEEEEEEE!"s.

Honestly, Ringo was happy when the song finished. John freaked him out when he made that noise.

Or maybe it was just because he was freaking out thanks to doing WAY too many drugs earlier. He couldn't really be sure. Then again, most people couldn't tell the difference between a stoned Ringo and a sober Ringo, Ringo included.

Daisy was a cop, but she was off duty, so she wasn't here on the noise complaint bit. If she was, she'd think the complainers needed to not complain about free concerts and just go make sure the manager of the food shop was okay with this.

No, she was mostly here because she was British, and, as such, was compelled to work her way around out of curiosity and a force she couldn't control. And her head tilted for a moment, and, with a grin at Ben particularly, was going to very appreciatively cheer them on.

It really wasn't far off that her fangirling gremlin bite on Sunday wasn't far off from how she typically was. At all.

George nodded to the pretty girl in the front row.

Eric Clapton was probably already nailing his wife, after all, it's not like he couldn't look.

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The nod inspired more cheering, cheering made difficult from the attempt to just not die of giggling.

All those secrets last night and Ben didn't mention anything at all about being able to play the broom, too. Did the secrets never end?

Once John was done, Paul stepped back up to lead off I've Got a Feeling.

"I've got a feeling, a feeling deep inside, oh yeah
Oh, yeah, that's right
I've got a feeling, a feeling I can't hide, oh no no
oh no, oh no
Yeah, yeah
I've got a feeling, yeah"

John started singing the next verse with Paul.

"Oh please believe me, I'd hate to miss the train
Oh yeah"

"Yeah!" George contributed before harmonizing with John and Paul on an "OH YEAH!"

Since George didn't write any bit of this song, it was back to John and Paul for the rest of the verse.

"And if you leave me, I won't be late again
oh no, oh no, oh no
yeah, yeah"

Paul practically shouted the next part: "I've got a feeling, yeah
I've got a feeling"

Ringo just drummed his little heart out during the brief moment in the song where someone wasn't singing over his awesome drumming. If only everyone else would stop playing! And if only they were performing one of his songs instead!

But then he smiled because deep down he knew that he was going to outlive half of the people on the roof right now. That would show them for not appreciating his musical genius more!

Paul sang the next bit so hard that it was almost tough to understand him.

"All these years I've been wandering around
wondering how come nobody told me
All that I was looking for was somebody
who looked like you!"

And then it was back to normal singing.

"I've got a feeling that keeps me on my toes
oh yeah, oh yeah
I've got a feeling that everybody knows
oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah
yeah, yeah
I've got a feeling, yeah
Yeah!"

John stepped up for his major contribution to the song.

"Everybody had a hard year
Everybody had a good time
Everybody had a wet dream
Everybody saw the sun shine
Oh yeah"

"Yeah!"

"Oh yeah, oh yeah

Everybody had a good year
Everybody let their hair down
Everybody pulled their socks up
Everybody put their foot down
oh yeah "

John and Paul wrapped the song up with John singing his verse again while Paul sang the chorus at the same time.

This would, of course, be the second time that Jolee Bindo said "wet dream" tonight.

Paul finished the song with a hearty,

"I've got a feeling
I've got a feeling
I've got a feeling, yeah!"

As John and Paul started singing One After 909, George looked into the crowd. He SWORE he could see the police starting to swarm about, probably thanks to noise complaints from the Thai place. If George weren't so at peace with the universe, he would be slightly annoyed at the Thai place.

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While George was distracted, John and Paul were finishing the song in harmony.

"I said we're trav'ling on the one after 9 0,
I said we're trav'ling on the one after 9 0,
I said we're trav'ling on the one after 909."

And then, because he was still feeling like being silly, John sang, "Oh, Danny boy! The pipes are calliiiiing."

And lo, the other Beatles were amused.

"Hold it!" Ringo yelled out before the others could start playing. He had been smoking a cigar while playing One After 909 and was holding it in his hand when he should have been holding a drumstick to start the song.

After a moment, they were all ready to play.

"ALL... I WANT... IS..." Paul called out.

"I, a-hi hi, a-hi hiiiiiiii
Dig a poooooony..."

John then continued singing Dig a Pony with occasional harmonizing from Paul.

George did have a pretty great ~~broom~~ solo in the middle of the song, even though he thought it sounded a little ~~broomy~~ off.

The Beatles noticed that the cops were gathering, trying to get up to the roof, so they sped through God Save the Queen, another version of I've Got a Feeling, and another version of Don't Let Me Down before getting back to... Get Back.

"One, two, three, four!"

"Jojo was a man who thought he was a loner
But he knew it couldn't last.
Jojo left his home in Tucson, Arizona
For some California grass.

Get back, get back.
Get back to where you once belonged.

Get baaaaack.
Get back to where you once belonged.
Get back Jojo."

In this variation on the song, George took some time to play another great guitar solo.

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John joined Paul in harmony on the chorus after the solo.

"Get back, get back.
Back to where you once belonged
Get back, WOO! get back.
Back to where you once belonged."

"Get back, Jo" Paul added.

Ringo continued drumming like only Ringo could.

"Sweet Loretta Martin thought she was a woman
But she was another man
All the girls around her say she's got it coming
But she gets it while she can

Now get back! get back.
Get back to where you once belonged
Aww get back! get back.
Get back to where you once belonged.

Get back, Loretta, get back home! C'mon.
Aww come on, go home.
Your momma's waitin'.
In her high heel shoes and a low neck sweater.
Get back, Loretta. Go home.

Ahhhhh get baaaack! Get back.
Get back to where you once belonged
Oh get back! Babe. Get back!
Get back to where you once belonged.

Oooooh eeeee!

Yeah get back!
You been out too long, Loretta!
You've been singing on the roof again!
And that's no good.
Because you know your mommy doesn't like that!
Oh no she gets angry.
She's gonna have you arrested, GET BACK!

Awww get back! Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah.
Oh get baaaack! GET BAAAACK!
Get BACK to where you once belonged..."

As the music came to a close, Paul said, "Get back."

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Brooke was taking her Wokling... for a walk when she heard the sounds, and amid a lot of "Should we go see what that is? Yes we should!", she took little Britney Shodu to see what all the fuss was.

And then she watched for a little while, dancing around a little to make sure Britney was having fun, then squinted, thinking she recognized one of them.

Which was why between numbers, she covered the Ewok's closest ear and called, "THIS BETTER BE FOR CHILD SUPPORT."

"You're not Linda!" Paul yelled out.

Francine might have been a little apprehensive about going out by herself after this week, but once the sound of a live band covering the Beatles made it through her half-open window, there was no way she wasn't heading out to see it.

Even if on closer inspection the live band seemed to be... well, at least they were alive. They got that part right.

The lack of actual instruments didn't stop her from clapping and singing along, though! "And if somebody loved me like she do me....."

John spotted the girl singing along and gave her a wink.

Like she could see that from the street.

But he was John Lennon. Even his wink was bigger than Jesus.

Maybe from the top of the Apple building it'd be impossible to spot, but the Moobyland roof? She'd probably have been better off not seeing the old guy who ran Caritas winking at her, though.

After the last bit of Get Back, the Beatles started to put their instruments down. As he was doing that, John quipped, "I'd like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves, and I hope we passed the audition."

And then, a moment later, Jolee Bindo yelled, "WHAT AM I DOING ON A ROOF?"

[OOC: Final thread chronologically, people can still come by to gawk before this, though.]

Zayne looked terrified for a moment. Then, after remembering that there was no chaos, there was harmony, he accepted it. "I was bound to get bitten eventually."

Jonah knocked the trash cans over as he stood up. "HOW THE HELL DO WE GET DOWN FROM HERE?"

It took Ben a moment, but he cracked up laughing. "JONAH WAS RINGO! RINGO!"

Just in case you really want some fast food and would like to avoid the concert.

Saturday afternoon I was all, "I have an idea for a gremlin bite."

AND THEN THIS WEEK HAPPENED.

True story.

So much love. &hearts

All you need is love.

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