This is very obscure. In 1972 the Spanish pianist - keyboardist Lucky Guri teamed with saxophonist Peter Roar, bassist Carles Benavent, guitarist Max Sunyer and drummer Salvador Font (all of them stars in the Spanish 1970's Prog and JR-F scene) and released an album of Beatles covers in jazz-fusion style (instrumental) called We Are Digging The Beatles.

However they had not asked permission for the rights and The Beatles management demanded to withdraw it from the market, it was sold during only 2 weeks so it became a real collectors rarity.

Recently (2010 I believe) Picap records solved the rights issue (I don't know how) and re-released the album in CD. I could not find any track in YouTube, maybe I will try to upload some.

http://www.picap.com/en/rss:Cos/totesnoticies/_/698

Track list:

- Let It Be

- Strawberry Fields

- The Fool on the Hill

- Ticket to Ride

- The Long and Winding Road

- When I'm 64

- Here There and Everywhere

- A Hard Day's Night

- Norwegian Wood

- All My Loving

- And I Love Her

Deep Purple (Proto-Prog) - Help!

Edited by progresssaurus - April 11 2013 at 02:55

That Peter Gabriel version of SFF is brilliant, he's one of the few artists I can think of that would do that song justice.

The best prog Beatles cover I know is "She Said, She Said" from Lone Star's eponymous debut album. It's so good I even forgive them for adding a verse that's not in the original.

chopper wrote:

Didn't Phil Collins cover Tomorrow Never Knows?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7ysx2yh_60

One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
Haquin

Kansas with London Symphony Orchestra - Eleanor Rigby (from album Always Never the Same)

It is not covered with prog-rock creativity (by my meaning), but still very good and interestingly interpreted

Edited by progresssaurus - April 11 2013 at 11:37

Edited by Barbu - April 11 2013 at 19:00

^I Need You by Transatlantic is not a pure Beatles cover, but a mash-up of like-titled songs by both America and the Beatles. Sneaky! (Though both bands had George Martin production in common.)

The “All This and World War II” soundtrack also featured Bryan Ferry’s She’s Leaving Home and Ambrosia’s Magical Mystery Tour. (BTW, anybody who thinks that Ambrosia aren’t prog, as some critics of their first two albums suggest, really listen to them and then get back to me.)

Some others I find especially engaging:

Gryphon—Mother Nature’s Son (segues effortlessly from the instrumental Rain Dance)

Deep Purple—We Can Work It Out

Spirit—Yesterday (features beautiful fluid guitar lines from Randy California)

Caption: We tend to take ourselves a little too seriously.

Silly human race! Yes is for everybody!

Don't forget Rick Wakeman, he covered The Beatles multiple times (if memory serves well...)

New album! "A Moment of Thought"

Triumvirat's Helmut Koellen covered this song on his solo album of the same name.