“WEIRD AL” YANKOVIC TOUR STOPS IN BOCA RATON JULY 24
"Weird Al" Yankovic, the undisputed king of pop culture parody, will perform in Boca Raton on Saturday July 24.
“Weird Al” has sold more comedy recordings than any other artist in history. In a career spanning nearly three decades, he has amassed 30 Gold and Platinum albums, 7 Gold and Platinum-certified home videos and 3 Grammy Awards (with 11 nominations).
The singer-songwriter's first real brush with fame came in 1979 when he recorded "My Bologna" (a spoof of The Knack's "My Sharona") in the bathroom across the hall from his college campus radio station where he had a weekly DJ shift. A devoteé of musical satirists Spike Jones, Tom Lehrer, Allan Sherman and Stan Freberg, Yankovic's budding career took off when the song became a sensation on the nationally syndicated "Dr. Demento Show." Just a few years later, Al landed his first recording contract and has since created an extraordinary legacy of music and ground-breaking videos, including hits like "Eat It," "Like A Surgeon" and "Amish Paradise."
"Weird Al" Yankovic and his band (the same talented group of musicians that has performed with him since 1982) will be back on the road again in the summer of 2010.
