Live Review: Echo & the Bunnymen, "Ocean Rain" with orchestra in Los Angeles

Somehow it seemed fitting. The Beatles' tribute band the Fab Four was booked at Club Nokia on Saturday (11/24). Across the L.A. Live courtyard at the larger Nokia Theatre, the surviving, active members of Liverpool's '80s Fab Four--Echo & the Bunnymen [ tickets ]--paid tribute to themselves and their former comrades by performing "Ocean Rain" in its entirety, backed by an orchestra. Upon its release 25 years ago, the Bunnymen's famously cocky frontman Ian McCulloch proclaimed "Ocean Rain" "th...

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