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Leo Sayer is celebrating his 50th anniversary as a recording artist with a new album and a live performing schedule in 2022. The new recording, Northern Songs: Leo Sayer Sings the Beatles, was released on January 28. Listen to many of the tracks and watch the official trailer below.

Sayer self-produced the new album, giving his own signature spin to 19 iconic songs written and composed by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison.

Of Northern Songs, Sayer says, “[It] started life in 2011. I was fooling around in my new studio and found an interesting way to arrange ‘Eleanor Rigby’ by mashing it up with Michael Jackson’s ‘Billie Jean.’ It worked surprisingly well, feeling like a great groove.”

Listen to his covers of “Eleanor Rigby” and “I Feel Fine”

“I wondered if I was committing sacrilege by taking such liberties with a Lennon/McCartney classic, but friends I played it to seemed to love it. I moved on to ‘Strawberry Fields Forever,’ ‘Norwegian Wood’ and ‘Girl.’”

“Throughout my entire career there’s always been a strong link for me with The Beatles,” he says. “In 1975 my then-manager, Adam Faith, convinced me to record a cover of ‘Let It Be’ as a Christmas single, and I still perform that version onstage today.

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