Two-man parody band Palette-Swap Ninja have released an entire album of Star Wars parody songs based on The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, one of the most influential and important rock albums in history.

“This year marks two important pop-culture milestones: The 40th anniversary of Star Wars on May 25, and the 50th anniversary of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band a week later, June 1,” explained singer and guitarist Dan Amrich on the band’s website . “Our new album merges both into one full-length concept album titled Princess Leia’s Stolen Death Star Plans. It’s the entire Beatles album as accurately as we could record it, only now it tells the story of Star Wars: A New Hope — in order.”According to Amrich the album took five years to put together. A few songs in and it’s not hard to see why.“Writing hyper-specific lyrics that match the original songs’ cadences; reverse-engineering everything the Beatles recorded, from distorted saxophone riffs to Indian tabla rhythms; recording everything from scratch and learning as we went — well, that’s what takes five years,” said Amrich.The whole Princess Leia’s Stolen Death Star Plans album is available to download for free on Palette-Swap Ninja’s website, or you can watch the video (with lyrics) on YouTube here You really, really should.

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