Weird Al Yankovic is quite a prominent figure in music industry. He is a musician, a parodist, a television producer and he is an American.

Weird Al is well known for his parodies on famous songs. Actually some stars are even pleased to know that Al Yankovic is interested in their work. Al is respected and he is on the market for over 25 years already so therefore most artists consider his parodies to be a sign of honor because Al works with popular songs, recognized ones and what he chooses just must be a hit.

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Al usually takes a hit, and writes some other lyrics for it without unlike others changing the original music of the composition. Before creating a new song and a video Al asks the original author for permission and only if he gets it he records a song and films a video.

However it is sometimes possible to hear Al’s unreleased songs during his live performances and to watch Weird Al Yankovic music videos on his website.

Most music stars like Al’s works and admit to be his fans however not all agree for the parody to be made of their songs. Paul McCartney claims to be Al’s fan but did not let him to record a parody of Wings’ “Live and Let Die” entitled “Chicken Pot Pie”. The reason was that Sir Paul is a vegetarian and that was offensive for him, Al understood the situation and respected the musician’s will.

Once Weird Al created a video parody on Nirvana’s hit Smells like Teen Spirit. The parody was called Smells like Nirvana. It is known that when the members of this group watched the video they laughed hysterically. Kurt Cobain – the leader of the band – said that they did it, when found out of the parody Al made. By the way is many say Kurt was a fan of Yankovic and not only once mentioned this fact in his private diaries and notes. 342

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