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Amid Red Rocks Amphitheatre’s flurry of EDM and heritage-rock shows is this master musical parodist’s.—John Wenzel, The Denver Post, 16 Jan. 2025 Tickets for the pop parodist are priced from $159 to $39 and go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday through Ticketmaster.
Yankovic, 64, began playing the accordion at the age of seven and grew up listening to Elton John, Spike Jones, Allan Sherman, Stan Freberg and Frank Zappa.—Ross Raihala, Twin Cities, 23 Sep. 2024 Weird: The Al Yankovic Story — which the accordion-playing master parodist co-wrote and produced — beat out Dolly Parton’s Mountain Magic Christmas, Fire Island, Hocus Pocus 2 and Prey to land Yankovic his first Emmy, adding to a career that’s already witnessed five Grammy Awards wins.—Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2024 And without the thrill of the forbidden, Mickey may not hold that much appeal for parodists either.—Gene Maddaus, Variety, 22 Dec. 2023 See all Example Sentences for parodist
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