Watch legendary album covers come to life in this brilliant & hypnotic music video, Mayokero, by Israeli comic artist Roy Kafri. Watch Bob Dylan, Michael Jackson, Prince, David Bowie, Madonna and more start singing on the sleeves! This is the best slice of entertainment you’ll watch today!
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You might not have heard of him but Roy Kafri is a comedic singer and beat-boxer from Israel and this track, Mayokero, is the first single to be taken from Kafri’s album, Acowpella Beatbox.
The amazing music video is the work of Vania Heymann, a second year student in Bezalel School of Art and Design, who actually got a whole crew of actors involved to help him put the classic album covers into live singing action.
Among the albums featured are: Michael Jackson’s Thriller, The Smiths’ Meat Is Murder, Simon & Garfunkel’s Wednesday Morning, 3 AM, David Bowie’s Aladdin Sane, Prince’s eponymous second album, Jeff Buckley’s Grace, and Bob Dylan’s Highway 61 Revisted.
You’ll also see: Françoise Hardy, Lionel Richie, Aretha Franklin, ABBA, Madonna, Lou Reed, Beastie Boys, Run DMC, Ahmad Jamal, Big Star, Serge Gainsborugh and Jane Birkin, and The Beatles.
Out favourite bit of animation is the bringing to life of the iconic Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd to blazing life – and the banana on the cover of The Velvet Underground & Nico turning bad! The video also has a story about a man with great taste in music who chucks out his old vinyls and gets into consumer electronics…
