Steve Landes

(Vocals, Rhythm Guitar, Piano, Harmonica)

With a singing voice dead-on to the young John Lennon's, Steve was the perfect replacement in Rain for Jim Riddle, the Lennon portrayer who succumbed tragically to a brain tumor in 1997. The precocious Steve taught himself guitar at 10 listening to Beatles records and by 13 was fronting a Top 40 cover band in his native Philadelphia area. At 17 he joined Beatlemania and further developed his musicianship, including as a Beatlemania roommate and close friend of Riddle. Steve later honed acting skills in a Los Angeles play, The Fab Four. After passing the audition with Rain, his career was set. On one of his travels to England , he found himself at Liverpool's Casbah Club, owned by pre-Ringo Beatles drummer Pete Best. Encouraged to get on stage, Steve belted the rocker Slow Down, on which Lennon sang lead on a 1965 Beatles record. Best cited the performance at a Beatles convention, saying it helped make for one of the best nights ever at the Casbah.

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Joey Curatolo

(Vocals, Bass, Piano, Guitar)

Unquestionably the greatest artist to portray Paul McCartney on stage, Joey grew up in a Brooklyn household where classical music and opera formed the soundtrack. A natural musician and singer, he was infatuated with the Beatles when they hit America, taught himself guitar at 10, played piano by ear and at 16 was moonlighting in a traveling Top 40 cover band. At 17, Joey was entered by friends into a McCartney sound-alike contest at a Beatle festival. Without preparation, he won and caught the eye of a producer for the Broadway production of Beatlemania. Joey ended up in the West Coast version. He joined Rain in 1983 - helping propel the band into a class by itself. Today, his vocals and bass, piano and guitar playing remain as powerful as ever.


Joe Bithorn

(Vocals, Lead Guitar)

George Harrison portrayer Joe grew up on the same Manhattan block where jazz genius Thelonious Monk resided. Steeped in classical music and jazz, young Joe nevertheless dabbled in many genres when teaching himself acoustic guitar. Smitten by the Beatles, at 9 he switched to electric guitar and by 13 was famous in his neighborhood. By 16 he was a studio session musician. He joined a national tour of Beatlemania, mastering Harrison's scouse accent on the job. Joe passed Rain's audition by playing both lead guitar parts simultaneously of And Your Bird Can Sing, which Harrison and McCartney played in the studio. Joe managed the feat by employing double-stop bends on the strings, playing an open E string while bending the B string on the seventh fret. In Rain he manages all sorts of fret-board wizardry - including replicating studio sounds with a guitar synthesizer.


Ralph Castelli

(Drums, Percussion, Vocals)

The son of Italian immigrants, Ralph Castelli was raised in a talented musical family where the accordion, guitar and drums surrounded him throughout his life.  In the Castelli home in Alhambra, California, a variety of musical styles from opera to Frank Sinatra, were always on the turntable.  By age six, Ralph secretly pounded away on his older brother's drum set and his Mom's pots and pans. Music was in his blood!

On that momentous night in February, 1964 when The Beatles first appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show, Ralph sat in front of the TV and knew that playing drums was what he was born to do. So captivated by Ringo Starr and The Beatles that night, his excitement continued to grow and little did he know at the time exactly how his dream would become a reality.

After performing and touring in numerous bands, Ralph was spotted and received the opportunity to portray Ringo in the Broadway production of "Beatlemania."  His drum technique, style, humor, appearance and all his hard work had paid off.  He was also lucky enough to play Starr in the film version of "Beatlemania."

Ralph joined RAIN in 1986  and is currently touring the world in "Rain - The Beatles Experience."


Mark Lewis
(Keyboards, Percussion)


The managerial and creative mind that transformed Rain from a 1970s southern California bar band doing Beatles covers into an ultra-professional act with the best musicians in the world, offstage keyboardist Mark traces his love of the Fab Four to the Sunday night of Feb. 9, 1964, when his generation was smitten by the Beatles appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. An accomplished pianist at 13, having studied since age 5, Mark was soon playing the Farfisa organ in teenage rock bands around his native Los Angeles. After college he met two talented musicians who did Beatles covers in a bar band called Reign. Over the next five years the band gained regional fame, changed its spelling to Rain, cut the soundtrack to the made-for-TV movie Birth of the Beatles, but nearly unraveled numerous times trying to do its own songs and win a record contract. Only Mark stuck it out, took over the managerial reins and recruited the committed quartet of proficient musicians and stage performers who would gel into Rain's longstanding lineup. Mark ensures the Beatles' studio sound is replicated in full during Rain shows, playing piano and organ and inserting necessary sounds of the Beatles background instrumentation he's painstakingly recorded.


A MESSAGE FROM RAIN

In order to maintain the musical integrity of our show, and continue to perform the music of The Beatles to as many of our fans as possible, it has become necessary for us to bring in some new band members who will alternate performing with us on tour.  These musicians are exceptionally talented individuals and this will insure that our shows will continue to be of the highest caliber.  We thank you for your continued support and look forward to seeing you soon.