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Before YouTube came along and allowed everyone and their slightly off-kilter 13-year-old cousin to spoof all those fluffy radio hits, pop culturists largely looked to one mustachioed madman to skewer the Madonnas of the world: "Weird Al" Yankovic. • Times might have changed (and his 'stache might be gone), but 50-year-old Alfred Matthew Yankovic is still out there, satirizing the chart-toppers. On Sunday at the Mahaffey Theater in St. Petersburg, the Weird One — with his trusty accordion all juiced up — will go live with such classics as Eat It and Smells Like Nirvana. Will he also take a p-p-poke at Lady Gaga? • In a recent podcast interview, Stuck in the '80s boys Sean Daly and Steve Spears just had to know which current artists are in Al's crosshairs, whether the '80s were better for mocking people and if he ever met the King of Pop:
Did Michael Jackson ever give you any feedback on your skewering of Beat It and Bad?
Want to know what he said? To hear the full "Weird Al" Yankovic interview, go to tampabay.com/blogs/80s. or read the blog here.
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