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Still Yanking the Chain: Video Gangster: “Weird Al” pledges to use ample props to help recreate his award-winning parody videos (like “I’m Fat” and “Amish Paradise”) on the Golden State stage.

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Grammy-winning “Weird Al” Yankovic stops in Monterey to lampoon pop music.

The pop music scene of the ‘80s was ripe for ridiculing. There were artists with mousse-induced, gravity defying ‘dos. There were the first music videos, where musicians “acted” poorly, or just danced around maniacally. It ...

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