Grapefruit

Grapefruit were one of the better Beatlesque late-'60s British pop-rock bands. In 1968 they seemed on the way to stardom, with a couple of small hit British singles and, more importantly, some help from The Beatles themselves. Led by George Alexander, brother of The Easybeats' George Young, the group were at the outset cheerful harmony pop/rockers with similarities to The Easybeats, Bee Gees, and some Paul Mccartney-penned tunes from The Beatles' own psych-pop era. Not quite as incessantly chipper as The Easybeats, not as melodramatic as The Bee Gees, and certainly not as inventive as The Beatles, they were nonetheless similarly skilled at blending melodic pop with sophisticated arrangements that employed baroque/psychedelic touches of strings, orchestration, and several varieties of keyboards. A disappointing second album, however, helped sink them out of sight, and The Beatles couldn't be of help as they were preoccupied with their own imminent dissolution.

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