"Weird Al" Yankovic - One of the all-time greats!

Yankovic still 'Weird' after all these years

By Todd Leopold, CNN

October 30, 2009 4:04 p.m. EDT

'Weird Al' treatment an 'homage'

 

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• Accordion-playing "Weird Al" Yankovic has been making music for more than 30 years
• What's usually a novelty -- song parodies -- has become art, career for musician
• New double-CD set celebrates career, including hits "Eat It," "Like a Surgeon"

(CNN) -- In the 1980s, it was easy to dismiss the accordion-toting "Weird Al" Yankovic as a one-joke wonder.
Sure, the joke was funny. Those song parodies, such as "Eat It" or "I Lost on Jeopardy"? Clever, as were the note-perfect videos for them that played constantly on MTV. (Occasionally, Yankovic would take over the channel, rechristening it "AlTV.")