stackyFACTSNothing screams corporate synergy like trying to trap the biggest band in the world inside an animated bird.
Nothing screams corporate synergy like trying to trap the biggest band in the world inside an animated bird. Disney animators deliberately drew the vultures in 'The Jungle Book' with mop-top haircuts, fully expecting John, Paul, George, and Ringo to voice them. John Lennon allegedly told Disney's middleman to 'hire Elvis instead,' leaving us with a knock-off barbershop quartet that looks suspiciously Liverpudlian but sounds completely wrong.
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