The Analogues were a Dutch tribute act dedicated to recreating the music of the Beatles. Founded in 2014, their goal was to perform the Beatles’ music from the band's later studio years live, using analogue and period-accurate instrumentation. The Beatles had never performed many of these songs or entire albums live. The Analogues gained recognition for their meticulous attention to detail and authenticity. While they did not attempt to resemble the Beatles visually, their performances were celebrated for accurately reproducing the Beatles' distinctive sound and musical complexity. The project ended with a final concert on 28 December 2024 at Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam.

The band was the brainchild of Fred Gehring, the former top executive of the Tommy Hilfiger Corporation. He approached the bassist and producer Bart van Poppel, who, after a thorough analysis of the arrangements on the Beatles’ albums and consultation of "Beatles Gear", a detailed catalogue of all the instruments the Beatles used throughout their career, set out to find instruments faithful to the originals used by the group. This enabled them to source the necessary equipment, such as a Lowrey Heritage Deluxe organ from 1965 or one of only thirty known Mellotrons from a specific series which was used in the intro to "Strawberry Fields Forever".

Before an album could be performed, the band would write out the complex arrangements in full in sheet music. The perfection sought by the Analogues in presenting the Beatles’ sound as accurately as possible live was evident even in such details as the correct choice of bass guitar, the strings fitted to it, and conversion to the same pickups as those used by Paul McCartney.

We don’t try to look like them, so the sound is all that matters […] I see so many videos on YouTube where people are using the wrong bass or wrong strings. Information-wise, there’s a lot of rubbish on the internet. You have to listen carefully to figure out what instruments were used for what parts […].

— Bart van Poppel, Interview for the magazine Guitar World

Through their meticulous study of the Beatles’ songs, their instruments and sound collages, the Analogues were able to reproduce even extremely complex pieces such as "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!", "Good Morning" (featuring self-produced animal sounds at the end) from the "Sgt. Pepper album" or "Revolution 9" from the "White Album" in their live performances. Revolution 9 presented Bart van Poppel with a particular challenge. As the band had made a point of not using samples, the original idea was to stand behind tape recorders in white lab coats, similar to the group Kraftwerk, which were to play their own sound collage. This idea was rejected and instead, the Dutch graphic designer Jaap Drupsteen was commissioned to produce a nine-minute film for "Revolution 9". Drupsteen based his work on the original White Album, and van Poppel subsequently created his own Sound collage to accompany it. When asked, “Didn’t it occur to you to leave out this unwieldy piece with its rather limited entertainment value altogether, so as not to take the momentum out of the show?” (Matthias Halbig), van Poppel replied:

No. We can’t do something like that. It’s part of the album – without ‘Number Nine’, the vision wouldn’t have been realised. We would have brought a curse upon ourselves.

— Bart van Poppel, Interview with Matthias Halbig for the Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland