Shampoo were an Italian tribute/parody band from Naples, who enjoyed a short period of popularity in the early 1980s as spoofers of the Beatles.
The band’s arrangements, sounds and vocals were remarkably similar to the originals: indeed, unlike their contemporary British "colleagues" The Rutles, whose repertoire consisted in Beatles-sounding original songs (the four Neapolitans were not only aware but highly respectful of the Rutles, thanks to bassist Costantino Iaccarino being an early fan of Monty Python when the troupe was virtually unknown in Italy), Shampoo had an attitude more like a tribute band, in that the music was left untouched; however, the song lyrics were all rewritten in strict Neapolitan and verged on incomprehensibility for non-Neapolitans because of their abundant use of local slang expressions, which made the band sound to outsiders like they were singing in garbled English.
The rewritten lyrics are mainly about the suburban world of Naples and feature many colourful, ironical portraits of picturesque local characters; the only exceptions are “Si fosse 'o re” (“If I were the king”), a rewrite of “Because”, where a boy imagines himself as a fairy-tale king in a sentimental plea to his girlfriend, and “So' fesso” (“I'm stupid”), a partial parody of “No Reply", where a heartbroken lover blames himself for driving his loved one away from him.
[4] Two more reunions followed: one for the 2003 “Beatles Day” in Brescia and one for the forty-fifth anniversary of “Love Me Do” in 2006, performing the song live in Rome along with several other Italian acts.
The site has since gone offline and the album itself has never materialized, although SH+ produced two videos for two new tracks (respectively parodies of "Hey Jude" and "The Long and Winding Road", still rewritten in Neapolitan but in a slightly more serious vein than previous Shampoo material) and performed all 12 of them during their 2008–2009 live shows; the videos and the tracks were subsequently hosted on the band's MySpace blog, active until April 2012.