Otherwise known as Adam Hastings, the Beatle impersonator loves bringing his Fab Four Down Under to soak up one of the best coastlines he's ever seen.

The group is hitting Anita's Theatre on Saturday, though there may not be any more trips to Skydive on the Beach during this tour.

"What I remember about [Wollongong] is I did my first ever sky dive there - I went back a week later because I liked it so much!" said Hastings. "It was one of the best days of my life . . . the moment when the parachute opens and it all goes quiet and then you really take in the coastline, that's one of those surreal 'the world is beautiful' kind of moments . . . It was brilliant, but they don't let us do that any more in case we die, or break a leg or something."

Not that I've ever met the real John Lennon, I picture him sitting on the other side of the phone line through the thick British accent.

His alter ego, Hastings tells me it comes naturally to spend his time pretending to be someone he's not.

"I don't feel like somebody else, but I know I must do a very good job . . . so the people that are watching feel like they're watching someone else," he said.

"[If] for a few seconds the hair stands up on the back of their neck, then we've done our job . . . but the Beatles songs do a lot of the work for you because they're so good.

"As long as you can do them as much justice as you can, you won't go far wrong because people love the songs."

The troupe tries its hardest to be authentic. The band's Paul McCartney - aka Steve White - is right-handed but has learnt to play left handed "just as Paul would".

The tribute group originally formed in 1979, however, the original members slowly retired and new members joined to keep the Bootleg Beatles alive, and touring all corners of the Earth.

"The most unexpected place we've [been] to was Mongolia . . . and we met the mayor of the capital, got police escorts, and were treated like royalty. No-one could speak a word of English but everyone knew all the words to the Beatles songs - it was amazing!"

Despite the original group of John Lennon, Ringo Starr, George Harrison and Paul McCartney only being together around nine years, their music still captivates audiences more than 40 years later.

Today, fans can relive the magic or experience it for the first time with Adam Hastings and his friends, as they travel through time beginning with mop-tops, then transcending through to the psychedelic era of long hair and round coloured glasses.

The show aims to pack as many hits in around two hours as possible, though, as I'm reminded, the Beatles had so many hits "you can never play them all".

I'm also told they're bringing a nine-piece orchestra along for the ride, to "play the songs the Beatles never played live". So expect I Am The Walrus, A Day In The Life and Eleanor Rigby.