A year later – 50 years ago – the group gave up touring for good.
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In a new trailer for Ron Howard’s forthcoming documentary, The Beatles: Eight Days A Week – The Touring Years, the band reveals the personal price exacted as the world went insane for the Fab Four.
The Beatles historic Shea Stadium concert from 1965 will screen in cinemas with the new Ron Howard documentary “Eight Days A Week“.
It has been given a 4K restoration, and the sound has been upgraded by Giles Martin, son of Beatles original producer George Martin. The event was captured using 14 35mm cameras by Ed Sullivan Productions. It includes performances of “A Hard Day’s Night”, “I’m Down”, “Everybody’s Trying To Be My Baby” and “Dizzy Miss Lizzy”. The film will focus on the time period from the early Beatles’ journey in the days of The Cavern Club in Liverpool to their last concert at Candlestick Park in San Francisco in 1966.
“This mania was so much pressure”, says Starr, while McCartney adds, “We were kids”. We all started to get pretty fed up. The amusing thing, then, about those low stakes is that this film’s promise of high-definition, never-before-seen footage is good enough, because if you don’t have expectations or, for that matter, great excitement, just about anything worthwhile can sweeten the deal.
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Howard’s documentary combines existing footage of the Beatles performing live with fan-submitted films and photos to give neophyte and longtime fans a fresh look at the Beatles as a touring unit.
