Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years, a new documentary by Oscar-winner Ron Howard, hits select theaters. “So to see us performing as a band is [a] great thing”.
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In interviews, surviving Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr serve as our ever-gracious band ambassadors.
Olivia Harrison and Yoko Ono, the widows of the deceased members, George Harrison and John Lennon also attended the premiere together.
Sir Paul, who said he was wearing the same jacket he donned for the band’s premiere of A Hard Day’s Night back in 1964, was joined by his wife Nancy Shevell and daughter, fashion designer Stella McCartney, while Ringo was accompanied by his wife Barbara Bach.
It’s widely believed that the Beatles didn’t get truly serious until 1966.
She said: “We were privileged to have Ron Howard making this film, he’s a great storyteller and I think he’s learned a lot too”.
Other guests included Bob Geldof, Simon Pegg, Eric Clapton, Michael Keaton, Jools Holland and Peter Jackson.
“Now it’s just proved to be a very gratifying experience, and I’m already nostalgic for it … After two years of working with it, I’m a little sad to let it go”. The pair sat down with Howard for a Facebook Q&A earlier this week and both admitted that they have held off of any demands to see the film before its upcoming release.
The magazine Ultimate Classic Rock quoted the man himself – Paul – as he laughingly remembered the mad frenzy surrounding their shows in the sixties.
He added, “In the cinema, we’re actually going to hear ourselves for the first time”. Most crucially, they abandoned live performance, transitioning from mere flesh-and-blood figures on show at local baseball stadiums to mystical artistes who dispensed vibrant works from their studio laboratory in Swinging London.
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“If you like the Beatles, you’re gonna love this”, Starr said of the doc.
