Ringo Starr and Sir Paul McCartney brought a little Beatlemania to London’s Leicester Square for the debut of The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years, directed by Oscar victor Ron Howard.
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Eight Days A Week tracks the Beatles during their touring years, from 1962 to 1966.
The film, which has the backing of John Lennon’s widow Yoko Ono, and Olivia Harrison, widow of George, features footage showing how the four-piece worked together to become the most successful band the world has seen.
Speaking at the premiere, director Ron told BANG Showbiz: “It would have been a different story with John and George, it would have been even better fleshed out”.
“People love the Beatles”.
Director Ron Howard attends the world premiere of “The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years” in London September 15, 2016.
“For so long we were a foursome, then we split up, but we were still a foursome”, McCartney said while discussing the film.
“The music wasn’t being heard”, he said.
“I said that we are opening the movie, and Tulsa’s audience would like to hear his thoughts, and I included an image of his granite medallion” with his name on it, Foxen said, referring to the theater’s “Walk of Fame” markers on the sidewalk in front of the theater.
Starr told the BBC they realised it was the moment to stop: “We had just had enough, we knew that was the last gig, it was time”.
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The Beatles played their last live performance three years after the Candlestick Park concert, on the rooftop of their Apple Records headquarters in London.
