“The Beatles: Eight Days A Week-The Touring Years”, directed by Ron Howard (“A Beautiful Mind”, “Apollo 13”), is a thoroughly delightful, crisply edited film that takes viewers to Europe, Australia, the Far East and the US where, between June 1962 and August 1966, the Fab Four played in 90 cities in 15 countries.
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The two surviving Beatles walked along the blue carpet, showing that nothing has changed in the 54 years since Starr joined the Fab Four.
As well as the Eight Days A Week film, which is in cinemas in both the United Kingdom and U.S. now, The Beatles released new live album “Live At The Hollywood Bowl” last Friday (September 9) and saw it debut at Number Three on today’s United Kingdom albums chart.
Macca told reporters: ‘We’re getting great memories obviously of playing with John and George.
“So that’s very emotional and very special to see that again”.
The film project has the backing of Yoko Ono, the widow of John Lennon, and Olivia Harrison, widow of George Harrison.
Starr described their enduring fame as “beautiful” before adding: ‘People love the Beatles.
As John Lennon says in one of his funniest rejoinders, if the band knew why people were so insane about them “we’d form another group and become managers”. “We couldn’t hear ourselves when we were live, as there was so much screaming going on”. Most of it comes from fans; one woman discovered film of the band walking out to play their last concert, at San Francisco’s Candlestick Park, under her bed.
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“So to see us performing as a band is a great thing, because without that, we couldn’t have made the records”.
