The two surviving Beatles walked along the blue carpet, showing that nothing has changed in the 54 years since Starr joined the Fab Four.
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Fans will see The Beatles at work in the studio and remastered performances, including their legendary Shea Stadium show in NY, the first rock concert played to more than 55,000 people.
“We haven’t seen it, so we’re looking forward to tomorrow night’s premiere, as you can imagine”.
“The idea that we might play to an audience where there were black people on one side and white people on the other was just, like, a joke to us”, says McCartney. We wanted to do well.
“But it got out of hand and the story is that, in the end, it kind of forced us off the road so we had to come back to this studio and make Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”.
The surviving band members said they were not just proud of their music but also of their stand against racism in the United States when, in 1964, they refused to play to segregated audiences.
“We’re getting great memories obviously of playing with John and George”. By the time we get to the famous Shea Stadium concert of “66 (that’s the one that basically made ’em quit), we can see exactly why they were burnt out, but Eight Days a Week doesn’t spend quite enough time focused on the actual impact their hectic existence had on their personal lives”.
“And we actually forced them then, which is very early on in the ’60s, to integrate”.
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Perhaps the best thing about Eight Days a Week is the reminder- desperately needed these days, when nostalgia for a supposed “greater” time is obscuring the horrors of recent history- that the supposedly innocent past was hardly innocent.
