The two remaining Beatles were in high spirits as they celebrated director Ron Howard’s new documentary, which tells the story of the band’s touring years through behind-the-scenes footage, interviews and previously unreleased music.
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Macca told reporters: ‘We’re getting great memories obviously of playing with John and George.
The Touring Years, directed by Ron Howard, charts the band’s live gigs and meteoric rise to fame in the ’60s.
John Lennon’s widow Yoko Ono, and Olivia Harrison, widow of George, also attended the screening in London, which followed the world premiere in the Beatles’ home city of Liverpool earlier on Thursday.
“So that’s very emotional and very special to see that again”. We happen to be two of them and here we are’.
Alluding to the fact that the band famously quit touring partly because they couldn’t cope with the crushing crowd noise they generated at their peak, McCartney added, “In the cinema, we’re actually going to hear ourselves for the first time”.
The singer admits he was the last to “give in” and accept the Fab Four were finished, and it took a chaotic 1966 show at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, California for him to realise the band’s days were numbered. This has allowed the performance to be heard more clearly over the other background noise including the screaming fans.
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