The film – produced by McCartney, Starr, Ono, and Olivia Harrison – offers up exclusive footage of the lads from Liverpool in the early days, as they made their way to small clubs to selling out giant stadiums. They will be joined at Thursday night’s premiere by the film’s Oscar-winning director Ron Howard whose credits include The Da Vinci Code and A Beautiful Mind.
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Fans can look forward to remastered footage from their historic Shea Stadium concert in NY, the first rock gig played to more than 55,000 people.
Seriously, though, Paul and Ringo liked Howard’s idea of a film documenting their time on the road.
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“So we were doing what we really wanted to achieve and it was getting better and better”.
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In interviews, surviving Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr serve as our ever-gracious band ambassadors. It examines the impact of those years on each of The Beatles – the toll that touring took on their relationships and the effect it had on their musical evolution, as well as the colossal boost the tours gave to their lifestyle and fame. It’s excellent to see how much they looked out for one another, and the soundtrack is obviously crammed with Beatles gold, but this one might not have major appeal to those who aren’t Beatle-maniacs or already know the tale. So then it was like, OK, we are going to stop that, Now what can we do? “And so it’s a great thing that we actually even put it in the contract”.
