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.
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Director Ron Howard attends the world premiere of “The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years” in London September 15, 2016.
Viewers will be treated to remastered footage from the band’s historic Shea Stadium concert in NY, the first of its kind to play to more than 55,000 people.
Seriously, though, Paul and Ringo liked Howard’s idea of a film documenting their time on the road.
Paul said: “We haven’t seen it, so we’re looking forward to the premiere, as you can imagine”.
“You couldn’t really hear anything.it was just screams and the recording was pretty much that”. Madonna was also in attendance, singing a tribute to the Beatles on the way to the premiere with a rendition of “A Hard Day’s Night” on Instagram.
“You know, it’s amusing to say how it felt, because it was so insane”.
“But this amusing stuff of like all the screaming and the craziness was coming in at the same time as all the success, which is what we wanted, so we couldn’t complain”.
The Touring Years, directed by Ron Howard, charts the band’s live gigs and meteoric rise to fame in the ’60s.
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“So we got them digitized and restored them to flesh out some of the concert moments, to add a lot more detail and bring the viewer in from arm’s-length, get them up close, intimate”, Howard said. “We happen to be two of them and here we are”. “So one thing I loved in the film was that it shows [that] we put it in our contract: we will not play to a segregated audience”.
