The documentary screening, which features the band’s behind-the-scenes footage, interviews and unheard music as it rose to superstardom fifty years ago, saw a star-studded premiere at London’s Leicester Square.
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“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.
Viewers will also be treated to remastered footage from their historic Shea Stadium concert in NY, the first rock gig played to more than 55,000 people.
The two surviving Beatles are back together! 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. “We couldn’t hear ourselves when we were live, as there was so much screaming going on”. “That’s enough of that”, was the general sentiment-advanced most strongly by Harrison, we’re told-and the band retreated to the studio, at which point Howard puts the film in wrap-up mode. “But I like to think we made a little bit of a connection”. We get just enough about the rigors of meeting the public’s demand for new records to explain what a whirlwind of work the years 1964-1966 were for these young men, making their decision to retreat easy to understand.
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Sir Paul said: “We were kind of quite intelligent guys, looking at the political scene and, coming from Liverpool, we played with black bands and black people in the audience, it didn’t matter to us”.
