“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.
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“And we actually forced them then, which is very early on in the ’60s, to integrate”.
The digitally restored 4k transfer and restoration of the Shea concert footage includes audio remastered at Abbey Road Studios by Giles Martin and Sam Okell. “So we grew up here”. “And we kept coming back and we made some really great music”.
“It’s amusing to say how it felt because it was so insane”, McCartney said. We wanted to do well.
Bandmate Ringo Starr adds, “We had just had enough, we knew that was the last gig”. Former Beatles members Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr joined together for an epic reunion Thursday night in London, and none other than Madonna, the Queen of Pop, was there to celebrate.
The Fab Four gave up performing live in 1966 to focus on making studio LPs and the 74-year-old music legend admits while they did everything they could to keep going, but it was “too much” for them in the end as they could rarely even hear what they were playing due to the screaming fans as “Beatlemania” took hold.
And Ringo, 76, said that he is surprised how many bands nowadays have to use a different guitars for each song they perform, which was the opposite for The Beatles.
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A brisk, busy recap of the Beatles from 1963 to “66 – when they were uniformly mop-topped, clean-shaven and besuited – Ron Howard’s documentary often plays as an advertorial gunning for maximum intergenerational appeal”.
