This has allowed the performance to be heard more clearly over the other background noise including the screaming fans. Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, the foursome’s lone survivors, reminisce at length, often benignly, in between and over concert footage, clips from A Hard Day’s Night and Help! So then it was like, OK, we are going to stop that, Now what can we do?
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“But it got out of hand and the story is that, in the end, it kind of forced us off the road so we had to come back to this studio and make Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”.
But neither Paul McCartney nor Ringo Starr have pulled any strings to get an early peek at director Ron Howard’s new documentary – even though it’s about them.
The film, which has the backing of John Lennon’s widow Yoko Ono, and Olivia Harrison, widow of George, features footage showing how the four-piece worked together to become the most successful band the world has seen.
Asked how they are still able to stay so in tune when thousands of girls were screaming at the top of their voices, McCartney said: “It is unbelievable actually”.
I think I was the last to give in. We knew that was the last gig. “We picked them up”.
Perhaps the best thing about Eight Days a Week is the reminder- desperately needed these days, when nostalgia for a supposed “greater” time is obscuring the horrors of recent history- that the supposedly innocent past was hardly innocent. It is tuned this way, it’s tuned that way.
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The “Can’t Buy Me Love” hitmakers” live days between 1962 and 1966 are the subject of Ron Howard’s new documentary film “The Beatles: Eight Days a Week -The Touring Years’.
