The surviving Beatles will get together for the British premiere of director Ron Howard’s film that documents the band’s chaotic years on the road.
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Appearing at the screening in London, which followed the world premier in Liverpool earlier on Thursday, McCartney said the documentary brought back fond memories.
He was joined by his wife Nancy Shevell and daughter Stella McCartney while Starr was accompanied by his wife Barbara Bach.
Half a century since the Beatles played their last major concert-at Candlestick Park in San Francisco-Starr said their enduring popularity was “beautiful”.
Special events have been going on across the city, with people having the chance to visit the Town Hall balcony, where the Beatles waved to tens of thousands of fans when they returned home for the Hard Day’s Night premiere in 1964. We happen to be two of them and here we are’. But now it can be told: the only reason Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr approved the project is because they were fans of Howard’s old TV shows.
“The music wasn’t being heard”, he said.
She said: “We were privileged to have Ron Howard making this film, he’s a great storyteller and I think he’s learned a lot too”.
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You are reading news and information on LongIsland.com, Long Island’s Most Popular Website, Since 1996. “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”. “And we kept coming back and we made some really great music”. Frantically rushing through the quartet’s prodigious output during these years, Eight Days a Week is best when it slows down, allowing a performance of, say, “I Feel Fine” to be heard and seen in full, rather than interrupting these soaring melodies so that Malcolm Gladwell can redundantly discuss “the emergence of teenage culture”. “That was the foundation of everything we recorded”.
