Eight Days a Week: The Touring Years follows the band on the road for four years, from their native Liverpool in 1962 through a series of U.S. tours characterised by Beatlemania.
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Oscar-winning director Ron Howard has put together some long-lost and forgotten footage of the Fab 4 to bring the story of their touring years back to life for fans and movie-goers.
John Lennon’s widow Yoko Ono, and Olivia Harrison, widow of George, also attended the screening in London, which followed the world premiere in the Beatles’ home city of Liverpool earlier on Thursday.
As well as the Eight Days A Week film, which is in cinemas in both the United Kingdom and USA now, The Beatles released new live album “Live At The Hollywood Bowl” last Friday (September 9) and saw it debut at Number Three on today’s United Kingdom albums chart.
Macca told reporters: ‘We’re getting great memories obviously of playing with John and George.
‘So that’s very emotional and very special to see that again’.
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The band played their last big concert at Candlestick Park in San Francisco in 1966, and had their last live performance together three years later on the rooftop of their Apple Records headquarters in London. Lots of now famous creative types check in regarding how they were influenced by the Beatles as kids: we hear from Eddie Izard, Richard Curtis, Sigourney Weaver, Whoopi Goldberg, and Elvis Costello, among others. We happen to be two of them and here we are’. Join us in a conversation about world events, the newsgathering process or whatever aspect of the news universe you find interesting or important. McCartney says the band knew it was time to stop touring, partly because fans screamed so loud the band couldn’t hear the music.
