When someone mentions the Fab 4 you automatically think of 4 young guys from Liverpool and thousands of screaming girls surrounding them. This Friday Ron Howard’s The Beatles: Eight Days A Week-Touring Years will take us back to those days but from a side of The Beatles we rarely see. We’re only hours away from that world premiere and those Beatlemaniacs at Studiocanal have sent a great clip, which shows the boys arriving in USA for the very first time and John Lennon saying ‘Everything was American’ The movies, Disneyland, Doris Day, Rock Hudson The Motherland for British performers…
After their now-legendary North American debut on “The Ed Sullivan Show” in 1964, The Beatles transfixed the U.S. and the tremors were felt worldwide, transforming music and pop culture forever with their records and television appearances. The Beatles’ extraordinary musicianship and charisma also made them one of the greatest live bands of all time. In The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years, Oscar®-winning director Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind, Apollo 13) explores the history of The Beatles through the lens of the group’s concert performances, from their early days playing small clubs in Liverpool and Hamburg to their unprecedented world tours in packed stadiums around the globe from New York to Melbourne to Tokyo. The first feature-length documentary authorized by The Beatles since the band’s breakup in 1970, Eight Days a Week features rare and never-before-seen archival footage of shows and interviews, plus new interviews with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and numerous prominent observers. The film captures the exhilaration of The Beatles’ phenomenal rise to fame as well as the toll it eventually took on the band members, prompting them to stop touring altogether in August 1966 and devote their prodigious musical energy to the series of ground-breaking studio recordings for which they are best known today.
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. This has allowed the performance to be heard more clearly over the other background noise including the screaming fans. For the first time ever the viewer is able to experience the concert as it was meant to be seen and heard and to appreciate how extraordinary this band was live given the challenging technical conditions under which they were expected to play.
See the film and stay for an exclusive in-cinema only screening of 30 minutes from the 1965 performance from Shea Stadium.
Also today Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and Ron Howard will take part in a Facebook Live interview on 14 September 2016 at 12.40pm.
Streamed exclusively on The Beatles Official Facebook page, compered by Edith Bowman and in partnership with Facebook and Apple Corps Ltd, this interview will celebrate the release of The Beatles: Eight Days A Week – The Touring Years ahead of its World Premiere in London’s Leicester Square on 15 September 2016.
Check out that Interview here at The Beatles Facebook.
