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The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years
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Genre | Rock |
Format | Dolby, NTSC |
Contributor | Whoopi Goldberg, Elvis Costello, Ron Howard, The Beatles |
Language | English |
Number Of Discs | 1 |
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Ron Howard directs this electrifying documentary that focuses on The Beatles' time spent touring between 1962 and 1966. Through the use of fantastic concert footage-some rarely, if ever, seen-new and archival interviews, and vintage photos, the film chronicles an important era of the band's career, following them from their early performances at the Cavern Club to their famed 1965 show at Shea Stadium to their final concert at Candlestick Park. Features appearances by Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Elvis Costello, Whoopi Goldberg, Sigourney Weaver, and more. 106 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English.
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- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.4 ounces
- Item model number : 43382541
- Director : Ron Howard
- Media Format : Dolby, NTSC
- Run time : 1 hour and 46 minutes
- Release date : November 18, 2016
- Actors : The Beatles, Elvis Costello, Whoopi Goldberg
- Studio : Capitol
- ASIN : B01NA7F5E2
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #9,468 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
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The two-disc special edition includes the excellent documentary "The Beatles: Eight Days A Week - The Touring Years" on Disc 1. Disc 2 contains a bonanza of shorter features and live performances. The bonus material is well worth it too.
Although there's a bit of material showing the Beatles' beginning as the Quarrymen and their experience in Hamburg, the film concentrates on the brief period between 1962-66 when they toured widely in the midst of "Beatlemania." They are shuffled from arena to arena amidst swarms of screaming girls.
In 1966, the stress of touring, and even controversy and threats, turned them sour, so they stopped touring and devoted their energy to studio recordings. The film does not cover the studio years, although there is some footage of their very last live concert recorded on the roof of the Apple Corps studio on London's Savile Row.
It's amazing now to reflect on how short the touring years were and how much the Beatles changed popular music. An excellent Ron Howard documentary with lots of enjoyable bonus material.
The discs include the 100 minutes of documentary material with interviews and performances interspersed within the film. Fans that may already familiar with previous documentaries The Compleat Beatles or Beatles Anthology series, several photos and film and sound bites from the Anthology audio re-mastered recordings are also infused in this documentary; but there is also new material as well, interviews by Paul and Ringo and older ones from John and George and other members of Beatle assistant Neil Aspinall and Promoter Derek Taylor and Producer George Martin. But for the fans that are accustomed to the authenticity and preservation of material, especially with the live filmed performances watching a snippet from band play at their historic first live concert in Washington, D.C. there will be the missing of the original black and white frames replaced by very noticeable colorized tints, this may also be found on other segments from shows in England and the Ed Sullivan show – artistic expression or a blend of home movie segments that were also in the mix? Nevertheless, the live shows were the highlight within the entire documentary and to conclude the band’s concert journey there is a short loop of the rooftop performance in 1969 from the “Let it Be” film where the band plays “I Got a Feeling” and “Don’t Let Me Down”. And as added treats the second disc is a mini-documentary of the band’s musical transitions from their earliest days in Liverpool to there most experimental periods during Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, commentary by close colleagues that they band help to pen songs. And additional live performances “She Loves You,” “Twist and Shout,” “Can’t Buy Me Love,” “You Can’t Do That,” and “Help!” If that is not enough, there is a beautifully written booklet of over 40 pages of photos and commentary, imagine being 10 years old and to see all of this happen before your eyes – it was an amazing time.
Words can say so much about the documentary and by far the music that is still memorable. The entire DVD set is a step back in time but also shows the timeless quality that the band produced that would be emulated but never repeated. The Beatles were one of a kind.
Mr. Howard not only tells the story of the concert years from THEIR perspective, but like he did in "Apollo 13", he actually is able to transport us back to those times, so that we're able to almost FEEL the oppression that their fame put on them. We feel as though we are going through it with them. There is not one second of anonymous voice-over in the film. It is voiced by the members themselves and the people closely involved with them during this time. There is also great deal of footage that I and others have NEVER seen (and those that know me, you know how voracious a fan I am). And the clips and concert footage that HAVE been seen, have been beautifully cleaned up.
About that. A BIG tip-of-the-hat to Music Supervisor Giles Martin (George Martin's son) and Sound Re-recording Mixer Chris Jenkins for their audio work [...] You and I have seen SOME of these clips before, but you've NEVER heard or seen them like this! The concert clips were "re-mixed" (using technology learned from making the "Rock Band" video game) to sound fuller and clearer that we have EVER heard them. And getting all the various interview sound bites and film clips that were recorded over the yeas to sound like they all belong in the same film must have taken a shed-load of work (believe me, I know how hard this task can be).
The two-disc blu-ray disc has one whole disc devoted to the documentary itself and the other disc dedicated entirely to special features (expanded concert footage, the making of A Hard Days Night and MUCH more). Also included, is a thick booklet with extra pictures and an introduction by Ron Howard and an essay by Jon Savage. All worth the price of admission.
This is a must-have for even the casual Beatle fan. It provides a new perspective for those who were either not yet born, to young to have actually experienced the "mania", or for those who's memories of almost 60 years ago have started to fade.
Buy it, rent it, watch it. You WON'T be sorry!!