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The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years

 
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becky sharp



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PostPosted: Sat Sep 17, 2016 8:15 am    Post subject: The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years Reply with quote

Went to see this on Thursday night....needless to say I LOVED it! Cool

Ron Howard trashes the idea that there’s nothing new to say about the Beatles with a revealing survey of the four-year odyssey that changed everything

Eight Days a Week is about what amounted to an almost unbroken four-year, semi-improvised multimedia performance for which there was no pre-existing template – not simply the music but the giant public spectacle and public scrutiny, the theatre of arriving at airports, hotels, posing for incessant photographs, and most challengingly of all, talking to journalists. With wit and good humour far in advance of anything being shown by the press corps, the Beatles came up with snappy but good-natured replies to the questions. Eddie Izzard interestingly comments on their style. All too clearly, with pointed questions about how long the group expected all this to go on, the press was waiting for a comeuppance. Eventually it came, with John Lennon’s remarks about the Beatles being bigger than Christianity. Not in the US Bible belt they weren’t. (A more accurate blasphemy would be to say they were bigger than Shakespeare.) The row soured the exhausted Beatles’ already darkening mood and it was time to quit touring.


https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/sep/15/the-beatles-eight-days-a-week-review-ron-howard-documentary
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 04, 2018 1:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This film is on Channel 4 tomorrow night at 9

Fans of the Fab Four will love it. Cool
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