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The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years( 2016)

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The band you know. The story you don't.

Overview

The Beatles stormed through Europe's music scene in 1963, and, in 1964, they conquered America. Their groundbreaking world tours changed global youth culture forever and, arguably, invented mass entertainment as we know it today. All the while, the group were composing and recording a series of extraordinarily successful singles and albums. However the relentless pressure of such unprecedented fame, that in 1966 became uncontrollable turmoil, led to the decision to stop touring. In the ensuing years The Beatles were then free to focus on a series of albums that changed the face of recorded music.

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      Paul McCartney

      Self

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      Ringo Starr

      Self

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      John Lennon

      Self (archive footage)

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      George Harrison

      Self (archive footage)

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      Larry Kane

      Self

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      Whoopi Goldberg

      Self

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      Elvis Costello

      Self

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      Eddie Izzard

      Herself

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      Sigourney Weaver

      Self

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      Richard Lester

      Self

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      Kitty Oliver

      Self

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      Howard Goodall

      Self

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      Jon Savage

      Self

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      Debbie Gendler

      Self

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      Richard Curtis

      Self

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      Malcolm Gladwell

      Self

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      George Martin

      Self (archive footage)

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      Neil Aspinall

      Self (archive footage)

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    A review by CinemaSerf

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    Written by CinemaSerf on Wed Mar 13 2024
    It was often said that for people growing up in some of Britain's post-war industrial cities, the only way up/out was a career in music or boxing! Well these four men chose the former. What's astonishing with this documentary is just how much archive there still is, and at just how decent the quality of the audio is from concerts where the music was essentially just piped around increasingly large venues using the tannoy system. This film takes the band from their conquest of the USA in 1963 through their almost constant touring around the globe for the next four years. Peppered with some inter...

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

    Budget

    5.00

    Revenue

    12283800.00

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