The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years

2016

Action / Documentary / History / Music

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 96% · 105 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 89% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.8/10 10 14516 14.5K

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Plot summary

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.

Director

Ron Howard Photo
Ron Howard

Top cast

Sigourney Weaver Photo
Sigourney Weaver as Self
Whoopi Goldberg Photo
Whoopi Goldberg as Self
Wilfrid Brambell Photo
Wilfrid Brambell as Grandfather in A Hard Day's Night
Eddie Izzard Photo
Eddie Izzard as Self
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972.56 MB
1280*714
English 2.0
Not Rated
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23.976 fps
1 hr 45 min
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1.95 GB
1920*1072
English 5.1
Not Rated
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 45 min
Seeds 7

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by CinemaSerf 7 / 10

It was often said that for people growing

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 interviews from the the surviving members as well as a few super-fans that augment the footage nicely, we see quite a change from the haphazard nature of their image and their performance style - attributed to the vision of manager Brian Epstein, as well as following them through the trials and tribulations of dealing with a world facing some tough times and an USA still riddled with racial division that was about to start to come to an head. Veteran American reporter Larry Kane has some good context to add about his initial scepticism about following a band of Britons around his country before his realisation that they were the news - and big news at that. There are plenty of musical performances and some of the crowd footage is borderline fanatic as people are fainting, screaming and collapsing all over the place. The narrative also helps give us a little insight into why the band stopped playing live too. Diehard fans may have seen all of this before, but it's still an interesting and sometimes quite toxic story to watch unfold.
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Reviewed by michaelRokeefe 8 / 10

Yeah,Yeah,Yeah! A must see documentary for Beatles fans and the late curious!

This is director Ron Howard's ode to the celebrated band The Beatles in formative years centering on the group's touring years circa 1963-1966. Newly restored footage and sound collected from over 200 concerts and locations to become pieces of musical/Beatles history. Plenty of interview snippets bringing some context to their place in time.

Most of the songs imaginable are there in locations like Liverpool, Hamburg, the Netherlands, the Phillipines , Hong Kong, New Zealand, Australia, Hollywood Bowl, The Ed Sullivan Show, The Hullabaloo TV show, Ready, Set, Go TV Show, Shea Stadium and Candlestick Park.

Interviews, some by archive footage, help paint a picture of the Fab Four. We hear from the group itself, plus the individuals and other notables like Ed Sullivan, George Martin, Brian Epstein, Muhammed Ali, Neil Aspinall, Sigourney Weaver, Larry King, Richard Lester, Whoopi Goldberg, Harold James and Eddie Izzard.

Even the non-Beatles fan can find this documentary amazing!

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