The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years

The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years

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

NR 2016 · 106 min · ★ 7.5 · Documentary, Music

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.

Directed by Ron Howard · Written by P.G. Morgan

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Paul McCartney Self
Ringo Starr Self
John Lennon Self (Archive Footage)
George Harrison Self (Archive Footage)
Larry Kane Self
Whoopi Goldberg Self
Elvis Costello Self
Suzy Eddie Izzard Herself
Sigourney Weaver Self
Richard Lester Self
Kitty Oliver Self
Howard Goodall Self

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