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The Beatles at the movies: “Eight Days A Week – The Touring Years”
In the years 1962 to 1966, the Beatles were almost continuously on Tour. This years Director Ron Howard has focused his impressive documentation and provides some Surprises.
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Four musicians that changed the world
Whole libraries have been written about the Beatles, a number of films about the Fab Four, the Internet is full with stories about the musicians. However, Director Ron Howard succeeds in the feat, to open with his Film “Eight Days A Week – The Touring Years” a new look at the Beatles.
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It all started in the basement
“The Touring Years” is the name of the Beatles documentary Ron Howard in the subtitles, and indicates what the cinema audience gets to see. It is the years in which the four musicians appeared on the stages of the world are cast, in the original, between 1962 and 1966. Went to’s yet unspectacular with a small basement concerts.
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From the leather jacket in the suit
John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr appeared first young emphasized finally in the Rock’n’Roll leather gap. With Manager Brian Epstein, the group began to change. Mushroom hairstyles and dark suits were their trademark. The Film “Eight Days A Year – The Touring Years” documented in this fashionable change.
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Intelligent, playful, and funny
The four musicians were, at least at the beginning of the career, a very playful, witty and charming Quartet. The Film seems to be a catch. And: The Beatles knew how to deal with them-facing cameras. They dominated early in the game with the media, spontaneous, ironic and intelligent.
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Always on the stage
In the years between 1962 and 1966, the Beatles played over 800 Times on the stage in their native England as well as in many other countries. They were virtually continuously on stage: eight days a week!
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Behind-the-Scenes
However, the documentation of Ron Howard is not restricted to stage performances of the musicians. “Eight Days A Week – The Touring Years” shines with a lot of rarely shown, and also with previously unreleased film material. So you see, the Beatles also in periods of rest between performances.
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The magic of the Beatles
… comes over in the movie “Eight Days A Week” very well. Anyone who loves the music of the Band, who is interested in pop music in General, comes at his expense. “Eight Days A Week – The Touring Years” is certainly one of the most successful music documentaries of recent years.
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Four musicians that changed the world
Whole libraries have been written about the Beatles, a number of films about the Fab Four, the Internet is full with stories about the musicians. However, Director Ron Howard succeeds in the feat, to open with his Film “Eight Days A Week – The Touring Years” a new look at the Beatles.
-
It all started in the basement
“The Touring Years” is the name of the Beatles documentary Ron Howard in the subtitles, and indicates what the cinema audience gets to see. It is the years in which the four musicians appeared on the stages of the world are cast, in the original, between 1962 and 1966. Went to’s yet unspectacular with a small basement concerts.
-
From the leather jacket in the suit
John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr appeared first young emphasized finally in the Rock’n’Roll leather gap. With Manager Brian Epstein, the group began to change. Mushroom hairstyles and dark suits were their trademark. The Film “Eight Days A Year – The Touring Years” documented in this fashionable change.
-
Intelligent, playful, and funny
The four musicians were, at least at the beginning of the career, a very playful, witty and charming Quartet. The Film seems to be a catch. And: The Beatles knew how to deal with them-facing cameras. They dominated early in the game with the media, spontaneous, ironic and intelligent.
-
Always on the stage
In the years between 1962 and 1966, the Beatles played over 800 Times on the stage in their native England as well as in many other countries. They were virtually continuously on stage: eight days a week!
-
Behind-the-Scenes
However, the documentation of Ron Howard is not restricted to stage performances of the musicians. “Eight Days A Week – The Touring Years” shines with a lot of rarely shown, and also with previously unreleased film material. So you see, the Beatles also in periods of rest between performances.
-
The magic of the Beatles
… comes over in the movie “Eight Days A Week” very well. Anyone who loves the music of the Band, who is interested in pop music in General, comes at his expense. “Eight Days A Week – The Touring Years” is certainly one of the most successful music documentaries of recent years.
The Beatles – the most successful and probably the most famous pop group in the world. The fame of the Fab Four has not only held, it grew into Immense. The Beatles wrote Rock and pop history, they are an integral part of the cultural history of the last century.
Much of it is about the Beatles known – but the Film brings new insights
There is a lot of or possibly all been told about the four musicians, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr – one would think. The story of the Beatles, you is what counts – you would think. And it’s not like that with Ron Howard’s Beatles movie, “Eight Days A Week – The Touring Years” in the history of the Beatles or even rock music is now rewritten.
Probably more or less every Detail of the Band’s history, as Howard tells the story in his Film, somewhere, already documented in books, films, documents of any kind. And also the photos and film sequences, which the Director brought together and assembled, are not new. They were all written in the years up to 1970. One sees at once from the for the Film led to the current Interviews with the two Beatles Survivors Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, as well as some of the companions of that time and (now) celebrity Fans.
Short tour-history – long-lasting effect: The Beatles
And yet, Eight Days A Week – The Touring Years, “” a stunning Film. Because he actually shows a lot of what was previously seen only rarely, or never, at least not on the big screen and, in this context. And then especially because he calls a lot in memory. The Name of the Beatles today appears so enormous, that you are sitting in the cinema and stunned about is how short the history of the Band only lasted.
You look at the years of public appearances, there are just four. In the summer of 1962, it was, and in 1966, it was already over – with that legendary concert in San Francisco, the missriet for various reasons so thoroughly. It’s the last should be of the Band in front of a large audience. Four years of gigs – a today, it is hardly comprehensible short Episode brought so much to the roles. This is a miracle that the Film “Eight Days A Week” tells the story.
Beatlemania – the birth of the hysteria
Another is the enthusiasm. As the “Beatlemania” has burned, the Fan hysteria to the memory of posterity. The screaming Girls, the completely enthemmte teen audience, the powerlessness of the girl’s seizures, all the Film shows this and indicates, incidentally, that the mass hysteria was not invented in the digital age. On The Contrary. If today’s pop stars attract millions, then the enthusiasm through the Internet and global media is channeled to supply a long time ago. In the case of the Beatles, you had Immediate actually something.
And the Manager and the Beatles-the inventor, Brian Epstein and George Martin were certainly in your time awesome and inventive, but with the overwhelming success of the Band knew, they hardly deal with it. Otherwise the Beatles would have occurred, probably far longer, they would have worked well together over the year, 1970, would not have been so burned out early.
Today, pop stars are constructed carefully, they are accompanied by a host of managers in the global music world. At the time, it was different – the Film shows this impressively: The four musicians were overwhelmed, the managers were overwhelmed, the security forces in the stadiums and concert halls were overwhelmed.
The Beatles were ahead of their time
The Beatles – this is a realization of “Eight Days A Week” were ahead of their time. Musically and artistically, anyway. But the four musicians from Liverpool, blasted at the time, with their popularity, all the social structures. This was to be their undoing and ultimately led to the end of the Band.
In the years 1965/66 Lennon, McCartney, Harrison and Starr were increasingly annoyed by the circumstances under which they had to make music. To do this, they had eventually tired of that. They had lost the fun at the music circus. With remarkable consistency, they retreated from the stage. A – from the present perspective the unrestrained narcissism-prone society – incredibly humble and focused attitude.