Eight Days A Week: The Touring Years[Deluxe 2 Blu-ray]

The movie was awesome.

Fantastically enjoyable film. Too short. I find I always want a different end, like "Having realized they needed some time off, the Beatles took a break from 1970 to 1975 - by which point they were all desperate to get out of the house and tour again. ' We really needed to take a break, so we did' said George. Etc.But the story unfolds the same way it did. You want to scream through the lens "You were too good to just let it go!"While, as other reviewers here have mentioned, several parts of this film have already been seen before, what they didn't mention was that the parts we'd all seen before had such terrible quality - black and white film that's scratched and silent or color with terrible sound... etc - that they weren't really entertaining, certainly not enough to hold up to our expectations. What Ron Howard et al appear to have done is resurrect the reality of the images, the reality of the sound AS IT WAS EXPERIENCED THEN. This must have taken heroic efforts. We're all familiar with the source material and should be familiar with the fact that the source stuff was unviewable, largely, except by the most dedicated Beatle fan. Not sure how Ron Howard did it but he filled in the blanks, fleshed out the sound... resurrected the experience.This film is not great art but it is great, thus my 4/5 rating. Given the scale of the mountain (that is representing the Beatles throughout their touring years) it's impressive that anyone scaled it at all - but I would dearly love to have seen the film broken up into at least 4 segments, maybe one for each year. Also, their tours started in England and I don't recall seeing much if anything from England (except their Liverpool concert briefly... which was amazing... and a short bit from the Cavern [which I have seen before in its erratic, soundless, shaky, original state].... but certainly nothing from their dues-paying period. They toured Britain for years before breaking big.No mention was made of their original drummer, Pete Best, either. He was in the Beatles for two years - while they were touring. So if you're going to cover their entire touring period...There were several unforgettable scenes in this film - some of which I have never even heard of before (the entire crowd at a soccer tournament singing a Beatles song... nothing like seeing 60,000 men [almost entirely] swaying to the beat and singing "I Want to Hold Your Hand" or something from that epoch). It was a Liverpool crowd and you could see their 60s-era machismo politely set aside to sing the song of the town's beloved band. All ages. Clearly working class. It was hilarious and amazing. And it conveys something that should have been noted but wasn't - that Liverpool had a tradition of group singing. Paul and Ringo's fathers had played in bands of their own around Liverpool... even John's performed on ships. There's a short film of Paul from the mid 1970s at a large pub in Liverpool, the camera seeks him out but most of the crowd doesn't. He's just there, sipping a beer in a standing room only crowd, letting two middle aged men command the floor with a song of their own. The Beatles grew up in a town that considered group singing to be natural AND masculine.The film also skips over Cynthia's relationship to John. She shows up in one photo of the family. It was almost certainly Cynthia's pregnancy that finally lit enough of a fire under John's ass to make him want to make money - and make enough capitulations to do that. He donned the appeasing smile, the cute suits, and the 'chirpy lad' shtick - which was critical to the Beatles' 'making it' - only after Cynthia's pregnancy had worked its chemistry. Prior to that he would have happily told anyone with business ideas for his band - that involved changing their appearance, stage conduct, clothes, song choices, etc- to go F themselves in no uncertain terms.I'm not sure why those choices were made but I guess a lot had to be culled to fit the film into a watchable time... if only they'd broken up the film, as I mentioned.Overall it's well-paced, informative and actually approximates a live show experience in several scenes.

I've heard about this movie for years. I bought the CD, and never came close to getting the DVD. The DVD tells the Beatles' touring story right to the end of it all. I am very impressed Ron Howard made certain everything was factually correct. Highly impressed with this. The remastering of the live audio by Giles Martin, sounds excellent despite the screaming fans. No matter what, hard core Beatles Fans will love this documentary.

Eight Days a Week The Touring Years 2-DVD set is an exceptionally produced documentary by Ron Howard of the most legendary bands in musical history The Beatles. The documentary captures the initial years in which the band performed live with members John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr from 1963-1966 and in consort with their first seven albums. Amongst the hundreds of live film footage are full performances and a few abbreviated of their hit songs that started it all in the United States “I Want to Hold Your Hand” and “She Loves You.” But what diehard and new fans will definitely see throughout the film what Beatlemania was all about and countering events that occurred during the 1960s that paralleled with when the band performed, which summed to a tumultuous time.The discs include the 100 minutes of documentary material with interviews and performances interspersed within the film. Fans that may already familiar with previous documentaries The Compleat Beatles or Beatles Anthology series, several photos and film and sound bites from the Anthology audio re-mastered recordings are also infused in this documentary; but there is also new material as well, interviews by Paul and Ringo and older ones from John and George and other members of Beatle assistant Neil Aspinall and Promoter Derek Taylor and Producer George Martin. But for the fans that are accustomed to the authenticity and preservation of material, especially with the live filmed performances watching a snippet from band play at their historic first live concert in Washington, D.C. there will be the missing of the original black and white frames replaced by very noticeable colorized tints, this may also be found on other segments from shows in England and the Ed Sullivan show – artistic expression or a blend of home movie segments that were also in the mix? Nevertheless, the live shows were the highlight within the entire documentary and to conclude the band’s concert journey there is a short loop of the rooftop performance in 1969 from the “Let it Be” film where the band plays “I Got a Feeling” and “Don’t Let Me Down”. And as added treats the second disc is a mini-documentary of the band’s musical transitions from their earliest days in Liverpool to there most experimental periods during Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, commentary by close colleagues that they band help to pen songs. And additional live performances “She Loves You,” “Twist and Shout,” “Can’t Buy Me Love,” “You Can’t Do That,” and “Help!” If that is not enough, there is a beautifully written booklet of over 40 pages of photos and commentary, imagine being 10 years old and to see all of this happen before your eyes – it was an amazing time.Words can say so much about the documentary and by far the music that is still memorable. The entire DVD set is a step back in time but also shows the timeless quality that the band produced that would be emulated but never repeated. The Beatles were one of a kind.

Overall, this is a great documentary with high quality restored Beatles concert footage. I am not sure what Whoopie Goldberg had to do with any of this, but there she is. Maybe Ron Howard could explain that.When I saw this at the theater, it included the entire Shea Stadium concert at the end, but it is not on the digital version I bought on Amazon Prime Video.

Tres bien…

Gostei da qualidade do dvd.

Excelente produto. Se tiver um único documentário sobre os Beatles, escolha este. Imagem com a melhor remasterização possível e ótimo som. Acompanha um livreto bem caprichado. Este vendido pela Amazon é o americano, por isso é área livre e com legendas em português/BR, ao contrário do Bluray inglês que só toca em aparelhos para Europa e sem legendas.

El empaque tiene un formato de "pasta dura" al estilo de libro, y bueno la película es increíbley el contenido adicional una maravilla que te permite ver en vivo y a color a los Beatles

Yes we all know the story so well, especially we leading edge baby boomers but....Howard does a great job of reminding me what a bizarre phenomenon Beatlemania truly was. It was bigger than 4 guys in an excellent band writing powerful new songs. The world was uniquely poised for something that could unite us given our war hangovers and human rights issues. These guys could not have come at a better time. Never see this thing happen again and for that reason alone this is worth your time.