The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years

The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years

106 mins | Documentary | Sept. 15, 2016

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.

The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years

106 mins | Documentary | Sept. 15, 2016

The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years
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.
IMDb rating 7.8
Producers Imagine Entertainment, Apple Corps
Original title The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years
Directors Ron Howard
Writers P.G. Morgan, Mark Monroe

Cast

Paul McCartney

as Self

Ringo Starr

as Self

John Lennon

as Self (archive footage)

George Harrison

as Self (archive footage)

Larry Kane

as Self

Whoopi Goldberg

as Self

Elvis Costello

as Self

Eddie Izzard

as Herself

Richard Lester

as Self

Kitty Oliver

as Self

Howard Goodall

as Self

Jon Savage

as Self

Debbie Gendler

as Self

Richard Curtis

as Self

George Martin

as Self (archive footage)

Neil Aspinall

as Self (archive footage)