Ron Howard’s sterling documentary on The Beatles gave the world new insight into the chaos of the band’s impact around the world in the early 1960s. Featuring footage from their earliest gigs to huge arenas, Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years does a fine job of giving context to the whirlwind ascension of The Beatles. It also does a good job of explaining why things were never the same again.
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The interviews with Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr are interwoven with archive footage of John Lennon and George Harrison, but where Howard’s film excels is placing us in the eye of the storm with the band during those heady four years.
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