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The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years
Documentary · Music · 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.
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The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years
“The band you know. The story you don't.”
2016 Documentary · Music 1h 46m
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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.
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Directed by
Ron Howard
Written by
P.G. Morgan · Mark Monroe
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
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