Should you watch The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years?
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The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years
Documentary · 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 sides of The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years
- Four young men inside a screaming crowd
- A stadium show nobody can hear
- The year they decided to stop touring
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years is good for you if…
- you want the songs played live in front of a crowd.
- you like archive footage and the people who were there.
- you like the early sixties as it was filmed then.
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years is bad for you if…
- you want to know the four of them as people, this stays on the tours.
- you roll your eyes at fond tributes to what a band meant.
About: fame · friendship · youth
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