Anyone else seen this yet?
Eight Days a Week.
It showed up on Movie Central last night, on the same day it was released to theatres.
It's definitely worth a look, or it was for me, mainly for the concert footage, most of which I hadn't seen before. The stuff from the ABC in Manchester in 1963 is particularly impressive. Aside from the RSG sessions it might be the best live Beatles I've seen.
I say "might" because I've never sure how much we hear in docs like this is down to audio enhancement, and how much is an accurate representation of what was heard at the time. I've felt the same with other archival performances, such as the Dylan '66 tour. They're great now, but is this really what they really sounded like? Having attended concerts in the late 60s I'm sceptical. Ringo says in the film that they never had a PA system, nor monitors. The final US concert at Candlestick, for example, was played through the tannoy system.
That aside, it's an excellent study of how the expectations of artists and audiences changed dramatically over three or four years.
Eight Days a Week.
It showed up on Movie Central last night, on the same day it was released to theatres.
It's definitely worth a look, or it was for me, mainly for the concert footage, most of which I hadn't seen before. The stuff from the ABC in Manchester in 1963 is particularly impressive. Aside from the RSG sessions it might be the best live Beatles I've seen.
I say "might" because I've never sure how much we hear in docs like this is down to audio enhancement, and how much is an accurate representation of what was heard at the time. I've felt the same with other archival performances, such as the Dylan '66 tour. They're great now, but is this really what they really sounded like? Having attended concerts in the late 60s I'm sceptical. Ringo says in the film that they never had a PA system, nor monitors. The final US concert at Candlestick, for example, was played through the tannoy system.
That aside, it's an excellent study of how the expectations of artists and audiences changed dramatically over three or four years.
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