After a wildly successful independent theatrical run, Ron Howard’s documentary The Beatles: Eight Days a Week—The Touring Years comes to DVD. And just in time for the holiday shopping season, no less. The two-disc collector’s edition is a must-have for Beatles aficionados and 60s music fans alike. But before we talk about all the special […]
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Everything Fab Four: Ladies and Gentlemen, The Pictorial Splendor of John, Paul, George and Ringo!
The Beatles are no strangers to artistic interpretation. Even during their heyday, the group members were rendered as fun-loving cartoon characters getting into one playful adventure after another. By the time of their disbandment, the Fab Four’s lyrics were interpreted as individual works of art in Alan Aldridge’s lavish The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics series. In […]
Everything Fab Four: Interrogating “The Lennon Report”
There is no darker day on the Beatles’ calendar than Monday, December 8th, 1980. It seemed to begin with a flourish as John Lennon recounted his optimism for the future in what turned out to be his last interview, only to end hours later as shockwaves of horror made their way across the globe. Directed […]
50 Years of Beatles: To “Get Back,” or Not to “Get Back” — That Was the Question
On Saturday, October 7, 1967, promoter Sid Bernstein offered the Beatles the unprecedented sum of $1 million to perform in concert. If the band mates had accepted his proposal, the one-time show would have been their first appearance since abandoning life on the road after their August 29, 1966, swan song at San Francisco’s Candlestick […]
50 Years of Beatles: “Knocking Off the Edges” with Ron Howard’s The Beatles: Eight Days a Week—The Touring Years
During the week of September 23rd, 1960, the Beatles were caught up in the sound and fury of their first residency in Hamburg, West Germany. By nearly every account, their years on the Reeperbahn were a vital ingredient in their legendary story, not to mention the gritty site of their shift from journeymen players into […]