The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years (2016)

A compilation of found footage featuring music, interviews, and stories of The Beatles' 250 concerts from 1963 to 1966.

Director:

Ron Howard

Writers:

Mark Monroe, P.G. Morgan (story consultant)

Stars:

The Beatles, John Lennon, George Harrison

Won 2 Primetime Emmys. Another 3 wins & 14 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
The Beatles	...	Themselves (archive footage)
John Lennon	...	Himself (archive footage)
George Harrison	...	Himself (archive footage)
Paul McCartney	...	Himself
Ringo Starr	...	Himself
Richard Curtis	...	Himself - Writer, Director
Frank Phillips	...	Himself - BBC Radio Newsreader (voice) (archive footage)
Leonard Parkin	...	Himself - BBC Radio Newsreader (voice) (archive footage)
Carroll James	...	Himself - WWDC Disc Jockey (voice) (archive footage)
Marsha Albert	...	Herself (voice) (archive footage)
Eddie Izzard	...	Himself
Ed Sullivan	...	Himself (archive footage)
Whoopi Goldberg	...	Herself
Neil Aspinall	...	Himself - Beatles Touring Manger 1962-1970
Brian Epstein	...	Himself - Beatles Manager (archive footage)

Storyline

In the 1960s, the Beatles exploded on to the public scene, seemingly out of nowhere as the band's formative years of constant performing at home and in Hamburg, and Brian Epstein's grooming, finally paid off beyond their wildest dreams. Accompanying new interviews of the remaining Beatles, their associates and fans as well as archival interviews of the late ones, this film features footage of the heady concert years of 1963 to 66 when the band became a worldwide cultural phenomena topping them all. Furthermore, it also follows how the Fab Four began to change and grow while the excitement of Beatlemania began to sour their lives into an intolerable slog they needed to escape from to become more than what their fans wanted.

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Plot Keywords:

the beatles | beatlemania | rock band | reference to jfk assassination | reference to muhammad ali | 

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Taglines:

The band you know. The story you don't.

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Genres:

Documentary | Music

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Certificate:

Unrated

Details

Official Sites:

Official site Official site

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

17 September 2016 (USA)

Also Known As:

Eight Days a Week

Box Office

Opening Weekend USA:

$615,632, 16 September 2016, Limited Release

Gross USA:

$2,930,414, 6 January 2017

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$12,283,800, 8 January 2017

Company Credits

Production Co:

Apple Corps,Apple Corps,Diamond Docs

Technical Specs

Runtime:

106 min 206 min (2016 DELUXE DVD)

Color:

Color Black and White (archive footage) Color (digitally colored)

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

In the list of memorials in the end credits, Brian Epstein is not mentioned

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Goofs

In the closing credits, the song "Things We Said Today" is mistakenly written as "Thing We Said Today."

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Quotes

Reporter: What place do you think this story of The Beatles is going to have on Western Culture?
Paul McCartney: You must be kidding me with that question. Culture? It's not culture.
Reporter: What is it then?
Paul McCartney: A good laugh.

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Connections

Features A Hard Day's Night (1964)

User Reviews

Tomorrow never knows

Having read and seen just about everything there is about The Beatles I wasn't expecting to learn anything new, but I believe Ron Howard missed an opportunity to tell all that see this film what life was really like for these four guys during those years. If you want to show the world the craziness that Beatlemania was, then tell it all. Try to let us inside their world whilst on tour. You don't have to go into sordid details ,but let us know what life on the road was like. Who knows how long we have Paul and Ringo, so let's get all the truth out there before they're gone and people can say what they like. As a fan, I would have liked to have seen a film that is a true record of those years.