The beatles were fucking fantastic!

[JimC]

Holy council bureaucrat, Batman!

[laklak]

This is really interesting. I've always thought Ringo was a far better drummer than he's generally given credit for.

[Tero]

Lewisohn plans to finish Vol 2 (the years of US fame and touring) before he croaks

http://teamcoco.com/video/serious-jibbe ... k-lewisohn

[Tero]

[Tero]

Ron Howard documentary of Beatles touring years to come out at the same time

[Tero]

trailer for Ron Howard Sep film
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/ ... oc-w431422

[Tero]

Hollywood Bowl will be much better, but here is a home recording by someone of the very last US concert. You can hear they could barely hear each other on stage. Tempo is slow.

[Tero]

In theaters Fri

[Rum]

Sadly I don't think Eight Days a Week is coming to our local multiplex - the twats!

[Tero]

I would not be surprised to see the DVD on the Christmas market!

[DRSB]

[Tero]

Tickets for Thu, one night only, then you can find it soon on Hulu. DVDs will be out. Movie is over 2 hours so probably some complete songs. Heck, the songs are only 3 minutes. A Beatles stadium concert was under 40 minutes.

[Rum]

Turns out there is one showing here - this Thursday at 6.00 too. Will be going!

[JimC]

Surviving Beatles, as far as Rum and Tero go...

"They love you, yeah, yeah, yeah!"

[Tero]

It's good. Ron Howard movie. It's actually The Beatles story, minus Liverpool and minus studio years. But if you want to entertain folks, casual fans, this is the story. For us true fans, slightly longer bits of the live songs would be good. There is only one Hollywood Bowl song.

The other option for this material is Anthology and it is actually 50% talk. Here, the music, though in bits, carries the film along.

Shea Stadium is good too, singing is in tune. Is any of it fixed later? A wonder of sound and film of the era. How was it miked and taped? There are two mikes at each stand.