Ron Howard’s Beatles Concert Documentary Trailer And Release Date Drop
"This is the greatest pheonomon of the century so far," opens the new trailer for the upcomign Beatles concert documentaryThe Beatles: Eight Days a Week — The Touring Years. The Beatles are known as a studio phenomenon, bringing new chords, time signatures and sonic landscapes to rock and roll and creating rock music. But the band started off as a wild, leather-clad, north of England stage act. Cursing and smoking on stage when John Lennon wasn’t peeing on nuns’ heads or wearing toilet seats and making fun of spastics. Then Brian Epstein put them in collarless Pierre Cardin suits and unleashed them on the unwitting south.
Ron Howard’s documentary on The Beatles concert years, The Beatles: Eight Days a Week — The Touring Years film will debut Sept. 17 on Hulu. The documentary will hit select U.S. theaters on Sept. 16.
There have been several Beatles documentaries in the past, but Academy Award-winning director Howard promises extensive coverage. For those of us who have been collecting bootlegs for all these years, we can only hope he uncovers something we haven’t seen. White Horse Pictures and Apple Corps’ The Beatles: Eight Days a Week — The Touring Years covers the band’s early days playing the Cavern Club in 1962, all the way through to their final (official) concert at San Francisco’s Candlestick Park in August 1966. The film was made with the full cooperation of surviving Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, as well as John Lennon’s widow, Yoko Ono Lennon, and George Harrison’s widow, Olivia Harrison.
By: Tony Sokol
Source: Den of Geek
