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THE BEATLES: EIGHT DAYS A WEEK - THE TOURING YEARS
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Monday, Sep 26, 2016 5:30 PM
Ron Howard directs this deftly edited compilation of extraordinary footage featuring music, interviews, and stories from 250 concerts performed by The Beatles between1963 to 1966.
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General Admission Adult Evening - $11.50
General Admission Seniors (60+) - $8.85
General Admission UI Student (with valid ID) - $8.41
General Admission Children (12 and younger) - $8.85

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Held Over by Popular Demand!

"Ron Howard's documentary rightly keeps coming back to the music and the band's delight in making it. Good move. It truly is a joy forever." -Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

"A triumph of deft editing and extraordinary access, this is likely to be the most important music documentary of the year." -Observer (UK)

We all know the moment. February 9th, 1964, 8:12pm EST -- after a brief commercial break, four young men from Liverpool step onto the Ed Sullivan stage, changing culture forever. Seventy-three million people watched The Beatles perform that night, the largest audience in television history. It was an event that united a nation and signaled the birth of youth culture as we know it today. But while this single performance introduced The Beatles to America, what the band did next would introduce them to the entire world, permanently transforming the music industry and forever engraining them into the fabric of popular culture... They went on tour. By the time the band quit touring in August of 1966, they had performed 166 concerts in 15 countries and 90 cities around the world. The cultural phenomenon their touring helped create, known as "Beatlemania," was something the world had never seen before and, arguably, hasn't since. It was the first time much of the world felt truly unified -- bound by aspiration and attitude, rather than divided by race, class, religion or nationality.

THE BEATLES: EIGHT DAYS A WEEK tells the story of the band's exceptional touring years--from the perspectives of the band, its world, the fans, and their world. It examines the impact of those years on each of The Beatles--the toll that touring took on their relationships and the effect it had on their musical evolution, as well as the colossal boost the tours gave to their lifestyle and fame. But while the band created the spark, it was young people around the world who created the firestorm. The film also explores the incomparable electricity between performer and audience that turned the music into a movement--a common experience into something sublime.



Series Info
Series:New Release Films
Film Info
Rating:Not Rated
Runtime:137 mins.
Director:Ron Howard
Year Released:2016
Production Country:UK, USA
Language:English