The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years

Ron Howard
2016-09-15

The band you know. The story you don't.
7.6
106 min

The Beatles stormed through Europe's music scene in 1963, and, in 1964, they conquered America. Their groundbreaking world tours changed global youth culture forever and, arguably, invented mass entertainment as we know it today. All the while, the group were composing and recording a series of extraordinarily successful singles and albums. However the relentless pressure of such unprecedented fame, that in 1966 became uncontrollable turmoil, led to the decision to stop touring. In the ensuing years The Beatles were then free to focus on a series of albums that changed the face of recorded music.

Cast

Name Character Team
Paul McCartney Self Unowned
Ringo Starr Self Unowned
John Lennon Self (archive footage) Unowned
George Harrison Self (archive footage) Unowned
Larry Kane Self Unowned
Whoopi Goldberg Self Calvin and Nobbs
Elvis Costello Self Unowned
Eddie Izzard Herself Unowned
Sigourney Weaver Self Zac E. Chan
Richard Lester Self Unowned
Kitty Oliver Self Unowned
Howard Goodall Self Unowned
Jon Savage Self Unowned
Debbie Gendler Self Unowned
Richard Curtis Self Unowned
Malcolm Gladwell Self Unowned
George Martin Self (archive footage) Unowned
Neil Aspinall Self (archive footage) Unowned