You know the drill with film of the Beatles during their heyday: newsreel footage. Crowds. Thrumming guitars. Screaming. Aiming to offer all of that, and a lot more, Ron Howard has put together a new documentary about the Fab Four's early days on the road called The Beatles: Eight Days A week – The Touring Years.
Rather than just rubber stamp (or Rubber Soul?) someone else's work, here Howard acts as director and producer, digging up rare archive footage of John, Paul, George and Ringo in the years between getting their start in Liverpool and their last concert at Candlestick Park in San Francisco in 1966. It'll explore how the band came together to become this extraordinary phenomenon, and look at their inner workings – how they made decisions, created their music and built their collective career together.
With McCartney and Starr as interviewees, archive footage of the others and, we're promised, input from other key figures, Eight Days A Week will have its world premiere in the UK on September 15.