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"A Hard Day's Night" is on TCM right now! Me & Mrs Dog are watching.
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"A Hard Day's Night" is on TCM right now! Me & Mrs Dog are watching.
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All Things Must Beat. Share Anything Beatles!!
- Thread starter Rumble Thunder
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I got to see the last bit of it last night. It still strikes me how those boys had so much presence and charisma. I couldn’t keep my eyes off of them. What a great movie!.
"A Hard Day's Night" is on TCM right now! Me & Mrs Dog are watching.
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I'd seen that headline and was was too bummed to read it.
Clicked your link, but was still too bummed. 
Can't imagine any details or explanations "... to make it bet-ter". .
Yes, it really holds up well, much like their music. I always enjoy whenever I catch it playing. So many people think it's a documentary, but it actually has an Oscar nominated script! I even considered opening the text file of the script (linked in the Resources section of our Beatles Wiki page) to follow along, but decided to just enjoy it unencumbered.
I even watched the blu-ray version on a 3D TV, with 3D enabled, one time and was amazed at how well it rendered. If you get a chance, I highly recommend it!
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"A Hard Day's Night" is on TCM right now! Me & Mrs Dog are watching.
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I've had the DVD for a few years now. Fun to watch on occasion.
George: "And who's this Susan when she's at home?" Cracks me up every time!
I also have the Ed Sullivan DVD's with the 4 Beatles performances. For those who don't know, it's like a trip back in time especially if you're old enough to remember because it's exactly how the shows were aired, commercials and all. When I first viewed all 4 discs I was very surprised at how much I remembered not only of the Beatles but with some of the other acts and the commercials. It's amazing what's still stored in our memory. Things you thought were long gone, you see it after 50 years and all you can say is "OMG, I remember seeing that!!!"
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About 8 or so years ago I remember seeing a book about McCartney at my local music store. It was called "Something In The Way He Plays." I should have bought it but didn't and to this day I've never seen another copy in the stores of it.
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Sounds interesting. All I could google up is an interview with Dhani Harrison by that title. It does seem more appropriate to George, or Dhani, than Paul. Although, I remember reading somewhere that Paul did have to beg and plead with George to allow his very busy bassline on "Something" and I, for one, am SO glad George agreed! I can't imagine it being nearly as good with a simpler bassline.
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It was even funny recently watching an old "What's My Line" episode when the host and panelists made several references to the Beatles and it being hard to get to the studio because of the crowds and commotion (They broadcast on the same night opposite Ed Sullivan). They seemed bemused by the whole thing...like a passing fad. No one had any idea.
I myself remember what my family watched that evening, and I wish I could say it was the Beatles debut, but it was "The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh on The Magical World Of Disney!
It's been out for several years now, but I finally got to see Ron Howard's documentary "Eight Days A Week." As far as I know, it's only available on Hulu, but now I'm on it. This is one of the best documentaries about the Beatles I've seen. I knew it would probably be good, but this was better than I had expected. It has some footage which hadn't been seen before, etc. Very nice for any Beatles fan.
I have the book on Kindle. It is interesting. I would note that in, my opinion, the author comes off a bit of a Paul McCartney worshipper............. Kinda of like me.
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It is also available for rent or purchase from Amazon. I rented it on Amazon Prime. It is very good.
"Eight Days A Week" is an excellent documentary, with exceptional digitally enhanced video and audio! It is also available on Amazon Prime Video, DVD & Blu-Ray. The un-retouched newsreels of the time are embarassingly grainy and scratchy, but Opie did a great job of ckeaning them up! It's almost like the storyboard filming for 'A Hard Day's Night", except that a lot of it is in color. Very informative and entertaining.
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First one for me was I Want To Hold Your Hand. I was eight years old and my uncle bought the 45 and that’s when I first heard it. I was the right age for it to really make an impression on me. I was hooked on them from then on.
What Keith Richards said about George Harrison's guitar playing. Keith gets very specific here and I think he is right on target. I think George's playing sometimes gets underrated. Some people, for instance, seem to dwell on his early solos on Beatles songs which tended to be a little simple. But they were effective. And as time went on, his playing evolved. It evolved to the point, for instance, that some people even found it hard to believe that George Harrison, for instance, really played the solo on "Something." I once got into a big argument with someone about this. Well, that's George, believe it or not. Then later on you have George collaborating on John Lennon's music after the Beatles broke up. John said he thought that was George's best guitar playing ever.
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Possibly the oldest song on the radio I have specific memory of.
Not my first 45, nor my most played 45, but certainly an unrecognized (at the time) harbinger of things to come. Mom brought I Wanna Hold Your Hand home from the record store she managed in December '63. My 12 year old self had been messing 'round on guitar for a couple years and I immediately heard something different in it! Told mom I really liked it, did she have anything else by them? Next month she brought home Meet The Beatles and I dug into it deeply. By the famous February Ed Sullivan Show I could sing and play along, but I didn't want the distraction. I even shushed the rest of the family 'cause I couldn't hear them on the TV! But it was the audience noise I'd never heard before!
The rest is history. .
Article discussing Jerry Garcia's opinion of the Beatles. Also, a brief discussion of his comparison between the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.
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Hmmm, as much fun as The Beatles seemed to be having performing, they never talked like they thought their music was so great. One of my favorite lines in A Hard Day's Night is right after "I'm Happy Just to Dance with You" when Paul says, "Well, we're trying." And they referred to lots of their early work as "throwaways", "bits and pieces" stuck together, or even "rubbish". John was positively brutal in later interviews saying that in the beginning they were trying to emulate other artists, and that often "it didn't work." Perhaps Jerry saw it from the same perspective?
I wonder what Garcia thought of their later work?
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