Also, their personal lives are left out entirely. Not much new insight into the birth or meaning of Beatlemania, just lots (and lots and lots) of concert and TV footage, often of them playing the same songs, sometimes obviously just lip-syncing to records. First, at least for me, much of the first half got repetitive. On the disappointment side there are a few issues. The last couple of hours go deeper than I suspected, and were quite moving. A good job is done of combining new interviews with the then 3 living Beatles, and recorded interviews with John from many sources, so his views and insights aren't missing. Thrilling because all the music has been re-mixed, re-mastered and sounds great, because there are lots of details that, even as I fan, I didn't know, because there's more insight than offered elsewhere into their breakup, and more important, into what held them together. But of all the Beatles documentary videos that are out there, this one still is the best.įor a Beatle fan (like me) this 10 hour documentary was both thrilling and just a little disappointing. If I had one complaint about this DVD set, it's that the music is recorded so much louder than the voice track, and is difficult to find the right volume level to listen to. Pepper' (broadcasted, but unreleased in video) you should get pretty much the whole picture of the Beatles. Watch this anthology with video 'The Compleat Beatles', 'Making of A Hard Days Night' and 'The making of Sgt.

This DVD set contains additional comments by Niel Aspenall, and George Martin that's never been seen elsewhere which reveals the back stories about the production of Beatles' music, their earlier days on the road etc. Pepper that much than George himself ? In this sense this anthology is very important, because all the information comes directly from the Beatles themselves. Someone had to make this mini-series, and who would be better than the Beatles themselves ? For instance, who could tell with more believability that George didn't like the album Sgt.

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