THE BEATLES: EIGHT DAYS A WEEK – THE TOURING YEARS has its Home Entertainment release today and is available on digital download, Blu-ray and DVD (with special 2 disc editions in both formats). Now, my husband is a MASSIVE Beatles fan, they are one of the bands who inspired him the most to be a musician and in fact, the very first time I realised I quite fancied him was actually when I saw him singing ‘Come Together’ in a pub in Norwich which had a karaoke evening.
We were about 16 years old and I kind of knew Jonny because we had friends in common and Norwich is very small but we’d never really spoken properly. Although I thought he was good looking (he was part of the school football team that most of my friends went to so ALL the girls knew who he and his friends were) he’d not really been on my radar. I had a boyfriend and wasn’t looking at any other boys like that but something that night put Jonny well and truly in my mind… That song. That moment…
Funnily enough I didn’t even know the song ‘Come Together’ so Jonny singing it in that pub was the very fist time I ever heard it and I LOVED it. And him sining it stuck in my head… I asked my Dad to put that song on a tape (a tape!) for me and then every time I listened to it I thought of Jonny. I still do. That song takes me back to that moment ALWAYS!
It wasn’t until 5 years and a few frogs later that Jonny and I actually got together and I remember telling him about that ‘special moment’ for me. He remembered the pub, the singing and the song but… He had NO clue that I was even there… Huh… Whatever! Anyway, I’ve seen Jonny perform many, many times since then. He’s a fabulous musician and an amazing singer and he’s played some amazing gigs. He supported Kaiser Chiefs, Spaced and Supergrass to name a few and writes brilliant songs but he’d always say he’s inspired by the Beatles and when I mentioned that I’d been asked to review the new film, which is about the touring years from 1962-1966, from their performance at the Cavern Club in Liverpool to their final concert in San Francisco, he told me I HAD to accept! He couldn’t wait to see it!
The film was produced with the cooperation of the surviving band members and the spouses of John and George and contains exclusive film footage. Jonny has watched it now three times and obviously he enjoyed it. Here’s what he has to say on the matter:
‘It was so interesting to see the footage of them back stage, how they dealt with, or didn’t as the case may be, their adoring fans. I had no idea that they had stopped playing live partly because they couldn’t actually hear over the screaming girls or that they feared for their own lives. It was certainly very entertaining but for a true The Beatles fan like myself it just gave a real insight into an era and an age that I couldn’t imagine. I’ll watch it again and again’.
So, now you know… The Beatles mean a lot to me (and him) and this film is a massive hit for us. Beatles fan or not it’s super interesting and a thoroughly good watch!
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