5/23/2023 0 Comments The beatles anthology filmThe strains of Love Me Do fill the air.Ġ0:04 - The story begins with the birth of Ringo in 1940. Here’s my minute-by-minute diary:Ġ0:01 - Armed with a giant mug of coffee, I push play on Disc 1. But with more than 11 hours of footage on five DVDs - including five hours of stuff that wasn’t shown on TV back in 1995, along with tons of unedited archival footage (very cool), plenty of artsy montages (not always cool) and even a mid-’90s jam by the surviving Beatles (sorta cool) - this definitive Beatlography is as close as anyone could get to a day in the life of John, Paul, George and Ringo. Or can it? To find out, I decided to watch the exhaustive new Beatles Anthology DVD in one sitting. In these days of decade-long gaps between albums - Axl Rose, come on down! - that sort of fast-forward existence just can’t be fully appreciated. Pepper, The Beatles’ long and winding road was marked by incredible milestones.Įven more incredible, perhaps, is how short that road really was - barely six years separate the band’s breakthrough and breakup. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):įrom Sullivan to Shea to Sgt. This came out in 2003 – or at least that’s when I got it.
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