Wednesday 16 July 2014 | Film and Video
On 16 July 2014, Apple Corps Ltd., White Horse Pictures and Imagine Entertainment announced a new authorised documentary about The Beatles' touring years β from the early days of the Cavern Club in Liverpool and Hamburg to their final concert at Candlestick Park, San Francisco in August 1966.
The film would be directed by Academy Award-winner Ron Howard and produced with the full cooperation of Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono Lennon and Olivia Harrison. It was eventually released in 2016 as Eight Days A Week: The Touring Years.
βI am excited and honored to be working with Apple and the White Horse team on this astounding story of these four young men who stormed the world in 1964. Their impact on popular culture and the human experience cannot be exaggerated.β
β Ron Howard
βAfter I saw The Beatles on Ed Sullivan, all I wanted after that was a Beatles wig. My parents said no, but then they gave me one for my 10th birthday.β
β Ron Howard
The Film
The documentary would focus on The Beatles' journey from the Cavern Club and Hamburg through to their last public concert at Candlestick Park, San Francisco in 1966. By the time The Beatles stopped touring in August 1966, they had performed 166 concerts in 15 countries and 90 cities around the world.
The documentary idea grew out of the Beatles Live Project website, which launched in November 2012 and invited fans to send previously unseen film footage and photographs of The Beatles' performances. The project's founders, One Voice One World, approached Apple Corps, who took it on. The website continued to request rare film footage, audio recordings and photographs from the public.
It was hoped the film would be on general release by the end of 2015, and was expected to include up to 20 Beatles songs as well as contributions from the surviving members.
The Production Team
| Ron Howard | Director and producer |
| Brian Grazer | Producer (Imagine Entertainment) |
| Nigel Sinclair | Producer (White Horse Pictures) |
| Scott Pascucci | Producer (Concord Music Group) |
| Michael Rosenberg | Executive producer (Imagine) |
| Guy East | Executive producer (White Horse) |
| Jeff Jones & Jonathan Clyde | Executive producers (Apple Corps) |
| Paul Crowder | Editor |
| Mark Monroe | Writer |
| Marc Ambrose | Supervising producer |
| Matthew White, Stuart Samuels, Bruce Higham | Co-producers (One Voice One World) |
| Nicholas Ferrall | Executive in charge of production (White Horse) |
Nigel Sinclair's previous credits included Martin Scorsese's George Harrison: Living in the Material World (two Emmy Awards, BAFTA nomination), No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (Grammy Award), Amazing Journey: The Story of The Who, The Last Play At Shea, 1, the Academy Award-winning Undefeated, and the Grammy Award-winning Foo Fighters: Back and Forth.
Scott Pascucci, Managing Director of Concord Music Group and former head of Warner's Rhino Entertainment, had been an executive producer on the George Harrison documentary and was associated with Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival: 2013 and Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train A Comin'.
Editor Paul Crowder had directed and edited the Grammy-nominated Amazing Journey: The Story of The Who, The Last Play at Shea and the Formula One documentary 1. Writer Mark Monroe's credits included Sound City, Chasing Ice, and the Academy Award-winning The Cove.
βThe way The Beatles burst onto the scene in Britain was an overwhelming social, cultural and musical phenomenon, but was even then eclipsed by that extraordinary explosion on the American scene and then the world. I was lucky enough to see The Beatles perform in Glasgow in 1964, shortly after their Ed Sullivan appearance. It is an honor to work on this project for The Beatles, and to be collaborating again with the extraordinary Ron Howard and Brian Grazer, and my good friend Scott Pascucci.β
β Nigel Sinclair
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Frequently Asked Questions
What Beatles documentary did Ron Howard direct?
Ron Howard directed Eight Days A Week: The Touring Years, a documentary about The Beatles' touring career from the Cavern Club to their final concert at Candlestick Park in 1966. The announcement was made on 16 July 2014 and the film was released in 2016.
When was the Ron Howard Beatles documentary announced?
The documentary was announced on 16 July 2014 by Apple Corps Ltd., White Horse Pictures and Imagine Entertainment.
Who produced the Ron Howard Beatles documentary?
The film was produced by Ron Howard, Nigel Sinclair, Scott Pascucci and Brian Grazer, with the full cooperation of Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono Lennon and Olivia Harrison.
What was the Beatles Live Project?
The Beatles Live Project was a website launched in November 2012 by One Voice One World, inviting fans to submit previously unseen film footage and photographs of The Beatles' live performances. It was the origin of the Ron Howard documentary project.
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