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9/10

It seemed like an impossible task to add more to the lore of the Beatles over 53 years after their first studio album “Please Please Me” was released, but director Ron Howard manages to do it.

Howard’s film focuses on the touring years of the Beatles from 1963-1966. The film talks not just about the details of the concerts, but their impact on the world as a whole.

Throughout their touring years the Beatles needed to innovate to meet their huge fanbase. The film does a good job of showing the way the Beatles changed music such as hosting the first concert at a stadium held at Shea Stadium in New York.

The film has a very fast pace to it. There is a lot of material to cover and Howard does an excellent job of fitting it all into under two hours, while still covering every topic thoroughly.

One of the best parts of the film is the restored concert footage. The Beatles concerts were infamous for having terrible sound quality because of all the screaming fans and the lack of proper concert recording technology available at the time, but the remastered footage and audio sounds superb, and the music audible. The film even features never before seen footage of their last proper concert held at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.

“Eight Days a Week” does an excellent job of showing off the first half of the Beatles’ career, a career that was so unbelievable it would not seem real if it did not happen.