Could have been better...


The documentary was generally ok but I think it lacked a 'deep insight' character that would make it far more valuable. Especially Paul and Ringo's interviews were more appropriate for teenage-magazines than for an exhaustive documentary for music lovers. Maybe some egos don't get smaller by the years... On the contrary I found very good the George and George Martin's parts.

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Autobiographies are never the 'best' histories.

Barry Miles shows indeed a bit different Beatles than the Anthology, I have always considered Anthology as very flowery insight, George Harrison is the only one who presents some more critical insight into the matter but if they had talked too directly they might have split-up again, haha!


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Yes, the 'Compleat Beatles' is much better.

The Paul interviews covering the early years are okay, but once he gets to the later stuff, he falls back on his phoney, calculating middle-age-man persona. I never understood that--he seemed so cool in 1966. What happened?

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I never understood that--he seemed so cool in 1966. What happened?

Just start looking at album covers and spin a few discs backwards - that'll shed some light on it.

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Come on, you don't mean "Paul Is Dead", do you?

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Turn me on dead man

miss 'im miss 'im miss 'im

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I've owned The Anthology series on VHS since around 1998 and I cherish it. I've watched it in it's entirety at least 4 times, that says alot about it's quality.

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It is THE best Beatles documentary, although I wouldn't have minded it if they covered the Butcher Cover scandal. They touch on it in the book version. George is quoted as saying that he was grossed out by the photo session and he was glad his face reflected that.

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The Butcher Cover scandal was strictly an American thing, and had no impact on the lives of the Beatles at all. The Paul is Dead rumour would have been more interesting.

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OH YES IT WOULD!!! That was another thing I was hoping they'd cover, but with Paul being one of the deciding votes, I wasn't sure that would happen. "Paul Is Dead" was probably the freakiest, if not the funniest, thing about the Beatles career. I do remember Paul being on SNL, being interviewed on "The Chris Farley Show", and lightly poking fun of the rumor, but not enough for my taste. It was as if he thought, "okay, this is what some of the fans want, so I'll just give them a morsel".



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Ringo Starr gets all mushy and sentimental at the end by saying, "There were some caring, loving moments between four people-a hotel room here and there. For four guys who really loved each other, it was pretty sensational". Is that deep enough for you?

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He became beloved, world-famous, international rock star "Paul McCartney", that's what happened.

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* Could have been better if:

- Paul wasn't so phony changing his explanations in mid-sentence so much.
John had... uh, we did... uhm, I think I did....

- if HEY JUDE was not interrupted with clips of talk! duh !

- if Butcher Cover was addressed.

- if George's 1963 visit to Benton, Illinois had been mentioned.

- more US tours audio / footage was covered

- if Lee Marvin film clip wasn't repeated so much.

- if George Martin, at the mixing desk, chose a better song than "Tomorrow Never Knows" to 'study' loops; John's so-called genius. NOWHERE MAN would have been a better choice. Better song, period.

- And if Paul hadn't said at the end (his campfire scene) saying, "Our music never told kids to leave their parents..."
OH YES you did.
"She's Leaving Home" bye bye......
"She" was at least 16 years old in the story of it. Old enough to drive a car, of course, but TOO YOUNG to hit the road as a runaway. And that is what Paul wrote about: LEAVE YOUR PARENTS. (beautiful song nevertheless, lol)





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- And if Paul hadn't said at the end (his campfire scene) saying, "Our music never told kids to leave their parents..."
OH YES you did.
"She's Leaving Home" bye bye......
"She" was at least 16 years old in the story of it. Old enough to drive a car, of course, but TOO YOUNG to hit the road as a runaway. And that is what Paul wrote about: LEAVE YOUR PARENTS. (beautiful song nevertheless, lol)


Paul didn't write that song telling kids to leave their parents anymore than he wrote Helter Skelter to tell Manson and his family to go on a killing spree...

He read a story in the paper about a girl that ran away from home and he wrote a song about it.


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I would have liked a little more about their personal lives. Cynthia lennon gets barely a mention, and the other wives are scarcely mentioned either, or the children. john's meeting with Yoko is discussed, but the fact that he had a wife and child at the time doesn't rate even a passing mention. I was slightly disconcerted by that.

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