excellent

Did you also see the Shea Stadium film? I had never seen it before. The crowd was off the scale - a lot of those girls seemed completely distraught. "Mass hysteria" pretty much sums it up.

I have been to a lot of shows over the years but I never experienced anything like that. Maybe there never was anything quite like that. Elvis at his peak might have provoked a similar reaction but then, he never played to a crowd of 55,000 people.

FIVE STARS. The best. Loved every minute including the added Shea Stadium concert. Ron Howard is a genius. Our theatre was sold out. Too bad it's leaving the theatres and headed to HULU.

I saw it last night and enjoyed it, as well as the 30 minute Shea Stadium concert which I had heard about but never seen in full before. The comments and interview footage is mostly new to me. Both are worth seeing. My favorite moment was Sigourney Weaver sharing her memory of seeing the Boys in concert.


I was only about eight and nine years old when Beatlemania was sweeping America. I remember listening to the 45 rpm single of Please, Please Me/I Wanna Hold Your Hand on a phonograph one sunny day in my parents' kitchen. I'm not sure, but I think we watched The Beatles appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show. All my other memories come from hearing The Beatles' catchy, memorable songs on top 40 radio from the speaker of a transistor radio in Chicago, Illinois, and later my older Brothers playing Beatles long-playing records full volume in their bedroom down the hall. The only album of theirs I ever personally bought was the Number Ones album on CD, many years later.

I will have to look up documentaries like Anthology and Complete Beatles, which a poster recommended.

I agree completely.

Not a die-hard Beatles fan like others might claim. I like The Beatles, among many music groups, and still enjoy listening to their music, I was only between 1-7 years old during the "Beatlemania" period, but I do recall listening when my brother played his albums, and I purchased later copies of their albums as a teenager and saw the movies when they ran on TV ("Help!", "Hard Day's Night", "Yellow Submarine"). I also recall the morning I was getting ready for school watching "Rocketship 7" (here in Buffalo,NY) and the host Dave Thomas announcing the breakup of The Beatles. And I saw "Beatlemania" (the musical) when it had its run here in Buffalo at Shea's Theater c. 1978/79 or so.


This film was excellent!! Besides giving a nice rundown of how The Beatles were "discovered", how their popularity spread throughout the world, how they developed and recorded their music, etc, etc. I especially enjoyed the more intimate information on the guys themselves. Some of it was already known but it was nice to see it again along with other info that I did not know about (for e.g. the non-segregated audience performance clause), really shows you that besides being wonderful talented musicians they were really decent human beings. REAL MUSICIANS - they all wrote songs, they could all play instruments and sing - not like the circus performers they have today. They had class, not that many of the "adults" of the period could see it.

"Why do you think they are screaming?"
"I don't know but if we did we would form another group and be managers!" (John paraphrased)

These guys also had a great sense of humor.

It was very meh. I've seen all of this before. It's mostly re-packaged footage that we've already seen. It was wholly unnecessary.