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The Beatles Anthology (Disc 1 of 5) (1995)
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John Lennon,
Paul McCartney,
George Harrison,
Ringo Starr,
Neil Aspinall
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| Director:
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Geoff Wonfor
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Documentary,
Music
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EMI Films
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English,Spanish,French,Italian,German,Portuguese
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Length: |
674 mins
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Episode 1 & 2
This is the scarcely credible beginning of the Great Adventure, going back, back, back into a great war in a gray time that seems to belong to other beings in other worlds. Britain under Hitler's bomb, boys not yet Beatles struggling for a place in the sun.
The earth is moving fast beneath their speeding boots. Millions of saloon bar prophets who couldn't tell them apart had to "hand it to them": "They've got something! From Liverpool I hear-of all places."
-Derek Taylor
Episode 3 & 4
This was still a time of wonderment on both sides of the equation. The world couldn't believe this magnificent four-headed creation could come to be so delightfully entertaining and impudent and the creature couldn't believe the world could be so nice.
Success, well earned, in the struggles for recognition, is now assumed as a natural state. All the records are number one, both singles and albums and educated America is now in thrall to them.
-Derek Taylor
Episode 5 & 6
There is a real joy within this video...yet now and again we hear the bell of a cash register ringing up some early charges in the price of fame. Within lie 'miles' of archive, of performance and off-duty fun, either unseen or forgotten and certainly never before assembled in such a feast of wor | | |
