BEATLES, ANTHOLOGY. 11 ore, sottotitoli in italiano. 5 DVD
“ You couldn't get a cup of sugar, never mind a rock'n'roll record.”
George Harrison
July '40 to March '63
The BEATLES ANTHOLOGY
This is the scarcely credible beginning of the Great Adventure, going back, back, back into a gteat war in a grey time rhar seems ro belong ro orher beings in orher worlds. Britain under Hitler's bombs, boys nor yer Beatles struggling for a pIace in rhe suno Wonderful archive of yesrerday's enemy seaporrs now united by primi rive, derivarive rock'n'roll - Hamburg and Liverpool, full of young men scuffling for posirion and rank, nobody with advantage excepr for real gifts and rhose the Beatles had aplenty: wit, music, energy, looks, personality. The good Lord sent them a manager, Brian Epstein, and a producer, George Martin, and so we see how John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr influenced by the power of American r'n'r and r & b - there is archive of this in abundance - used their cheek and confidence and talent to get their first Number One in Britain: Please, Please Me. Wallow in these black and white beginnings - see how the forties became the fifties became the sixties and discover how becoming the Beatles became. These were good days. The earth is moving fast beneath their speeding boots. Millions of saloon bar prophets who couldn't tell rhem apart had to 'hand it to them': "They've got something! From Liverpool, I hear - of al/ places." From Liverpool uber al/es! They leave their Cavern Club in this episode and within months they take the ascendancy in rhe British pop world, and starr to live the life of Riley in London. They play rhe Palladium, the Royal Albert Hall, The Royal Variety Show, sing Moonlight Bay with Morecambe and Wise, give a spare hit to the Rolling Stones, play hundreds of concerts in Britain, nip over to Sweden, invent Beatlemania, record I Want To Hold Your Hand (their 4th British number one in a year) and, as if in a dream – while they're conquering Paris - the record goes to Number One in America rhree weeks before the Ed SuJlivan Show in New York. If there had been no Beatles, no-one would have had the imagination to invent such a story. Priceless footage in this episode, never seen before.
“George and I shared an apartment in Green Street, Park Lane... Wow! £45 a week. A fortune. “
Ringo Starr
March '63 to February '64
The BEATLES ANTHOLOGY
The earth is moving fast beneath their speeding boots. Millions of saloon bar prophets who couldn't tell rhem apart had to 'hand it to them': "They've got something! From Liverpool, I hear - of al/ places." From Liverpool uber al/es! They leave their Cavern Club in this episode and within months they take the ascendancy in rhe British pop world, and starr to live the life of Riley in London. They play rhe Palladium, the Royal Albert Hall, The Royal Variety Show, sing Moonlight Bay with Morecambe and Wise, give a spare hit to the Rolling Stones, play hundreds of concerts in Britain, nip over to Sweden, invent Beatlemania, record I Want To Hold Your Hand (their 4th British number one in a year) and, as if in a dream – while they're conquering Paris - the record goes to Number One in America rhree weeks before the Ed SuJlivan Show in New York. If there had been no Beatles, no-one would have had the imagination to invent such a story. Priceless footage in this episode, never seen before.
EPISODE 1
1. LIVERPOOL: THE CHILDHOOD YEARS
2. DISCOVERING ROCK & ROLL
3. JOHN, PAUL & GEORGE - THE BEGINNING OF THE BEATlES
4. FIRSTRECORDINGS 1958 - 1960
5. STUART SUTCLIFFE
6. EARLY TOURS
7. PETE BEST
8. HAMBURG
9. GROWING PAINS
10. STUART SUTCLIFFE LEAVES
11. THE CAVERN
12. DECCA SESSIONS
13. GEORGE MARTIN
14. RINGO ARRIVES
15. "LOVE ME DO"
16. "PLEASE PLEASE ME" - "WE'RE NO. I"
EPISODE 2
1. RACING UP THE LADDER
2. TOURING BRITAIN - 1963
3. LONDON - 1963
4. EARLYTELEVISION APPEARANCES
5. VOICE CLIPS FROM ABBEY ROAD STUDIOS
6. REFlECTIONS ON SUDDEN FAME
7. BEATLEMANIA
8. ROYAL VARIETY PERFORMANCE
9. SECOND ALBUM: "WITH THE BEATLES"
1O. OLYMPIA THEATRE, PARIS- 1964
11. "I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND" REACHES NO.1 IN THE US .
“Miami! That was just like paradise because we'd never been anywhere with palm trees.”
Paul McCartney
February '64 to July '64
ANTHOLOGY
This was still a time of wonderment on both sides of the
equation. The world couldn't believe this magnificent fourheaded
creation could continue to be so delightfully
entertaining and impudent and the creature couldn't believe
the world could be so nice. Wherever they went now, first
America, then Europe, the Far East and Australasia, and back
to Liverpool for the special 'local' premiere of A Hard Day's
Night, they brought Beatlemania with them. They couldn't
help it; it was a form of real love. George would say many years
later that the world used them as an excuse to go mad and then
blamed it on the Beatles, but there is a parallel theory that it
was time for the world to go that sort of mad - get down a bit,
loosen up, and, like Uncle John in Long Tall Sally, have some
fun tonight. The crowd scenes in this segment are awesome
and, in retrospect awful. How did no-one get killed? The
bloom of success was still fresh in the story herein.
“She [The Queen] seemed pleasant enough, you know; made us relax.
John Lennon
August '64 to August '65
ANTHOLOGY
This was still a time of wonderment on both sides of the
equation. The world couldn't believe this magnificent fourheaded
creation could continue to be so delightfully
entertaining and impudent and the creature couldn't believe
the world could be so nice. Wherever they went now, first
America, then Europe, the Far East and Australasia, and back
to Liverpool for the special 'local' premiere of A Hard Day's
Night, they brought Beatlemania with them. They couldn't
help it; it was a form of real love. George would say many years
later that the world used them as an excuse to go mad and then
blamed it on the Beatles, but there is a parallel theory that it
was time for the world to go that sort of mad - get down a bit,
loosen up, and, like Uncle John in Long Tall Sally, have some
fun tonight. The crowd scenes in this segment are awesome
and, in retrospect awful. How did no-one get killed? The
bloom of success was still fresh in the story herein.
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. The Beatles sweep through the great US cities,
drawing tens of thousands to airports for the merest glimpse.
They play for no more than half an hour per concert. A Hard
Day's Night has guaranteed them star status in the cinema and
they laughed their way through Help! in Technicolor. Paul
dreams that he has written Yesterday - and has. They are the
first group to play a baseball stadium, Shea in New York,
breaking records for crowd fever, numbers and good cheer. Oh,
and they go to Buckingham Palace to receive medals from the
Queen and, by now, more or less accept it as their due. They
are, however, as happy and polite as can be. Life is now almost
all fun, albeit with a strand of stress now slicing through it.
ANTHOLOGY 3&4
EPISODE 3
1. ARRIVALIN THE U.S. - FEBRUARY 1964
2. FIRST APPEARANCE ON THE ED SUUlVAN SHOW
3. THE COLISEUM CONCERT - WASHINGTON, D.C.
4. RECEPTION AT THE BRITISHEMBASSY
S. MIAMI BEACH
6. SECOND APPEARANCE ON THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW
7. RETURNTO ENGLAND
8. "THEY'RE GOING TO PUT US IN THE MOVIES!"
9. FILMING "A HARD DAY'S NIGHT"
10. "IN HIS OWN WRITE"
11. WORLD TOUR 1964
12. WORLD PREMIEREOF "A HARD DAY'S NIGHT"
13. LIVERPOOLHOMECOMING
EPISODE 4
1. FIRST MAJOR U.S TOUR - SUMMER, 1964
2. MEETING BOB DYLAN
3. THE PRESSURESOF TOURING
4. FEEDBACK - "I FEELFINE"
S. RECORDING "BEATlES FOR SALE"
6. FIlMING "HELP!"
7. "YESTERDAY"
8. NME POLL WINNERS' CONCERT - APRIL 1 1, 1965
9. GEORGE TALKS ABOUT HIS SONGS
10. "TICKET TO RIDE"
11. THE BEATlES RECEIVE THE MBE FROM THE QUEEN
August '65 to July '66
ANTHOLOGY
"We were all expanding in all areas in our life; opening up to a lot of different attitudes"
Ringo Starr
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 words, music, sights and
sounds. This is substantially the autumn and winter of 1965
and the continuation of their rule as Lords of the Earth into
1966, absorbing Rubber Soul and Revolver. They meet Elvis
and hang out with him. The four are never more musical,
confident, fluent or assured than in this episode, which is my
favourite because everything has come together in full colour,
with the keys to all kingdoms theirs for the asking. Hints of a
bad day in Manila bring us up short and ir seems thar things
are about to change ... Exciting? Or ominous? Maybe both.
July '66 to June '67
ANTHOLOGY
"should have said television is more popular than Jesus; then I might have got away with it."
John lennon
The glory of this story is that if you don't know it, the surprises
are rruly astonishing and if you do, the delight is in the detail
and this episode contains so many astonishing advances and
reverses, setbacks and recoveries and in such quick-time that in
fiction many of them would have been edited out. Our heroes
'snub' Mrs Marcos of Manila and a narion's fury turns on them
after three years of world-at-their-feet. Then it is thought John
suggested in an interview that they are more important than
Jesus. He explains himself, but too late to prevent Third Reichstyle
public burnings of their work. They live this down but
retire from touring and go into the studio which brings an
amazed world the mighty whirligig of Sgt Pepper, Penny Lane
and Strawberry Fields here on the screen in surreal and
glorious colour. They sing Baby You're a Rich Man, and they
all are, but they don't buy an island in Greece. That is about
the only crazy thing that doesn't happen in this episode.
5&6
EPISODE 5
1. SHEA STADIUM CONCERT - AUGUST 15, 1965
2. MEETING ELVIS PRESLEY
3. MORE TOUR PRESSURE
4. NEW MUSICAL DIRECTIONS· "RUBBER SOUL" AND "REVOLVER"
5. "YELLOW SUBMARINE"
6. "TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS"
7. TECHNICAL LIMITATIONS IN THE STUDIO
8. LSD
9. "DAY TRIPPER"
10. "WE CAN WORK IT OUT"
11. TAPED TV PROMOTIONAL FILMS
12. "PAPERBACK WRITER"
13. "RAIN"
14. WORLD TOUR 1966
EPISODE 6
1. TROUBLE IN THE PHILIPPINES
2. "ELEANOR RIGBY"
3. TOURING TAKES ITS TOLL
4. THE LASTCONCERT - SAN FRANCISCO, AUGUST 19, 1966
5. INDIVIDUAL DIRECTIONS
6. THE MAKING OF "STRAWBERRY FiElDS FOREVER"
7. "PENNY LANE"
8. "SGT. PEPPER'S"
9. "A DAY IN THE LIFE"
1O. REACTION TO "SGT. PEPPER'S"
11. DRUGS REFLECT THE TIMES
12. "BABY YOU'RE A RICH MAN"
"We got backstage to see Maharishi and I said to him: 'I Got any mantras?”
George Harrison
June '67 to July '68
ANTHOLOGY ANTHOLOGY
It is the summer of Love, and those whom Timothy Leary
has called the "avatars" sing All You Need is Love on black
and white television on the first world satellite television
programme. It is here in full colour and precedes the
disillusionment of George with Haight Ashbury (San Francisco's
hippieville), and the slamming of another door with the death
of Brian Epstein, who was rarely alone but often lonely. The
same weekend, as all who know the story know, the four are
with Maharishi Mahesh YOgl who is initiating them in
Transcendental Meditation. Magical Mystery Tour takes their
mind off things and becomes a great TV vehicle for more
wonderful songs even if critics don't like it. Apple Corps, their
new company, is formed to "mix business with pleasure".
Those Were the Days, sings Mary Hopkin, and they were -
those days.
"I'm really glad that most of our songs were about love, peace and understanding."
Paul McCartney
July '68 to The End
All things must pass, as the man said and in this final episode,
things are passing strange and fairly fast. The music holds our
till the end (as good as gold, as good as ever. .. better even,
some might say, bearing in mind the quality of Abbey Road,
which ends this stunning story) and the Beatles, having worked
through the White album, Let It Be, Hey Jude and Rellolution,
two weddings, two busts and the rooftop concert equal Gilbert
and Sullivan in the level of acrimony and the heightened
quality of the work that was done through it and despite it all.
The Beatles have survived their success and survived their era
to remain modern, timeless and supreme against all comers.
Paul, George and Ringo can still sit around a table and relive
the twentieth century's greatest romance. This final tape
evades nothing and reveals the rents and splits that ended their
60's life together but it cannot avoid encouraging all of us to
believe in magic. For magic it is, and magic it always was:
alchemy in accessible, human form. As [ said, eight wondrous
tapes ago, it is scarcely credible. Yet here have been ten hours
of unchallengeable evidence.
ANTHOLOGY 7&8
EPISODE 7
1. SATELLITEBROADCAST OF "ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE"
2. MEETING THE MAHARISHI
3. BRIAN EPSTEIN'S DEATH
4. "MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR"
5. "I AM THE WALRUS"
6. "HELLO GOODBYE"
7. THE APPLE BOUTIQUE
8. RISHIKESH, INDIA
9. APPLERECORDS
10. "LADY MADONNA"
11. "YELLOW SUBMARINE"
12. JOHN MEETS YOKO ONO
EPISODE 8
1. THE "WHITE" ALBUM
2. "REVOLUTION"
3. THE APPLE BOUTIQUE ClOSES
4. "HEY JUDE"
5. RECORDING AT TWICKENHAM STUDIOS
6. BILLYPRESTON SITS IN
7. "THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD"
8. THE ROOFTOP CONCERT JANUARY 30, 1969
9. "LET IT BE"
10. PAULMARRIES LINDA, JOHN MARRIES YOKO
11. "THE BALLAD OF JOHN AND YOKO"
12. COMMENTS ON THE BREAK-UP OF THE BAND
13. "ABBEY ROAD"
14. "FREE AS A BIRD"
ANTHOLOGY SPECIAL FEATURES
RECOLLECTIONS • JUNE 1994
Paul, George and Ringo spend a happy summer's day togetherj
singing, playing and warmly remembering early days of room
shoring, haircuts, Beatleboots, first cars and meeting Elvis. Songs
they perform are Baby Whot You Wont Me To Do, Raunchy, Thinking
Of Linkin9, Blue Moon Of Kentucky and Ain't She Sweet.
COMPILING THE ANTHOLOGY ALBUMS
Paul, George, Ringo and George Martin detail the process of how
they chose the tracks for Volumes 1, 2 and 3 - and George Martin
ploys bock the lope of the seminal first-take of A Day In The life.
BACK AT ABBEY ROAD· MAY 1995
Returning to Studio 2, Paul, George, Ringo and George Martin
reflect on recording Golden Slumbers, J'm Only Sleeping and
Tomorrow Never Knows at Abbey Road studios in the Sixties and
some of the inventive techniques used in creating these recordings.
RECORDING "FREE AS A BIRD" AND "REAL LOVE"
Paul, George, Ringo and Jeff Lynne reveal how they were able
to produce the two new Beatles tracks from John's original demos
provided by Yoko. This section includes intimate footoge filmed
in the studio during the recording of the tracks.
PRODUCTION TEAM
Neil Aspinall, Derek Taylor, Geoff Wonfor, Chips Chipperfield and
other key members of the Anthology production team explain the
process of how The Beatles Anthology series was created.
MAKING THE "FREE AS A BIRD" VIDEO
An intriguing insight into how the Grammy award winning video
for Free as a Bird was made. Director Joe Pytka explains how he
and Apple developed the concept and discusses the innovative
techniques that were used in the production.
"REAL LOVE" VIDEO
The video that was nat featured in the series, now remixed
in 5.1 Surround Sound.
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Ean: 0724349296992
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Supporto: Dvd
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Numero dischi: 5
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Produttore: Emi Music
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Genere: Musica
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Data uscita: 28/03/2003
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Attori: The Beatles
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Contenuti extra: scene inedite in lingua originale, dietro le quinte (making of)
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Colori: Colori
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Anno di produzione: 1996
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Area: Area 2 (Europa/Giappone)
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Durata: 720'
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Sottotitoli: Francese, Inglese, Italiano, Portoghese, Spagnolo
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Formato Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS 5.1, PCM
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Sistema: PAL
Italiano
English
