“Magical Mystery Tour” could arguably be considered as both The Beatles’ worst and best film.
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Tag Archives: The Beatles
The Bootleg Files: Around the Beatles
BOOTLEG FILES 885: “Around the Beatles” (1964 British television special).
LAST SEEN: On YouTube.
AMERICAN HOME VIDEO: Bits and pieces of the show turned up on home entertainment release.
REASON FOR BOOTLEG STATUS: The full show has been unavailable for years.
CHANCES OF SEEING A COMMERCIAL DVD RELEASE: Not likely.
Sixty years ago today, ABC broadcast “Around the Beatles,” an hour-long musical special that was first broadcast on Britain’s ITV on May 6, 1964. This production was notable as the rare television variety special with the Beatles as the starring attraction – for the most part, the Fab Four only showed up as guests on someone else’s small-screen music and comedy revue.
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Now and Then: the Last Beatles Song (2023)
Oliver Murray’s “Now and Then” is not only a testament to the continued unending popularity of the Beatles, but to the genius that technology is capable of. In a year where AI has officially stirred up a humongous debate among artists, “Now and Then” is a great exploration of how Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr implemented groundbreaking technology to produce one last outing with their dearly departed friend John Lennon.
Now and Then – The Last Beatles Song (2023)
The Beatles are back! Or, at least, a belated song based on a never-released John Lennon cassette demo that has been created through the wizardry of digital technology and the input of the band’s surviving members.
The Beatles: Get Back (2021) [Blu-ray/DVD]
Rewriting history comes with multiple risks, Peter Jackson’s attempt to reconfigure the sour legacy of the 1970s Beatles documentary “Let It Be” with this three-part series works at several levels and falls short at others.
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The Bootleg Files: The Beatles Forever
BOOTLEG FILES 787: “The Beatles Forever” (1977 all-star train wreck).
LAST SEEN: On YouTube.
AMERICAN HOME VIDEO: None.
REASON FOR BOOTLEG STATUS: No serious person would put this out in front of the public again.
CHANCES OF SEEING A COMMERCIAL DVD RELEASE: Unlikely.
Fuck that three-part Disney+ rehash of mountains of discarded footage from the making of “Let It Be” – the real Beatles rediscovery emerged on YouTube last week via someone going by the handle of Denton115. This beautiful individual has brought back one of the most brilliantly embarrassing television specials ever dropped on an unsuspecting world: “The Beatles Forever,” a one-hour atrocity that NBC threw on an unsuspecting America on Thanksgiving night of 1977.
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10 Of The Most Intriguing Films That Were Never Made
Film history is littered with proposed projects that seemed tantalizing in concept, but somehow never found their way before the cameras. But were these aborted efforts destined to succeed? Seriously, would Stanley Kubrick’s proposed biopic of Napoleon or Alejandro Jodorowsky’s “Dune” been instant classics? I think that some vigorous debates could be enjoyed on whether or not we should be fortunate those works never got made.