![]() At the time this appeared to be the best approach, but in retrospect opinions may chance after hearing the uncut interviews this was after all their one change to tell their story. ![]() The final version would remove much of the story and details to include as much TV and concert footage as possible. Story VS Performance - The 1993 Director’s Cut of Anthology focused primarily on the Beatles story, using performance footage only to enhance the story. Program 1 focuses on July '40 to March '63 Wallow in these Black and White beginnings - see how the forties became the fifties became the sixties and discover how becoming the Beatles became. 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 used their cheek and confidence and talent to get their first Number One in Britain: Please, Please Me. Wonderful archive of yesterday's enemy seaports now united by primitive, derivative rock'n'roll - Hamburg and Liverpool, full of young men scuffling for position and rank, nobody with advantage except for real gifts and those the Beatles had aplenty: wit, music, energy, looks, personality. Britain under Hitler's bombs, boys not yet Beatles struggling for a place in the sun. This is the scarcely credible beginning of the Great Adventure, going back, back, back into a great war in a grey time that seems to belong to other beings in other worlds. ![]()
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