Filled with interviews from friends, relatives, colleagues and former girlfriends as well as rare film footage and original artwork by artist Klaus Voormann, this is the first fully rounded Beatles portrait to appear on DVD. This is the Beatles at their best -- and their worst!
Germany to the biggest venues that the world has to offer in a documentary that speaks with friends, family, colleagues, and lovers of John, Paul, George, and Ringo in to offer an insider's perspective on Beatlemania. From their darkest hours to their greatest achievements, no story is left untold as the personal and professional secrets of each band member are recounted in vivid detail
Bob Dylan was dating Joan Baez when he met The Beatles and introduced them to high-class marijuana in a motel outside JFK Airport the night before The Beatles flew home following a triumphant American tour in Sept. 1964.
They became close pals, but from the beginning Dylan warned Lennon to keep his hands off Baez. Lennon fancied her a lot, and she liked him because both were passionate about their opposition to the Vietnam War. Lennon was married to wife Cynthia at the time, but that didn’t stop him from playing the field.( Ivor Davis)
Lennon’s greatest fear in life was being called up to do military service in Britain. : “Elvis was forced to go into the Army — and it almost destroyed his career. If we’d gone into the military there would have been no Beatles
Model-turned-actress Peggy Lipton told me in the summer of 1964 at a Beatles party in Beverly Hills: “I’m madly in love with Paul — and I want to marry him.” McCartney, of course, married Linda Eastman — and Peggy became the wife of record mogul Quincy Jones.
Lennon liked to call me to come to his suite to play Monopoly at 2 a.m. He cheated a lot if the roll of the dice didn’t land on the property he wanted. “Gambling is evil,” Lennon told Sahara Hotel executives while posing for a picture in front of a slot machine that had been hauled into his Las Vegas hotel suite. But he wasn’t serious. He played poker for money — and lost quite a bit (Ivor Davis)