On Sunday July 20th Deep Groove Records will present "A Hard Day’s Night" at the Colonial Theatre at 2pm. The event will be hosted by Andre Gardner of WMGK's "Breakfast with the Beatles".
Although many people think of their first appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show” as being America’s introduction to that “Fab Four,” The Beatles, it was really through this inventive, funny, almost documentary-style film that we truly got to know and enjoy those ground-breaking characters who led the musical “British Invasion” of the 1960s. Taking the simple premise of following the group through a two-day tour at the height of their early popularity (screaming, fainting, pre-teen audiences and all), Director Richard Lester created a frenzied, witty showcase for their talents and personalities.
Scott's Film Watch writes:
"Pop music sensations The Beatles are busy young lads. On one “typical” day, they spend their time charming some fans with their playful puns, avoiding stodgy drags with impish impassivity, or simply driving the teenyboppers wild with their monstrously popular tunes. They bounce from trains to limos to concert halls to night clubs, bringing their playfully subversive charm with them.
Accompanied by Paul McCarthy's rakish granddad and the band's managers, the Fab Four break into song several times, be it in a train car, on the street or in its presumed proper place, a concert hall. After a series of misunderstandings nearly lose their drummer, Ringo Starr, to arrest by the local police, the four arrive at that evening's gig just in time play their set, sooth the panicked stage manager, and send the adolescent girls into absolute rapture.
After all of the screaming, cheering and hoipaloi die down, John, Paul, George and Ringo run off with their managers to board a helicopter and fly away, presumably to the next day's gig and yet another bout of non-stop insanity and hijinx."
For Scott's complete review of Film # 59 of TIME's Top 100 of all time, go HERE.
Although many people think of their first appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show” as being America’s introduction to that “Fab Four,” The Beatles, it was really through this inventive, funny, almost documentary-style film that we truly got to know and enjoy those ground-breaking characters who led the musical “British Invasion” of the 1960s. Taking the simple premise of following the group through a two-day tour at the height of their early popularity (screaming, fainting, pre-teen audiences and all), Director Richard Lester created a frenzied, witty showcase for their talents and personalities.
Scott's Film Watch writes:
"Pop music sensations The Beatles are busy young lads. On one “typical” day, they spend their time charming some fans with their playful puns, avoiding stodgy drags with impish impassivity, or simply driving the teenyboppers wild with their monstrously popular tunes. They bounce from trains to limos to concert halls to night clubs, bringing their playfully subversive charm with them.
Accompanied by Paul McCarthy's rakish granddad and the band's managers, the Fab Four break into song several times, be it in a train car, on the street or in its presumed proper place, a concert hall. After a series of misunderstandings nearly lose their drummer, Ringo Starr, to arrest by the local police, the four arrive at that evening's gig just in time play their set, sooth the panicked stage manager, and send the adolescent girls into absolute rapture.
After all of the screaming, cheering and hoipaloi die down, John, Paul, George and Ringo run off with their managers to board a helicopter and fly away, presumably to the next day's gig and yet another bout of non-stop insanity and hijinx."
For Scott's complete review of Film # 59 of TIME's Top 100 of all time, go HERE.
