Ron Howard directs Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and John Lennon in this documentary recreating the excitement around The Fab Four’s live performance career.

There’s no revelations here, just glimpses of nice footage. You get a couple of lines from their tour manager, a quote from a roadie, a shot of teenage Sigourney Weaver classily not screaming along with the crowd but enjoying herself anyway, a brutal moment of disappointment for half a stadium when Ringo turns his drums 180 degrees so as not to play in the round. And there is the beautiful moment where all four vote together and decide it will be in their contract not to play segregated venues. If you want The Beatles to make you rich, you have to sell tickets to everyone. Telling though that the strongest bit of footage is the guerilla last performance on the roof of EMI buildings. Why? We hold on it for enough time to appreciate just how brilliant The Beatles were rather than feel them rush past us in the crowd.

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