A Hard Days Night
Digitally remastered on TCM
Final absolute confirmation that the Beatles were the ultimate right time right place band. First. And right
If you were there its a time and place long gone where rebellion was talking smack to the manager and the stuffy Brits on a train. John did snort a Pepsi bottle with a smirk in an early cocaine reference
But you say people that weren't born love the Beatles. Well yeah, Lennon and McCartney could write and they could sing. George was above average on the guitar. And in 1963,64 it was a new sound and highly produced and done well.
The movie doesn't really hold up but the final fake Ed Sullivan show scene with three songs and the screaming girls shows you everything you need to know as to why they loom so large. It's really good.
The adult comedians of the day and the TV shows that wanted to make fun of the kids always worked yeah, yeah, yeah in there somehow. They hit She Loves You on stage and I started screaming
Its a love hate thing.
The Stones get accused these days of appropriation but at least they tried to get some funk. The Beatles white washed their music bigly. I was high so I decided that the Mop Tops were a MI6 creation to fake rebellion in a safe British way. It is impossible to explain today why parents were afraid. Their hair wasn't even that long. Lennon became radical after the band. Paul remained a suck up
Didn't really age well. 3 out of 5 because I hadn't heard the songs in years
