![]() ![]() ![]() One thing that comes through in the documentary is the group’s ambivalence about Beatlemania. And as they approach their mid-50s, the time seemed right to put their memories on tape before they grew too murky or too encrusted in myth. ![]() But their climb from obscurity in Liverpool to global fame was a matter of single-minded slogging. Now fixtures in our culture, they seemed to have leaped fully formed into the limelight. They eclipse even Elvis Presley as the subject of books, documentaries and critical studies, not only because their work represents a creative peak in the history of popular music but also because they influenced the attitudes of a generation. The Beatles, after all, have been the most thoroughly dissected and analyzed musicians of the 20th century. “They used us as an excuse to go mad, the world did, and then blamed it on us,” George Harrison observes a couple of hours into “The Beatles Anthology,” the television documentary to which Harrison, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr have been contributing reminiscences for the last four years.īack together for the project - with John Lennon represented by excerpts from radio and television interviews he gave before he was murdered in 1980 - their idea was to tell the Beatles’ story in their own words. ![]()
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