Great show! I listened to all of your podcasts and I would love to suggest a show that no one has covered yet, which was the release and impact of the Beatles coming to the Compact Disc format in 1987. It’s wild how this hasn’t been a topic anywhere, but I know it was a huge deal back in the day. The music stores, the news stations, people lining up to get these CDs. And why the first 4 albums were released in mono. It would be an interesting historical look back. Was it Beatlemania 2.0 or was that with the Anthology in 1995? IDK. Anyway thank you for the Beatle discussions.

Great content

Just finished the book. I think definitely McCartney "s golden period. Excellent in depth information.

Thank you 🙏 so much for this wonderful interview. ❤

Speaking of what you got into around 25 minutes in…YES, the Lennon 1970 RS interview and its aftermath skews so many views on McCartney in the 70’s and to this day I still see folks quoting it as if its the bible on the subject! It’s ridiculous, even reading it as a 16 year old when that interview came out I knew Lennon was spewing a combination of resentment and wildly exaggerated hyperbole…very glib statements that were obvious nonsense interspersed with some interesting info on the Beatles. We know of course he refuted or contradicted a lot of the statements soon after but folks seem intent on making it the GOSPEL OF JOHN!

Yes, wonderful inerview!💙

enjoyed the book tremendously - great research and outstanding content - the only issue with the book is that the writing was rushed and they missed several things that are essential to the story - first - they missed documenting the call that John made to Paul upon the death of his father jim - later - this resulted in a call that paul made to john upon the death of freddy lennon in early April 1976 - which set up the April 24th meeting - this is common knowledge and part of Chip madingers book - they also missed the xmas call that Paul and John had in late 1979 - all in all - its a good book but those significant issues needs to be fixed for future revisions -

Did you guys do a video reviewing these albums? Sound quality etc…

Great interview!

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This made me sad; it was an unnecessarily ost opportunity, sacrificed at the altar of Apple's marketing department. Most of the talking heads were not additive to the story and '64 was such a momentous year for the band that a wider lens encompassing that whole year (for which there is more than adequate archival material) would have made a much more satisfying document. I'm amazed that this got endorsed by Paul, Ringo, Sean and Olivia.

Where was the archive interviews with Neil Aspinall and Cynthia Lennon. It does make me wonder if next year there is going to be a cleaned up Anthology with extended versions of all eight episodes.

Scorsese made a bad documentary because he is not a real Beatle fan. He is a fan of four seasons and Fabian and Frankie valli. Save the documentary for Connie Francis. Garbage

Paul was on Ellen's show in 2005 and I think the full show is on KZbin at least part of it.

The main thrust of this doc was how people reacted to the Beatles coming in 1964. The problem with the whole thing was how it was structured and the way they got material in the present, and just filling time.

Great review. It was so awful and so horrid. You guys really did a fantastic job on lazy narrative bad film making and horrid talking heads. Love to see you telling Apple that they are absolutely garbage and the documentary is absolute horse shit. You owe the fans to say it’s garbage and shit. 💩

I agree with everything that was said. A lot of missed opportunities. I was hoping to see footage I haven’t seen before but that was few and far between. Like with Eight Days A Week, they built it up like it was going to be something the hard core fan would enjoy but then the talking heads come in taking up way too much time and you realize they’re playing loose with the time line or the footage and you realize it really is for a more casual fan who’s not going to question it. And that’s fine. It was enjoyable enough for a watch.

Too woke and politically correct equals disaster.

Thanks for the very good review, my father and my stepmother bought me all of the episodes on VHS in 2001 not long after they were released and John and Yoko were outspoken about feminism and John was very supportive of feminism too and the second wave of feminism was at the time still pretty recent and totally misunderstood and misjudged as ''crazy'' which sadly it still is to a certain extent, so it was very brave and important for John who was very influential and popular with many young people both female and male, to do this. Was this included in this program ? I really hope so. One episode had New York lawyer Rina Uviller who became a judge years later for the New York county supreme court.Mike Douglas said that he was often approached by many youmg people including men saying this was his best shows ever and his ratings were the highest they had ever been. And just months later he and Yoko's even more brave and blunt feminist song Woman Is The N****r Of The World was released and banned off of many radio stations and John and Yoko mostly John, bravely performed it with his Elephant's Memory band on The Dick Cavet show in May of 1972 and then he performed it live at Maddison Square Garden in August of 1972 for The One To One concert to help raise money for retarded children and adults. And another episode had feminist actress Barbara Loden on talking about her recent pro-woman feminist film Wanda and I think it was said on the show ( I haven't watched them in many years) that it was John's idea to have her on I think it might have been Yoko who said this.Barbara sadly died in September of 1980 from breast cancer at only age 48 just 3 months before John's horrible crazy murder.

The inaccurate comment about The early Beatles not being ''macho'' is pretty funny considering the fact that in their personal lives during their early touring years 1963-1966 they had sex with tons of young women groupies and many were the teen girls ( as all rock bands did and do) screaming in their concerts. And John said in his very last radio or any interview on December 8,1980 that he came from the macho school of pretense. He said that a boy is mainly brought up like to be in the army, and he said he knows it's more like this in England than over here,but there's still this macho ethic of don't touch,don't feel,don't cry don't react and not express emotions and he said that's what screwed us all up and he said he thinks it's time for a change. And very much thanks to Yoko's feminism he became a whole full person not only a half of one anymore and that's what freed him and changed him 180% for the better into an outspoken proud pro-feminist and nurturing house husband to Yoko and their little son Sean. In a great article in The Nation,Lennon's Last Interview:The Sixties Showed Us The Possibility by Jon Wiener, he said in John's last radio interview by Dave Sholin of RKO Radio (and this was hours before John was tragically killed by the one time big Beatles fan since he was 11,and John had been his favorite Beatle) Dave asked John about feminism and John said, ''I'm more feminist now than I was when I sang Woman Is The N***** Of The World.'' in this article John is then quoted saying,' 'Isn't it time we destroyed the macho ethic? Where has it gotten us all of these thousands of years? Are we still going to have be clubbing each other to death? Do I have to arm-wrestle you to have a relationship with you as another male? Can we not have a relationship on another level?'' Also a great 2010 Huffington Post article by long time anti-sexist,anti-men's violence,anti-pornography educator former all star high school football player and author of the great,important 2006 book,The Macho Paradox:How Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help, Jackson Katz.John Lennon on Fatherhood,Feminism,and Phony Tough Guy Posturing

I was in 3rd grade in 1963-64, and I was immediately taken with the Beatles. While I was certainly aware of Kennedy's death, in my 3rd grade awareness, I was *not* in a protracted funk over it! I don't know what age group was in this alleged despondency, but it wasn't my grade school classmates. We responded to the music, not to some postulated emotional relief!

I honestly had no interest in watching it because I knew what it was going to be. If new Beatles fans want to watch a good documentary about the band, have them watch “The Beatles Anthology” or read the book. JFK’s assassination was a tragic loss and a cataclysmic moment in history, but so was 9/11. How come we didn’t have any great band after 9/11? The Beatles were destined to make it in America whether President Kennedy was alive or dead. I don’t know if he would have been a Beatles fan. He was more of a Sinatra guy, but he probably would have been cordial and said nice things about them. Terence Trent D’Arby or Sananda Maitreya. Ok…I guess Rick Astley wasn’t available? With all due respect, I fail to see the connection. The more I watch and listen to Paul and Ringo, the more I miss John and George because their absence is increasingly evident. We get the same stories over and over again. Boring. We are allowed to be critical of The Beatles. If you want to listen to sycophants, there are plenty of other KZbin channels you can go to for that. You guys are great because you tell people what they need to hear, not what they want to hear. And not everyone wants to hear dissenting opinions. They want to hear “Oh, this documentary was great! Oh, I loved it!” Fine. That’s their opinion. We’re allowed to disagree.

Having 60+ year old men who know everything about the band and have bought everything from the band review this isn’t a good idea The documentary was geared towards people who weren’t familiar with the bands arriving in February of 64. I watched the video with young people who loved it and learned about the band Wasn’t made for people like yourself

While I think any show about the Beatles is worth seeing, it does seem like this was a missed opportunity and like Eight Days a Week from 2016, it could have given us much more. I appreciate your honest opinions. Great show guys! Thanks!

Beatles ‘64 did more harm than good for the brand image. A 13 year old on Disney+ stumbling upon this doc will be turned off within 5 minutes by the irrelevant talking heads and lack of excitement. This doc had horrible vision, pacing and bad editing

I agree with your review. The docu The Beatles First US Visit, available on dvd, is sooo much better! More music, more Beatles stuff. This new documentary indeed focuses way too much on how people experienced Beatlesmania in the usa. Not enough music, way too many talking heads :- )

I love you guys and have listened to every one of your shows. I’m halfway through and I can’t believe that I’m listening to three old bastards who have nothing positive to say. I’m 73 and I was there when Kennedy was assassinated and watched on TV as Oswald was shot by Jack Ruby. It WAS a dark time and they WERE a bright light. This is a perfect example of why ultra fans like yourselves, take yourselves WAY too seriously. I loved it and I’m sure most of us did.

I am glad that my phone was fully charged when I watched this train wreck. At least I found something interesting on KZbin while I watched this Disney bore fest.

At this point what is there left to really reveal? This was directed at a more larger general audience and is a major miss for hard core fans. Give us a Peter Jackson enhanced Shea Stadium by now; the Rubber Soul Deluxe box. Paul needs to get London Town and Back to the Egg out in Deluxe expanded versions.

So Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play? - Dave

But what about their great music inside all of these albums?

You guys really should have more subscribers.

You Have to Have Meet The Beatles in Stereo 😊...to get the full power of that Album 😊

I have a original 1964 Copy of Meet The Beatles 😊....i recently got the new Mono...why mono... where is the stereo version...i want it on CD

The opinion usually was that the Parlophone releases sounded better than the Capitol records. Now, it seems this new set is not all analog? No thanks. I remember listening to the Parlophone stereo releases, which had digital in the production chain. The records sounded dead and flat. Covers and extras may be nice, but I'm only into vinyl for the sound, as long as its all analog.

Note to all from the admin: In general, all of you fans have made doing this show for these past 14+ years a lot of fun. As we have ALWAYS said, constructive criticism is always welcomed. Humorous, playful, teasing comments are always welcome. Obnoxious, harmful, personal or abusive digs and comments are not. We do this for the love of the music, and for the camaraderie. In our excitement to get this video done and get this info to you, certain video settings were not checked until it was too late. We were not happy about that, but our chase was to either give you a legitimate video or a 'simulated' re-shoot. As a result, the quality isn't what we wanted... but the content is. And guess what else (to someone who knows who they are)... I'm PROUD to be the age that I am, and to have the wisdom and knowledge that I have. As a professional lecturer and a podcaster, I am also proud to share it. YOU on the other hand, need to learn to keep your insulting comments to yourself and to grow up.

The UK retail price for the new The Beatles 1964 US Albums In Mono box set is $250.60 (199.99 GBP), while we are being charged a lot more in the US, retailed here at $299.98. We are being overcharged here in the US! What a rip-off Apple/Universal! Shame on you all.

One only needs to open the opening through which the inner case slides in and out.

No one can actually hear any differences between analog and digital.

I was 15 when "The Beatles hit the US. I gave away almost all my first generation "Beatles" LPs 1973 and replaced them with Apple-label "stereo" in 1973. Those I gave away were thoroughly worn.

When is Rubber Soul gonna be? any guesses?

Enjoyed your unboxing session but before you start telling your viewers to buy these reissues because they will sound better than the original versions shouldn’t you listen to them first??? Had your heard them before commenting on the sound?

I bought my copynin Barcelona, Spain this afternoon,the sound in near audiophile🎉🎉

Cannot work out why they waited until this time of year to release it, maybe it should have been released half-way during the year, which would have made it sixty years after The Beatles broke the USA and before their first nationwide US Tour. Usually with releases like this, they do not come so close to solo reissues, so releasing a week after the reissue of Living In The Material World is odd.

Thanks Guys!

Strange to hear all Americans referencing 1964 as the start of their Beatles journey. Here in England, by 1964, they had already had five hit singles, including three No.1's, starting in 1962 with Love Me Do.

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Just in case you missed it the box has a red white and blue color to represent the U.S version

No...just no

Hello Gentlemen, Thank you for this episode!! The set is absolutely Gorgeous!!! I hope it sounds INCREDIBLE!!!! this is a wonderful set and I really loved watching your joy with looking at each lp. Take care and ENJOY