Customer Reviews
A story so brilliant it is FAB - By: Mr. R. S. Hutton Mckee, 18 Jul 2008 
I am not realy a Beatles fan I was born after the band split but this set tells the story of a band that still dominates the music scene. I liked the anthology on TV I like the music & the story behind the music. Brilliant.
Another great docummentary of "THE BEATLES" - By: Mr. Cl Hetherington, 29 Jun 2008 Every episode is so addictive & you will want to watch the whole series alll over again.
Good value for money - By: mikey, 20 Oct 2007 This has loads of info that you would find interesting,and running at over 10 hours long,is good value for money..
Emotional, moving, definitive! - By: T. Clarke, 10 Oct 2007 Probably the best piece of Beatles memorabilia you could ever buy. I had originallly taped the series of TV way back in the mid 90's, but the DVD is now a permanent storage that won't have Gardner's World taped on it!
With alll the members of the band present (except of course for the late John) their is a real authenticity about the footage - not just what a narrator thinks. They alll give great in-depth in-sights, from how they alll met, to the final & emotional days of Abbey Road. Perhaps one unique thing about the band members are their personalities - rarely would a band member these days take the time to produce such a long, in depth story of one of the greatest bands we've known.
The editing is super, & sets it aside from other documentaries. No split second footage of songs, so tiny cuts people talking - its just transcends so nicely. Many songs are actuallly footaged in their entirety, & the moving between stories/years is so smooth.
Perhaps the most emotional part of this collection is the end. The interviews end quite bluntly, but its rather fitting, as Ringo explains, because the band never talked about 'it being the end'. They just enjoyed making Abbey Road, & went their separate ways. The editing at thr very end which plays clips of songs mixed together, with the sad but happy photo of them in the field reallly touches your heart, after everything they had been through for almost a decade.
It's not surprising however that, in typical Paul McCartney fashion (ie. he wants to be 'different'), we see him not just talking & giving stories in one chair. He is constantly in several places, from piloting a boat, to rather oddly having a camp-fire in a field. Hmm...
What makes this more special now is that, with poor George passing (my fave Beatle for his simple down to earthness) we still have a lovely record of him here & looking very healthy. It was a real shock when he died, as he seemed such a lovely guy.
I can't recommend this highly enough. It's quite pricey, but what you may not realise is the sheer length of time it actuallly scales, & for that, its definitely worth considering.
Probably worth fifty stars if you're a real fan - By: Brian Levine, 31 Aug 2007 This gives you pretty much everything you could possibly want about the Beatles. most of the music is in there somewhere or other, the footage is classic (of course) & the editing rather good.
You could almost just buy this & forget everything else if you were a real blue meanie....
