Product Details

• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Kultur Video
• VHS Release Date: March 26, 1996
• Run Time: 60 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6304034636
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #345,291 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Despite its unauthorized status, this hourlong documentary offers a comprehensive survey of the Beatles' career, from the escalation of Beatlemania to the band's disintegration in 1970. It's a suitable primer for neophytes, not as illuminating as the epic-length Beatles Anthology (how could it be?), but offering material that can't be found elsewhere, including interview clips with associates from the Beatles' early days (such as Mersey Beat editor Bill Harry and former Cavern Club owner Ray McFall). A few myths are corrected, and familiar archival footage covers all the Beatle basics, from the "bigger than Jesus" backlash to speculation, disregarded here as erroneous, that Yoko Ono broke up the Beatles. Due to licensing restrictions, music is supplied by the "Bootleg Beatles," a look-alike nostalgia group seen in a closing segment as a pale echo of the Fab Four, playing to the kind of younger audience that this video is intended for. --Jeff Shannon

From the Back Cover

This unique video chronicles the extraordinary lives and times of the Beatles, from their earliest days in Liverpool to their position as the most successful pop group ever. This video includes rare footage that traces the phenomenon of Beatlemania as it rapidly spread through England and across the Atlantic to America. This program is packed with never-before-seen footage and includes interviews with the Beatles at critical moments in their careers from the days of Beatlemania, 1962-1970. This is the Beatles...in their own words. The Beatles Story also includes present day footage and retrospective interviews shot on location in London and Liverpool with members of the Beatles' inner circle. This Beatles documentary reveals all of the most intimate details of he band, and the Beatlemania they inspired.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

33 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't Buy This...................................., July 31, 2001

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Jeff Beal (Schaumburg, IL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Beatles Story - Days of Beatlemania, 1962-1970 [VHS] (VHS Tape)

If you are some kind of bad documentary junkie who can't get enough of the VH1 Behind the Music ..., this is the video for you. Beatles fans, stay away! I'd really only give this "specialty" item one half star. Not one note of Beatles music is on this tape (the makers obviously didn't have the time or money to actually get licensed fab four tunes). Instead, we get a blend of elevator muzak and other sound-alike liverpudlian bands, neither of which could fool a toddler into thinking it was them. Not since the Ed Rudy "live" rip-offs of the 1960's have I seen such a blatant violation of the Sacred Beatles' name. I spit on this tape.Adding insult to injury, a bunch of "groupies" share meaningless tidbits of information with us, none of which having much relevence to Beatles' history. Aside from some rare interview material it is utterly useless and a terrible disgrace. BEWARE!

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars worthwhile,but barley, August 23, 2000

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nat adamo (brooklyn, new york United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Beatles Story - Days of Beatlemania, 1962-1970 [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I really anticipated this video being a die-hard fan of the Bea tles.But there is precious little new information and footage.There is too much commentary from people that I am not interested in. This reinforces my feeling that the producers needed something to fill in the gap.The video runs about 60 minutes and at times fleshes out film we are all familiar with but very briefly.If you are new to the Beatles or have a casual interest and don't want to spend the money for the Anthology ,you might enjoy this.As for me this was just a momentary fix!

20 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One Of The Best Documentarys On The Beatles!!!!, April 24, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Beatles Story - Days of Beatlemania, 1962-1970 [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This Story Of The Beatles Is Very Good!This Gives You Inside Details On And About The Legendary Beatles!I Highly Recomend That If Your A Big Beatle Fan To Get This Movie!!!!!