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Summary: A MUST HAVE
Review: This is MUST HAVE if you like Beatles music. This is the whole enchalada from beginning to the end. It is well presented and includes all the hits and the background information too. This is the only Beatles DVD you will need to get. This is one of the best music DVD's on the market.
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Summary: Pretty definitive -- a must for serious fans
Review: The Beatles were/are inarguably the most popular and influential rock & roll/pop group in the short history of modern music. Their influence spanned generations, fashion, film, and culture. This DVD anthology set illustrates why. What's good about this presentation is that the Beatles themselves narrate their own history as well as comment on how they influenced the world. Naturally, they don't go into WHY. They're rather humble, and they aren't sociologists anyway. There are only 2 flaws: first is that there is such a lack of post-Beatles Lennon footage -- he did some good TV interviews, and only snippets appear here. Second is that this could have been an "Exhaustive" collection by presenting ALL the music videos these guys did. But then perhaps that's the NEXT project on the Apple agenda. Let's hope so. I'd love to see their music videos (then called "promo clips" or "promo films") from '63 thru the mid-70s (the Capitol contract era).
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Summary: The Definitive Biography of the Band
Review: The opening title sequence is a perfect illustration: Starting with a close-up of the group's icon on Ringo's bass drum, the band, as if from an ethereal plan, plays while the frame pans out. The music gets louder but the background screaming of the crowd becomes overwhelming in intensity as the image of the band diminishes under a huge Beatles logo and their song becomes totally drowned out by the hysterical crowd: As a pebble thrown into a still pond, the ripples expand indefinitely while the source of the energy becomes lost beneath the water. This incredible set of live performances, video footage, interviews, and excellent digitally mastered audio recordings weaves a comprehensive portrait of the rise of the working-class bar-band from their youth through their last recordings as the Beatles. Recent interviews intertwined with the earliest impressions of John, Paul, George, and Ringo provide a full circle perspective that is probably the best recorded compilation of a pop super-phenomenon in the 1960s.
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Summary: Beatles obsessions will be fulfilled!
Review: 11 hours of fantastic Beatles memories!!! This set is only recommended for those die-hard Beatle fanatics like myself. But if you are one of those people, then you certainly won't be disappointed by this set. However, pace yourself. There is A LOT of stuff, and even the most obsessed of fans will find themselves overwhelmed after a few hours. I recommend watching one DVD a day. Each DVD holds 2 episodes, for roughly 2 and 1/2 hours of Beatlemania! This set is a crown jewel in my DVD collection, and it was definitely money well spent. Plus, the sound and video quality is superb. They really did a nice job cleaning up the old footage for this set.
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Summary: All You Need is This Anthology
Review: The Beatles Anthology is essential to any Beatles collection. This DVD set, based on the mini-series from 1996, tells the Beatles' own story in each Beatle's own words. The sound is fantastic, the videos are great, and the interviews are very informative and often humourous.
If the DVD set has one shortcoming, it is in the presentation of the video footage. I would have personally enjoyed watching the music videos in their entirety. Only clips were shown of some live footage, and I would have liked to have seen the entire song performed. Also, the interviewees were speaking and sometimes shown during the music videos and live performances, a great annoyance. It was like watching MTV's TRL at some points, with only a shortened version of a video while someone is talking.
Overall, the DVD collection is absolutely fantastic and well worth its price. A great companion to the DVD is The Beatles Anthology book. It provides twice as much information as the DVD and is a compelling read. To understand the Beatles in their own words, both are essential as the DVD leaves out much of the book, but the DVD also has information the book doesn't.
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Summary: If you want a personal encounter with the Beatles.....
Review: Such a close encounter with the Beatles! It will make your heart so warm inside, and have U get to know them at more deeper personal level (unless of course...). Just get it!!!! U will C what I mean.
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Summary: As committed a fan as ever
Review: I borrowed the 8 VHS tapes from the library and am sorry I didn't watch this sooner. Talk about a trip back in time!This gives THE complete history of the world's greatest rock and roll band, the ones who started it all, the originals who have been often imitated but never duplicated. After watching the entire Anthology, you think you've watch the evolvement of two different bands. It was one band from 1964-1966, the height of Beatlemania, when they toured the world and did live (and taped) appearances on nearly every country's major shows (e.g. The Ed Sullivan Show). From late-1966, after their final concert in San Francisco, to the end, they were a completely different band. It was interesting to learn that one of the reasons why they stopped touring, besides the screaming that made it impossible for them to hear themselves playing, was because the songs were becoming increasingly difficult to duplicate onstage, showng their growth as musicians. They broke barriers and brand new territory with St. Pepper. I felt like an insider when it was said that the boys deliberately created music that could never be duplicated live on stage (back in the 60's, anyway). In the end, this Anthology is the be all and end all of everything the Fab Four and is a must have for any serious fan. It was refreshing to hear the truth directly from the source.
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Summary: Addictive
Review: I got this for my husband's birthday. We spent the better part of a weekend watching it from beginning to end. It was gripping. It will make your life pass before your eyes (if you're over 35).
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Summary: THE BEATLES will rule the music history forever!!!
Review: This Apple masterpiece is really great. I couldn't buy the VHS version on the past because it was unavailable on the market. This DVD version is really good, with all the advantages this technology has, and with a very good price.
If you are a BEATLES fan you will have everything if you buy this box-set. Every footage, every clip is included here; and narrated by THE BEATLES.
The picture quality is great, as well as the sound and the features this DVD has.
I really look forward for the remastered version of LET IT BE!!!
BEATLES FOREVER!
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Summary: Don't Let The Pundits Fool You.
Review: In various magazines, this collection always seems to get dinged for one reason or another. Those "experts" are full of you know what. This is an amazing look at the band that not only changed pop music, but the world. There are a million wonderful moments to point out, but every individual who watches these will have a different favorite. However, I will share one of mine. Time and time again, you will be absolutely blown away by how musically tight this group was in concert, despite not even being able to hear themselves play, let alone think. For fans of any kind of modern music, this is essential.
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