Genre TV Special Original network ITV Director Rita Gillespie | Directed by Rita Gillespie Initial release 6 May 1964 First episode date 6 May 1964 | |
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Starring The Beatleswith Long John BaldryP.J. ProbyThe Vernons GirlsCilla BlackSounds IncorporatedMillie Original release 6 May 1964 (1964-05-06) Similar The Beatles: The First, The Beatles at Shea Sta, How I Won the War, The Compleat Beatles, Magical Mystery Tour | ||
Around the beatles 1964 vol8
Around the Beatles was a 1964 television special featuring the Beatles, produced by Jack Good for ITV/Rediffusion London. It was taped in Wembley Park Studios and are now known as Fountain Studios in London on 19 April 1964, and broadcast internationally, with its initial airing on 6 May 1964, and in the US on the ABC network on 15 November. The show featured other performers as well, with the Beatles providing backing vocals for some of them.
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Performances
The show opens on an image of the Globe Theatre, with Ringo Starr unfurling a flag with the legend "Around the Beatles". The studio setting is arranged as a theatre in the round, (hence the show's name) echoing the seating arrangement of the Globe. The opening act is a humorous rendition of the "play within a play", Pyramus and Thisbe (Act V, Scene I) from William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, with Paul McCartney as Pyramus, John Lennon as his lover Thisbe, George Harrison as Moonshine, and Starr as Lion, and also features Trevor Peacock in the role of Quince.
The Beatles
Other acts
Production
Legacy
The special was released as a bootleg video by Media Home Entertainment. A video segment from the special appears in The Beatles Anthology documentary film. Songs from the special appear on the Anthology 1 compilation. The Beatles' musical set features the only recorded performance of "Shout" by the group. The footage of them singing "Can't Buy Me Love" is now included on the video disk of the 2015 reissue of the compilation 1.
