Talk:The Compleat Beatles

Merge
I would support merging "The Complete Beatles" with this article and having the other redirect here.Squad51 19:48, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Done. There really was only a little bit (parts of two sentences) that was not already in this article.  6SJ7 23:52, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Re: Similarity to 1984 film 'Complete Beatles'
Just watched the Rutles DVD last night, and in the extras, Idle mentions (in an excerpt from his (unpublished ?) memoirs that he had access via George Harrison to an unreleased but offically-sanctioned documentary film about the Beatles that was later completed and released, and Idle writes that he tried to emulate the feel of this footage with his Rutles film. It's unclear to me whether or not the film he saw as 'The Long and Winding Road' ended up becoming 'The Complete Beatles'. I've reproduced his mention of this issue below. --Neil H.

Here's the exact quote from Eric Idle about the making of the Rutles:

"[George Harrison] had supported me all the way, encouraging me to do it, telling me endless Beatle stories, and even showing me 'The Long and Winding Road,' an Apple cut of the documentary footage of the Beatles which none of them could agree to release. This Neil Aspinall film eventually became the basis for the recently released 'Beatles Anthology', but for a long time my movie existed as a strange parody of a film no one had ever seen."

From "Say No More," The Unpublished Memoirs of an ex-Python [as reproduced on the DVD extras of "The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash"]

Six years?
it says that the Rutles thing was from 1978 and The Compleat Beatles was from 1982, and that they are six years apart. (82-78 = 4)

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BetacommandBot 22:35, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Added formal fair use rationale. Steelbeard1 01:29, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Should the quotes be moved?
Would it make more sense for there to be a seperate WikiQuote article for the quotes from or about this movie instead of putting them in the article? Zobango (talk) 20:21, 13 September 2010 (UTC)