The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years (Screening)
In partnership with the Kanbar Event Series, Universal Music Group, and Hulu.
Featuring a special message from Paul, Ringo, and Ron Howard, a talkback with Larry Kane and Harry Weinger, and an exclusive gift!
After their now-legendary North American debut on “The Ed Sullivan Show” in 1964, The Beatles transfixed the U.S. and the tremors were felt worldwide, transforming music and pop culture forever with their records and television appearances. The Beatles’ extraordinary musicianship and charisma also made them one of the greatest live bands of all time.
In The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years, Oscar® -winning director Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind, Apollo 13) explores the history of The Beatles through the lens of the group’s concert performances, from their early days playing small clubs in Liverpool and Hamburg to theirunprecedented world tours in packed stadiums around the globe from New York to Melbourne to Tokyo. The first feature-length documentary authorized by The Beatles since the band’s breakup in 1970, Eight Days a Week features rare and never-before-seen archival footage of shows and interviews, plus new interviews with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and numerous prominent observers. The film captures the exhilaration of The Beatles’ phenomenal rise to fame as well as the toll it eventually took on the band members, prompting them to stop touring altogether in August 1966 and devote their prodigious musical energy to the series of ground-breaking studio recordings for which they are best known today.
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This event is open to current NYU students and CDI alumni only. Must have a valid NYU ID. Seating is limited.
About Larry Kane
Larry Kane, known as the dean of Philadelphia television news anchors, will mark 50 years in Philadelphia broadcasting in September 2016.. He’s been in broadcasting since the age of 15 in 1957. After his anchoring career ended, Kane hosted the Voice of Reason program on The Comcast Network through 2014. Kane is currently a special contributor for CBS’s KYW News radio, and is a consultant for NBC Sports Group, including NBC’S regional sports networks and the Golf Channel, where he works developing broadcaster’s careers and advising management.
This veteran of 23 political conventions since 1968 (including the historic. 1968, 2008 and 2012 conventions) Kane is perhaps most well known for his insight on American politics and government. Those stories were featured in 2000 in his first book "Larry Kane's Philadelphia’ (Temple Press, Foreword by Dan Rather), a regional best seller. As the only broadcast journalist to travel to every stop on the Beatle's 1964 and 1965 tours, Kane authored “Ticket to Ride” in 2003 (Running Press, Penguin Paperback, Foreword by Dick Clark) and Lennon Revealed (Running Press), a New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller in 2005. Recently, he released his first novel, “Death By Deadline”, a cautionary mystery about the dangers of bad information, and the risks of out-of-control local TV News operations. Running Press, New York, Philadelphia and London released IN 2013, Kane’s book, “When They Were Boys, the True Story of the Rise of the Beatles.” Ticket To Ride became an e-book on all platforms several years ago.
The Emmy Award-winning newsman was honored by the Mid-Atlantic Emmy organization with their Governor's Award in 2005, recognizing Lifetime Achievement. In the annals of broadcast history, Kane is best known for the success of Action News at WPVI in Philadelphia, where, with some of the most innovate minds in broadcasting, he helped propel the station in one year, from 1970 to 1971, to first place in the news ratings. The Action News format changed the face of contemporary broadcasting in the early 1970's, placing the emphasis on local news connected to extraordinary community involvement by stations across the country. His success brought him to New York and ABC News and WABC TV. After 18 months, he returned to Philadelphia and completed his unique trifecta, working for the NBC and CBS stations. Kane is the only news anchor to anchor a total of 39 years at all three Philadelphia owned and operated TV stations.
His assignments have included the Middle East peace talks; the return of the American hostages from Iran to Wiesbaden, West Germany; the devastating earthquake in Naples, Italy; the 1987 Superpower Summit between Reagan and Gorbachev, seven visits to the Middle East and an in-depth interview in Poland with Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa. In 1985 he and his colleagues at WCAU TV were honored with the prestigious Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award for their coverage of the confrontation between Philadelphia Police and the radical group MOVE. In 1961, as a young radio News Director, Kane broke the story of the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba, a development that occurred after months of creating relationships with the Miami-based Cuban exile underground.
Kane has interviewed a virtual who's who of newsmakers, including every President from Lyndon Johnson to Barack Obama. In 1965 and 1966. Kane conducted groundbreaking radio interviews with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Recognized as a leading proponent of the rights of the disabled, Kane is campaign chairman of the Delaware Valley Multiple Sclerosis Society. Late in 2013, the National MS Society named a medical fellowship for Larry Kane, after his 41-year tenure on the MS Board, a calling he assumed after the death of his mother, because of MS, at the age of 40. For 40 years, Kane has broadcast weekly features on radio and TV in connection with the National Adoption Center to find homes for waiting children, along with many non-profit endeavors. He resides in suburban Philadelphia with his wife, Donna. They have two children and five grandchildren.