This is the scarcely credible beginning of the Great Adventure, going back, back, back into a great war in a grey time that seems to belong to other beings in other worlds. Britain under Hitler's bombs, boys not yet Beatles struggling for a place in the sun. Wonderful archive of yesterday's enemy seaports now united by primitive, derivative rock'n'roll - Hamburg and Liverpool, full of young men scuffling for position and rank, nobody with advantage except for real gifts and those the Beatles had aplenty: wit, music, energy, looks, personality. The good Lord sent them a manager, Brian Epstein, and a producer, George Martin, and so we see how John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr influenced by the power of American r'n'r and r&b used their cheek and confidence and talent to get their first Number One in Britain: Please, Please Me. Wallow in these Black and White beginnings - see how the forties became the fifties became the sixties and discover how becoming the Beatles became.
Elenco: Paul McCartney , George Harrison , Ringo Starr , John Lennon , Neil Aspinall , George Martin , Derek Taylor , Stuart Sutcliffe , Brian Epstein , Yōko Ono , Pattie Boyd , Linda McCartney , Mal Evans , Jimmie Nicol , Wilfrid Brambell , Helen Shapiro , Yannis 'Magic Alex' Alexis Mardas , Michael Lindsay-Hogg , Maharishi Mahesh Yogi , Ed Sullivan , Allen Klein , Norman Pilcher , Cilla Black , Mary Hopkin , Billy Preston , Elvis Presley , Bob Dylan , Little Richard , Buddy Holly , Mick Jagger , Jimi Hendrix , Eddie Cochran , Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom .