This film is of Mark Lewisohn's 2022 stage show bringing to life what the Beatles did in 1962, enhanced by on-location filming by director Chris Purcell. We talk about how it showcases a performance style and an enthusiasm that belies a reputation for dry historical detail. And quite a bit about Ringo Starr's drumming, as it turns out.
Links
You can rent Evolver 62 on Prime Video and Apple TV at the moment
The Red Dwarf episode with the Ringo joke is series 2, episode 6, "Parallel Universe"
Trailer for Bart Layton's The Imposter, which repopularised reconstructions in documentary
Actor Peter Boyle, at whose wedding John Lennon was best man
Ed's point towards the end about how the surfeit of biography online affects fandom is paraphrased from Monsters: What Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People? by Claire Dederer
Videos
Watch the trailer:
The Ringo interview it turns out we were both thinking of was actually with Dave Stewart, not Elvis Costello: