They never really fully left, but The Beatles are coming together, at least on the big screen, one more time.
Oscar-winning director Ron Howard has put together some long-lost and forgotten footage of the Fab 4 to bring the story of their touring years back to life for fans and movie-goers.
While many of this generation may not know who John, Paul, George and Ringo are, they may be familiar with songs that shaped the music world of the '60s and beyond.
Howard and his team reached out to the original fans of Beatlemania for help, finding film of concerts recorded by fans well before the invent of cellphones, local news clips and bootleg recordings, The Guardian reported.
"We were lucky to find a number of bootleg soundboards. So we got them digitized and restored them to flesh out some of the concert moments, to add a lot more detail and bring the viewer in from arm's-length, get them up close, intimate," Howard said.
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"The Beatles: Eight Days A Week - The Touring Years," includes footage from when they performed "I Saw Her Standing There" in Washington, D.C., shows from Japan, Australia and finally back in the U.S. at Shea Stadium and Candlestick Park.
The film includes the memories of some stars like Sigourney Weaver and Whoopi Goldberg, and even the director himself.
At the time The Beatles hit the U.S., Howard was a star in his own right, appearing on "The Andy Griffith Show" as Opie Taylor. He said he asked for Beatles' boots and a wig for his birthday. He struck out on the boots, but he said he did get the wig, wearing it through his 10th birthday, The Guardian reported.
And if you don't have every, single, CD or download from "Meet the Beatles," to "Abbey Road" and beyond, the new digital re-issue of "Live at the Hollywood Bowl" is on iTunes and is available on CD, the Chicago Sun Times reported.
"The Beatles: Eight Days A Week - The Touring Years" will premiere on Sept. 15 and then hit theaters across the U.S. on Sept. 16 and will then be available on Hulu for streaming on Sept. 17.
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