“It’s almost impossible to get the definitive story of the Beatles,” says Paul McCartney in The Beatles Anthology . That hasn’t stopped people trying. The craze for filmed fodder about the Fab Four has barely relented since the band split up in 1970; in the last five years alone, we’ve had films ranging from excellent (Peter Jackson’s Get Back ) to perfectly fine (Martin Scorsese-produced Beatles ‘64 ) to niche (the Cirque du Soleil/Beatles collab All Together Now ). Not to mention the four major biopics on each member , from Sam Mendes, arriving in 2027.

Now we have the return of the account that arguably comes closest to “definitive”. The Beatles Anthology was a landmark project when it was released in the early ‘90s, consisting of an 8-part television series (broadcast

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