Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr were adorable at Eight Days a Week premiere

“Eight Days a Week: The Touring Years” follows the band on the road for four years from their native Liverpool in 1962 through a series of United States tours characterised by Beatlemania.

Macca told reporters: ‘We’re getting great memories obviously of playing with John and George.

The film’s world premiere took place earlier today in the Beatles’ home city of Liverpool.

‘So that’s very emotional and very special to see that again’.

Along with the talk – a lot of it from Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr – comes the concert footage, including a knockout “Twist & Shout” (Manchester, 1963) and a rendition of “Help” (Blackpool, 1965) that showcases the quartet’s ineffable coordination of a disarmingly honest lead lyric, euphonious answer harmonies, explosive guitar licks and locomotive drums.

Howard, John Lennon’s widow Yoko Ono, and George Harrison’s widow Olivia Harrison were among those at the star-filled screening, but the marquee guests were Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr.

“If you like the Beatles, you’re gonna love this”, Starr said of the doc. “We happen to be two of them and here we are”, he said.

Former Beatles Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr reunited for a walk down memory lane on Thursday for the premiere of a documentary by Oscar victor Ron Howard about the Fab Four as they toured the world in the 1960s.

We’ve certainly been waiting for this moment to arise.

The band played their last big concert at Candlestick Park in San Francisco in 1966, and had their last live performance together three years later on the rooftop of their Apple Records headquarters in London. “You can only do that for so long”.

The film makes use of a rich archive of old footage – pictures, videos and audio recordings – of the band at the height of Beatlemania, with screaming fans, snippets of the cheekiness of the then young men and the group at work in the studio.