1. Enthralling classic inspired from Raymond Brigg's bestseller of the same name. 2. how would you feel when you get up one morning to discover an invisible giant by your bed side? 3. A North Pole adventure of an old man and his dog.

A Hard Day's Night may have been the Beatles' first big-screen experience but, as they had become the biggest band in the world by the time of its production, the Moptops were able to ensure it was a bit different from the band-movie norm. "We'd made it clear that we weren't interested in being stuck in one of those nobody-understands-our-music plots," John Lennon would later recall, "The kind of thing where we'd just pop up a couple of times between the action, all smiles and clean shirts, to sing our latest record."

Instead the quartet recruited a young director named Richard Lester--who had previously worked with the Fab Four's beloved Goons--to make a movie that followed them as they enjoyed and endured the phenomenon that was Beatlemania. "The film wrote itself right in front of our eyes," says Lester. "We just took the dirty bits and cut them out." The result is a frenetic hour and a half inside the Beatles' personal space as they engage in all manner of surreal hijinks--more often than not involving Paul's "grandfather" (played by Steptoe and Son's Wilfrid Brambell) while dodging the ever-present horde of screaming fans. Although the result now seems a little dated, there remains an almost heartbreakingly good-natured aura around the foursome's naïve performances, while few could argue about the quality of a soundtrack that includes "Can't Buy Me Love", "And I Love Her" and "A Hard Day's Night" itself, to name but a few. Whether the film would have been quite so successful if Lester had followed McCartney's suggestion and called it "Oh, What a Lovely Wart!" will, sadly, never be known. --Clark Collis

Liverpool- the vehicle that catapulted a group of simple boys into phenomenal singers. Watch all the people associated with the legends, talk about their early days.

Heard of Johnny and the Moondogs? Well, that was exactly the name Beatles would have been known as, had it not been?well, Beatles.

Hamburg- What is Hamburg doing in the story of Beatles? Hmmm? That's exactly where the formidable foursome spent days having sex and drugs, before fame transformed their lives forever?

Ed Sullivan formally introduced them to us in the North American tour? His famous words "And now here they are" was a perfect introduction for these legends, who have ARRIVED.