New Beatles documentary announced with Conan O’Brien and The Rest Is History | Music | Entertainment

Earlier this week, the newly revamped Beatles Anthology documentary series from the 1990s hit Disney+, with the Fab Four sharing their story in their own words

And now in collaboration with the project, The Rest is History’s Tom Holland and Beatles mega-fan Tom Holland have rare access to the band’s music and archive material for a two-part special.

Aside from appearing in the usual podcast feed, a filmed version featuring Abbey Road Studios will be available on YouTube from Wednesday December 3.

How did this come about? Conan is a big Rest is History podcast fan, and had both Holland and his co-host Dominic Sandbrook on his podcast in October.

Meanwhile, Disney CEO Bob Iger is also a megafan and took part in a series on the history of Disney.

Co-host of The Rest Is History, Tom Holland, on The Beatles and this special episode: “I’d argue they’re historically significant because they act as lightning rods for everything that made the 1960s such a revolutionary decade. In many ways, we in the 21st century are still living in the aftermath of the ’60s – just as people in the 16th century lived in the wake of the 1520s. The cultural and ethical transformation is on that scale, and the Beatles were not only symbols of it, but active drivers of it.”

Speaking on the podcast, Conan O’Brien added: “The Beatles were a complete break from everything that came before. They were singer-songwriters who wrote their own music, and in so many ways they broke the mould. Most groups at the time had a clear frontman — Dion and the Belmonts, for example — and there was real pressure on them to follow that model. For a moment they were even Johnny and the Moondogs. But they always knew they were a group; the power was in the synergy between them, which was unusual then. They were a departure from almost everything that preceded them and remain as relevant today as they were in 1964.”

The Rest Is History – Beatles Special with Conan O’Brien launches Wednesday December 3 on YouTube and all podcast platforms here.