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Oh I do think it's worth having (big surprise, ahem) but really, the atmosphere comes right through it - the joy the four of them have at being together and miraculously being back on stage with a stadium full of fans. Yeah, it's only the old music and they do the old Beatles medley to pad it out (which is lovely in and of itself but always to me ends up sounding less good than the Beatles, as anyone would) but the staging and filming is good and there's a nice 'making of' kind of filling in the gaps about what happened after 'For the Record' (although Gary's book has more detail)

The narrative sucks you in, it really does, it has all the elements of epic TV series - love, disagreement, separation, teamwork, reversals of fortune, challenges, separate and inter-twining relationships, villains and shades of grey. *g*

The fact that they all became so used to working with and around gay men, going to gay clubs, flirting with gay men to help themselves along as woman might flirt with a straight man is very interestingly explored in Gary's book. He talks about enjoying being mistaken for a gay man and - to me most fascinatingly - his jealousy when he realised that whilst their manager favoured him, he clearly was far more attracted to Jason - I could go on but I don't want to tell you all of it in advance - I really wasn't expecting such honesty or such self-deprecation from him.