Years later, Williams and the Beatles spoke fondly of one another, with McCartney describing Williams in "The Beatles Anthology" as 'a great guy'. In the 1970s, Williams played a crucial role in producing the first Beatles conventions to be staged in Liverpool, and he was a perennial VIP guest at the city's annual Beatle Week Festivals. In 1975, he published a memoir, "The Man Who Gave the Beatles Away", to which Lennon gave his endorsement. Recovering a tape of a latter-day Beatles show in Hamburg (performing on New Year's Eve of 1962–63), he saw it released (in 1977) as "Live! at the Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany; 1962". The tapes were subsequently rereleased and bootlegged multiple times in the years since under different titles on budget labels. In 1999 the micro-budget film "All Those Years Ago" was released by Shotmaker Productions. The film is largely based on William's own recollections of his time managing the fledgling Beatles. Although initially flattered and sympathetic to the film, in his second book, "A Fool on the Hill", Williams described the film makers as being deceitful and the film as "utter rubbish". "The Man Who Gave the Beatles Away" is also the title of a musical by Irish playwright Ronan Wilmot, which was performed at the New Theatre in Dublin in 2002.