Exclusive: new ‘Beatles ’64’ trailer shows the Fabs taking America: “Their music gets inside of you”
nme.comBeatles ’64 director David Tedeschi has spoken to NME about the upcoming, Martin Scorsese-produced documentary on the Fab Four, which explores the band’s culture-shifting three-week trip to America in the titular year.
The new film will be available to stream from November 29, but we can exclusively share the first trailer above.The documentary features rare, newly restored 4K footage of the band originally shot by the filmmakers Albert and David Maysles for the 1964 documentary What’s Happening!
The Beatles In The U.S.A. Tedeschi, who was an editor on Scorsese’s Rolling Stones documentary Shine A Light and George Harrison: Living In A Material World, also bagged new interviews with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and fans who greeted the lads after their arrival in New York.In a wide-ranging chat, Tedeschi discussed the parallels between our own divided world and that of 1964, the band’s interpersonal relationships and his work with Scorsese.
He also noted of the aforementioned fans: “It was such a visceral experience that they didn’t know how to put it into words – that’s why they screamed, you know?”“I’m a New Yorker; Scorsese is a New Yorker.
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