'Beatles '64' trailer: the Fabs take America in new Disney+ doc

NME

It's produced by Martin Scorsese, directed by David Tedeschi and features never-before-seen footage of John, Paul, George and Ringo

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00:00Are you filming now?

00:02They're in perfect synchronisation.

00:04Are they?

00:05I bet you can hear your own voice talking.

00:07It's a late zone.

00:08Hello.

00:09How you doing, Ringo?

00:10I'm alright.

00:16We were just like, we're in America.

00:19America.

00:20It's great being here in New York.

00:22Okay.

00:23Washington.

00:24Oh, is that the place?

00:25I don't know, Washington.

00:27I'm just moving so fast.

00:30They wanted to know everything about America.

00:32The food, the groups, the dancing.

00:35And they loved it.

00:37It was like being in the eye of a hurricane.

00:39It was happening to us and it was hard to see.

00:43They were the first white group that I'd ever heard in my life.

00:46Say, yeah, we grew up listening to black music.

00:48We think they're just great.

00:50Especially their hairdo.

00:51I think there's something very strange about it

00:53at the same time something very sick.

00:55My sister had the radio on and I heard the Beatles.

00:57It's like total darkness.

00:59And then the light comes on.

01:00I was like, oh my God.

01:02Something for us.

01:07If we could get the camera down on this mic, it'd be a real laugh.

01:10How about, go on, go on.

01:11Defy convention.

01:14I think the craziness was going on in the world and in the band.

01:18You know, we were kind of normal and the rest of the world was crazy.

01:21Everybody got into the mania whenever the Beatles came to town.

01:26When we came, it was quite shortly after Kennedy being assassinated.

01:30Maybe America needed something like the Beatles

01:33to be lifted out of sorrow.

01:36The elixir that they put together is so profound.

01:39It wasn't just about the songs.

01:41It was the power of music to transform lives.

01:44The girls crying.

01:45They ain't falling now.

01:47Who they crying for?

01:48What do you like about the Beatles?

01:55Or do you just like the Beatles because they're English?

01:57I think we're English.

01:59I think we're jolly English, actually.

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