Just in time to celebrate the historic milestone of the Beatles‘ first U.S. visit, producer Martin Scorsese and director David Tedeschi have teamed for the new documentary Beatles ’64, which will arrive Nov. 29 on Disney+.
The project comprises rare footage shot by documentary filmmakers Albert and David Maysles, which was restored in 4K by director Peter Jackson’s Park Road Post in New Zealand. Live performance clips from the Beatles’ debut American performance at the Coliseum in Washington, D.C., as well as their iconic appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show, were demixed by Jackson’s WingNut Films team and re-assembled by producer Giles Martin. These technologies were heavily utilized in Jackson’s 2021 Beatles documentary Get Back and facilitated the completion and release last year of a final Beatles song, “Now and Then.”
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Beatles ’64 will also include new interviews with surviving band members Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, as well as fans who delved headfirst into the earliest period of Beatlemania.
McCartney and Starr are credited as producers in tandem with George Harrison’s widow Olivia, John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s son Sean, Margaret Bodde and Mikaela Beardsley. Jeff Jones and Rick Yorn are executive producers.
Beatles ’64 will be released a week after the reissue of seven American versions of the band’s Meet The Beatles!, The Beatles’ Second Album, A Hard Day’s Night, Something New, The Beatles’ Story, Beatles ’65 and The Early Beatles, which have been out of print on vinyl since 1995.
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