Tom Dunne: Another Beatles documentary? Yes, and it's well worth a watch

Beatles ’64 is a hugely-entertaining look at the band's first trip to America, and the social changes it was part of 
Tom Dunne: Another Beatles documentary? Yes, and it's well worth a watch

The Fab Four arrive in America, in a still from Beatles 64 on Disney+. 

Beatles ’64 is an all-new documentary on Disney+ from producer Martin Scorsese and director David Tedeschi. There might be some who read that and ask, “What, more Beatles?” but trust me, once again, it is so worth it.

Yes there was the music. Yes there were screaming girls and 73 million Americans tuning into the Ed Sullivan show. But was there something even bigger afoot? Was it, as one reviewer put it, the “mythic ecstatic moment which restored Britain’s postwar pride.”

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