Beatles ’64 – New documentary coming to Disney+
Martin Scorsese producing
Having secured a deal with Apple Corps for Peter Jackson’s The Beatles Get Back and then the restored version of Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s 1970 Let It Be, Disney+ continue their association with the Fab Four by announcing Beatles ’64, an “all-new” documentary that captures The Beatles first visit to America.
The film is directed by David Tedeschi and produced by legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese. That pair have collaborated previously, with Tedeschi editing 2011 George Harrison biopic Living in the Material World and editing and executive producing the more recent Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story, both of which were directed by Scorsese. They were also both involved in the 2016 HBO mini-series Vinyl.
On 7 February 1964, The Beatles arrived in New York City and were famously mobbed by fans at Kennedy Airport. Beatlemania swept NYC and the entire country as the band performed on ‘The Ed Sulilvan Show’ and travelled to Washington for their first American concert. All of this has been documented before, of course, via Albert and David Maysles’ superb What’s Happening! The Beatles in the U.S.A. which later became The Beatles: The First US Visit when re-edited in the early 1990s.
Unsurprisingly, Beatles ’64 will include footage shot by Albert and David Maysles, restored in 4K by Peter Jackson’s Park Road Post, in New Zealand. Also, the live performances from The Beatles first American concert at the Washington, DC Coliseum and their Ed Sullivan appearances, have been ‘demixed’ by WingNut Films and remixed by Giles Martin, which will undoubtedly generate speculation about a future vinyl and CD release. The music and footage in Beatles ’64 are augmented by newly filmed interviews with Paul and Ringo, and Beatles fans.
Beatles ’64 starts on Disney+ on 29 November 2024. A week earlier, Capitol/UMe will release a vinyl box set called 1964 US Albums in Mono. You can read more about that on this post.
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1964 US Albums in Mono - 8LP box set
Tracklisting
1964 US Albums in Mono The Beatles /
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LP 1: Meet The Beatles!
SIDE ONE
- I Want To Hold Your Hand
- I Saw Her Standing There
- This Boy
- It Won’t Be Long
- All I’ve Got To Do
- All My Loving
SIDE TWO
- Don’t Bother Me
- Little Child
- Till There Was You
- Hold Me Tight
- I Wanna Be Your Man
- Not A Second Time
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LP 2: The Beatles’ Second Album
SIDE ONE
- Roll Over Beethoven
- Thank You Girl
- You Really Got A Hold On Me
- Devil In Her Heart
- Money (That’s What I Want)
- You Can’t Do That
SIDE TWO
- Long Tall Sally
- I Call Your Name
- Please Mister Postman
- I’ll Get You
- She Loves You
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LP 3: A Hard Day’s Night (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
SIDE ONE
- A Hard Day’s Night
- Tell Me Why
- I’ll Cry Instead
- I Should Have Known Better (Orchestral Instrumental)
- I’m Happy Just To Dance With You
- And I Love Her (Orchestral Instrumental)
SIDE TWO
- I Should Have Known Better
- If I Fell
- And I Love Her
- Ringo’s Theme (This Boy) (Orchestral Instrumental)
- Can’t Buy Me Love
- A Hard Day’s Night (Orchestral Instrumental)
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LP 4: Something New
SIDE ONE
- I’ll Cry Instead
- Things We Said Today
- Any Time At All
- When I Get Home
- Slow Down
- Matchbox
SIDE TWO
- Tell Me Why
- And I Love Her
- I’m Happy Just To Dance With You
- If I Fell
- Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand
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LP 5: The Beatles’ Story
SIDE ONE
- On Stage With The Beatles
- How Beatlemania Began
- Beatlemania In Action
- Man Behind The Beatles – Brian Epstein
- John Lennon
- Who’s A Millionaire?
SIDE TWO
- Beatles Will Be Beatles
- Man Behind The Music – George Martin
- George Harrison
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LP 6: The Beatles’ Story
SIDE ONE
- A Hard Day’s Night – Their First Movie
- Paul McCartney
- Sneaky Haircuts And More About Paul
SIDE TWO
- The Beatles Look At Life
- Victims’ Of Beatlemania
- Beatle Medley
- Ringo Starr
- Liverpool And All The World!
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LP 7: Beatles ’65
SIDE ONE
- No Reply
- I’m A Loser
- Baby’s In Black
- Rock And Roll Music
- I’ll Follow The Sun
- Mr. Moonlight
SIDE TWO
- Honey Don’t
- I’ll Be Back
- She’s A Woman
- I Feel Fine
- Everybody’s Trying To Be My Baby
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LP 8: The Early Beatles
SIDE ONE
- Love Me Do
- Twist And Shout
- Anna (Go To Him)
- Chains
- Boys
- Ask Me Why
SIDE TWO
- Please Please Me
- PS. I Love You
- Baby It’s You
- A Taste Of Honey
- Do You Want To Know A Secret
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LP 1: Meet The Beatles!
By Paul Sinclair
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