Fans won't learn anything new from Disney+'s new Beatles documentary. Beatles '64, However, they will be able to see some fun old footage from their first trip to America in 1964, as well as new interviews with the band's two surviving members in 2024. And let's just say Paul McCartney is a lot less diplomatic now than he used to be. He was 60 years ago.
When asked how he felt about the less-than-warm reception the Beatles received at a cocktail party at the British Embassy in Washington, D.C., where they stopped on their way from New York City to Miami, the current McCartney said: During his first two-week stint, McCartney did not hold back.
“We don't think about that!” he exclaimed, still at age 82, full of his characteristic boyish energy. We are on a turbulent journey. ”
But according to photographer Harry Benson, who traveled with the Beatles on their first trip to America, the boys were more bothered by the rude staff at the British embassy than McCartney said.
“The treatment from the embassy staff was terrible. They called them scumbags.” The Beatles were shocked by that,” Benson said in a talking head interview featured in the film. “George Harrison almost cried.”
But clearly, McCartney holds no grudges.
“I've gotten used to it,'' McCartney says now. “We're working-class people. I guess we thought if we were up against high-class people, they'd probably look down on us.”
the beatles '64 Directed by David Tedeschi, produced by Martin Scorsese, Margaret Bode, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Olivia Harrison, Sean Ono Lennon, Jonathan Clyde, Michaela Beardsley, and starring Geoff Johns and Rick Yorn will serve as executive producer. The film is currently streaming on Disney+ and is free to all subscribers.
