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Beatles ’64 review: Beatlemania sweeps America — and it’s fab

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What is there left to say about the Beatles? Not much. That’s why we’re now seeing old stories from new angles. Beatles ’64, a Martin Scorsese production directed by his former editor David Tedeschi, focuses on a single moment in the Beatles’ career: their arrival in New York on February 7, 1964. That set in motion not just the British invasion but also the entire 1960s garage-rock phenomenon, after teenagers across the US witnessed the band’s February 9 performance on The Ed Sullivan Show and duly modelled themselves in their image. Tedeschi’s approach is to frame the arrival of the Beatles as a new dawn for America, after the devastation of the Kennedy assassination two and a half months previously. And he

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