If you thought there couldn’t possibly be any more archival footage to memorialize Beatlemania Peter after Peter Jackson’s 3-part docuseries, Disney+ would like to have a word. The long-awaited Martin Scorsese-produced “Beatles ’64” is finally available to stream online.

But Beatles ’64, which premieres on Disney+ on Nov. 29, starts by pulling back: way back. Instead of Paul, John, George, and Ringo, we get John F. Kennedy, urging us to go to the moon because it is hard and descending the airplane steps in Dallas,

Before Taylor Swift and the cult of Swifties took over pop culture, The Beatles created a similar craze in 1964 with Beatlemania. Their appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show remains iconic (even Boygenius paid homage to it during their SNL appearance).

I scream, you scream, we all scream for Beatlemania… but maybe it’s been a while. “Beatles ’64,” the new Martin Scorsese-produced documentary on Disney+, aims to recapture the shrieks that greeted the Beatles’ arrival on American shores at the beginning of 1964.

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