“Beatles Across America” Available For Download (except in USA)
Uncut reports that an archive Beatles ITN news documentary from 1966 has been made available for video download through digital company Wippit. The 23 minute documentary was only ever aired once in the UK and featured the Beatles’ controversial tour of the US in 1966, which followed the interview that John Lennon gave claiming that the group were ‘more popular than Jesus Christ.‘ The programme shows Lennon defending himself for the comments he had made five months earlier and making something of an apology.
ITN’s head of music partnerships Ross Landau said: “The Beatles across America is one of ITN’s oldest documentaries filmed for the Roving Report strand. It was only aired once and captures the band at the pinnacle and most controversial period of their career in the USAâ€.
