Fab Four's First U.S. Concert, Unseen in Over 4 Decades, Comes to the Big Screen on May 17 & 22
Limited Engagement Features Interviews with Aerosmith's Steven Tyler and Joe Perry, Chuck Berry, Duffy, Mark Ronson, Promoter Sid Bernstein, Louise Harrison and Many More
NEW YORK, April 24,
2012 -- Screenvision, in partnership with Ace Arts , and multiple-award winning music
documentary producer Iambic Media, brings one of the music world's true
"lost treasures" to the big screen with the feature presentation of "The
Beatles: The Lost Concert." The new 92-minute documentary charts the birth
and impact of Beatlemania in America and includes, in its entirety, their
first-ever full U.S. concert performance from February 11,
1964 at D.C.'s Washington Coliseum, the only complete Beatles' concert
available to fans, one which has remained unseen by movie theater audiences
across the nation for over 47 years.
Rock superstar and American Idol judge
Steven Tyler commented: "This blows away
every performance I've ever seen, including Elvis!"
The story of their historic arrival in America and the impact they had is
revealed through new interviews with more than 20 Beatles' associates,
journalists, disc jockeys, concert attendees, historians and music luminaries
and archival footage of the Fab Four. The list includes Aerosmith's Steven Tyler and Joe
Perry , rock pioneer Chuck Berry
, super producer Mark Ronson ,
journalists Maureen Cleave , Larry Kane and Ed Rudy ,
concert promoter Sid Bernstein , Beatle George's sister Louise
Harrison , The Strokes' Albert Hammond
Jr . and Nick Valensi ,
chart-topping U.K. songstress Duffy, renown Beatles historian Bruce Spizer, and Mike
Mitchell , whose recently unearthed photos of the event are seen
throughout the movie.
On February 11, 1964, two days after their record
shattering appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show," The Beatles traveled by train
through a snowstorm to Washington, D.C. to
perform their first-ever concert before an American audience at The Washington
Coliseum, before an overbooked audience of 8,092 screaming (mostly female)
teenagers.
Their 12-song set that lasted a little over a half-hour and included
both chart-topping originals like "She Loves You" and high-energy covers like
"Twist and Shout." Professionally filmed by an eight-camera crew and mixed live
on location, the show was broadcast a month later via closed-circuit to movie
theaters across America to two million teenagers. The film of the concert was
then lost and remained unseen in its entirety by audiences for over 47 years!
The original master tapes have now been restored and re-mastered and the entire
concert, the ONLY complete Beatles concert available to fans, is included
in The Beatles: The Lost Concert.
Sure to rekindle the fires of Beatlemania for both the generation who lived
it and the younger ones influenced by it, the event will be shown in movie
theaters across the U.S. in a limited engagement on May
17 and 22, 2012. In addition, a special World Premiere is scheduled at
New York's landmark Ziegfield Theater on May 6 with two showings. For information, including
detailed history, movie trailer and tickets, go to www.lostbeatlesconcert.com .
The resonating impact of the Beatles' in performance is illustrated in the
raves given in interviews during the documentary. Commenting on them as musical
competition for all who came in their wake, Mark
Ronson , the producer behind hits from Amy Winehouse and Adele, adds:
"You're always going to be standing in the shadow of The Beatles." U.K. pop
sensation Duffy calls them "the Holy Grail of music," while Mike Mitchell , the young photographer who chronicled
the show, adds: "The concert was like being in the delivery room at the birth of
an entire generation." Tommy Roe , one of
their opening acts that evening may have put it best: "This is history!"
ABOUT SCREENVISION
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York, N.Y., Screenvision is a national leader in cinema advertising,
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ABOUT ACE ARTS
Ace Arts, based in New
York and England, specializes in
distributing performing arts events, concerts and documentaries in North America.
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