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Across America
« on: April 23, 2007, 01:24:59 PM »
From uncut.co.uk:

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 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.

Highlights of the rare footage are the one on one interviews with the man who first brought the issue to the attention of American Christians, DJ Tommy Charles from radio station WAQI in Birmingham, Alabama and the Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, Robert Shelton.

Shelton challenged if it was their views on civil rights and colour that really irked him most claimed that due to their
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Re: Across America
« Reply #1 on: April 23, 2007, 05:05:02 PM »
I don't know about a stunning insight into the psyche of the time. I mean, the psyche of the time for those in certain states DOWN SOUTH. It's a small represenataion of the psyche of the time. But yeah, if they mean in showing how important the Beatles were at the time, that's true. I guess.

Why is it not available in North America?!?!
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Re: Across America
« Reply #2 on: April 23, 2007, 05:44:27 PM »
I saw this! Or at least the parts you mention. I wish I could remember where.

Anyway, yes, it's very revealing when Shelton drags out his number 1 insult, claiming he can't tell "if they were
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