It took The Beatles 30 minutes to blow away Suffolk Downs.
It took the fans 40 years to retrieve the pieces.

The Beatles said concerts were like being in the “eye of a hurricane”,
a calm center surrounded by howling Beatlemania. For the fans out in
the storm, it was “category five”! When they blew into Boston on
August 18th 1966, I begged to see their concert at Suffolk Downs, but
Mom said they’d be back when I was older. Days later they left the
concert stage forever, and I became an insatiable Beatlemaniac! Years
of collecting and Beatle-inspired adventures followed, but nothing filled
the void of having missed The Fab Four performing in my own back yard.
My friends said I’d need a time machine to see that show—so I built one.

Assembled from unseen movies, photos, snippets of audio and first-hand
accounts, I Wanna Be Your Fan transports us to the experience of
being at this penultimate chapter in The Beatles performing career.
A detailed reconstruction of their visit to Boston, recently discovered
footage from the ‘66 World Tour and a different look at the religious
controversy which dragged across the US will leave no doubt as to why
my mom was wrong and they never came back.

The use of vintage media equipment and 60’s film aesthetics lend a
unique look to my celluloid time machine. I Wanna Be Your Fan
is more than a documentary, it’s a catharsis...a quest. Presented from
the fan’s perspective, here is the story of an event which had a profound
affect on the lives of so many. Beatlemania, as viewed from the hurricane.

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