Although his films may have benefited greatly from foreign audiences and patrons, David Lynch was one of the most thoroughly American of all filmmakers. “Born in Missoula, Montana,” his Twitter profile declares, but no one has ever linked him to a specific location in the United States (at least not one that exists). The Lynch family moved from Montana to Idaho, Washington, North Carolina, and Virginia. The timing of that final mission turned out to be quite culturally coincidental. Lynch, an 18-year-old living in the city of Alexandria, was close enough to the capital to attend his first concert. The Beatles performed at the Washington Coliseum, North America, on February 11, 1964..
“I was interested in rock and roll music, primarily Elvis Presley,” Lynch recalls of this surprising fact. top clip (This would have been one of the last interviews he gave before his death a year ago) Beatles’64a Martin Scorsese-produced documentary about the Fab Four’s first U.S. tour.
“I had no idea how big the event was, and there was a boxing match going on in a huge place. The Beatles were in the boxing ring. It was incredibly loud. The girls were shaking and crying. That deafening crowd noise appeared in nearly every account of the group’s Beatlemania-era shows, and played a defining role when they retired to the studio for good a few years later.
Lynch would certainly have understood the desire for artistic exploration and control that drove the Beatles to focus on record production. There was a commonality between the sensibilities of his work and theirs, both exhibiting an unlikely combination of popularity and experimentation. Somehow, David Lynch movies and Beatles albums were able to venture into bewildering obscurity and sentimental kitsch without losing coherence or critical respect. And can you imagine that the experience of witnessing the American debut of what would become the most influential rock band of all time gave Lynch an appreciation for the power of music, which he calls “one of the greatest”? Even if it wasn’t, it must have been, well…surreal.
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