"Though his movies may have benefited greatly from foreign audiences and backers, David Lynch was one of the most thoroughly American of all filmmakers. "Born Missoula, MT," declared his Twitter bio, yet one never really associates him with a particular place in the United States (at least no extant one)."
"From Montana, the Lynch family moved to Idaho, then Washington, then North Carolina, then Virginia. The timing of that last stint proved culturally fortuitous indeed: living in the city of Alexandria, the eighteen-year-old Lynch was close enough to the nation's capital to attend the very first concert the Beatles played in North America, at the Washington Coliseum on February 11, 1964."
""I was into rock and roll music, mainly Elvis Presley." Lynch recalls this unsurprising fact in the clip above (which would have been among the last interviews he gave before his death a year ago) from Beatles '64, the Martin Scorsese-produced documentary on the Fab Four's first U.S. tour. "I didn't have any idea how big this event was. And it was in a gigantic place where they had boxing matches. The Beatles were in the boxing ring. It was so loud, you can't believe. Girls shuddering, crying, screaming their heart out. It was phenomenal.""
David Lynch was born in Missoula, Montana and moved with his family through Idaho, Washington, North Carolina, and Virginia. While living in Alexandria at eighteen, he attended the Beatles' first North American concert at the Washington Coliseum on February 11, 1964. Lynch had a strong early interest in rock and roll, particularly Elvis Presley. He recalled the event as gigantic and overwhelmingly loud, with the Beatles positioned in the boxing ring and girls shuddering, crying, and screaming their hearts out. The deafening crowd noise figured into accounts of Beatlemania and influenced the group's later retreat into studio work.
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