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Studio album by the Beatles
Released 10 July 1964
Recorded 29 January – 2 June 1964
Studio
EMI, London
Pathé Marconi, Paris
Genre
Rock[1]pop rock[2]pop[3]
Length 30:09
Label Parlophone
Producer George Martin
The Beatles chronology
With the Beatles
(1963) A Hard Day`s Night
(1964) Beatles for Sale
(1964)

A Hard Day`s Night is the third studio album by the English rock band the Beatles, released on 10 July 1964 by Parlophone, with side one containing songs from the soundtrack to their film of the same name. The American version of the album was released two weeks earlier, on 26 June 1964 by United Artists Records, with a different track listing that included selections from George Martin`s film score. In contrast to the Beatles` first two albums, all 13 tracks on A Hard Day`s Night were written by Lennon and McCartney, showcasing the development of their songwriting partnership.

The album includes the song `A Hard Day`s Night`, with its distinctive opening chord,[4] and `Can`t Buy Me Love`, both transatlantic number-one singles for the band. Several of the songs feature George Harrison playing a Rickenbacker 12-string electric guitar, a sound that was influential on the Byrds and other groups in the folk rock/jangle pop movement.

Recording
See also: A Hard Day`s Night (film)
Shortly after the release of With the Beatles (1963), the Beatles were at EMI Pathé Marconi Studios in Paris on 29 January 1964 for their first recording session outside of London. Here, they recorded German-language versions of their two most recent singles, `I Want to Hold Your Hand` and `She Loves You`, titled `Komm, gib mir deine Hand` and `Sie liebt dich`, respectively. According to their producer, George Martin, this was done as `they couldn`t sell large quantities of records [in Germany] unless they were sung in German`.[5] Also recorded—in English—was Paul McCartney`s `Can`t Buy Me Love`, which was completed in only four takes.[5] Shortly afterward, the band gave their first live performance in the United States on The Ed Sullivan Show on 9 February. They gave more US performances before returning to the United Kingdom on 22 February.[6]

The Beatles were set to begin filming their first major feature film on 2 March 1964. According to historian Mark Lewisohn, the band were set to record songs for both the film and a tie-in LP, of which the songs from the film were completed first.[7] On 25 February—lead guitarist George Harrison`s 21st birthday—the band were back at London`s EMI Studios, recording John Lennon`s `You Can`t Do That` for release as the B-side of `Can`t Buy Me Love`. The band also attempted `And I Love Her` and `I Should Have Known Better` on this day and again the following day, with the former finalised on 27 February.[7] Two more songs from the film, `Tell Me Why` and `If I Fell`, were recorded on this day.[7]

On 1 March 1964, the Beatles recorded three songs in three hours: `I`m Happy Just to Dance with You` for the film, featuring Harrison on lead vocal; a cover of Little Richard`s `Long Tall Sally`; and Lennon`s `I Call Your Name`, which was originally given to Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas the previous year.[8] Mono and stereo mixing was carried out over the following two weeks. The `Can`t Buy Me Love` / `You Can`t Do That` single was released on 16 March and topped charts worldwide.[8] Taking a break for filming,[9] drummer Ringo Starr coined the phrase `a hard day`s night`, providing the film with its title. Lennon and McCartney wrote a song based on the title, which was recorded at EMI on 16 April and mixed four days later.[10]

On 1 June, with the film completed and the band returning from holidays, the Beatles returned to EMI, recording the remaining songs for the tie-in LP, with outtakes appearing on the Long Tall Sally EP.[11] Covers of Carl Perkins` `Matchbox`, with Starr on lead vocals, and Larry Williams` `Slow Down`, appeared on the EP, while Lennon`s `I`ll Cry Instead` and `I`ll Be Back` appeared on the LP. The following day on 2 June, the band completed Lennon`s `Any Time at All` and `When I Get Home`, and McCartney`s `Things We Said Today`.[11] The band spent the remainder of June and July touring internationally.[12]

Content
Musically, A Hard Day`s Night eschews the rock and roll cover songs of the band`s previous albums for a predominantly pop sound.[13] Sputnikmusic`s Dave Donnelly observes `short, peppy` pop songs characterised by layered vocals, immediate choruses, and understated instrumentation.[14] According to Pitchfork`s Tom Ewing, the lack of rock and roll covers allows listeners to `take the group`s new sound purely on its own modernist terms`, with audacious `chord choices`, powerful harmonies, `gleaming` guitar, and `Northern` harmonica.[13] Music journalist Robert Christgau writes that Lennon–McCartney`s songs were `more sophisticated musically` than before.[15] It also features Harrison playing a Rickenbacker 12-string electric guitar, a sound that was influential on the Byrds and other bands in the folk rock explosion of 1965.[16][17]

Side one of the LP contains the songs from the film soundtrack. Side two contains songs written for, but not included in, the film, although a 1980s re-release of the film includes a prologue before the opening credits with `I`ll Cry Instead` on the soundtrack.[18] The title of the album and film was the accidental creation of Starr.[19] According to Lennon in a 1980 interview with Playboy magazine: `I was going home in the car and [film director] Dick Lester suggested the title, `Hard Day`s Night` from something Ringo had said. I had used it in In His Own Write, but it was an off-the-cuff remark by Ringo. You know, one of those malapropisms. A Ringo-ism, where he said it not to be funny ... just said it. So Dick Lester said, `We are going to use that title."[20]

A Hard Day`s Night is the first Beatles album to feature entirely original compositions, and the only one where all the songs were written by Lennon–McCartney.[21] Lennon is the primary author of nine of the thirteen tracks on the album, as well as being the lead singer on these same nine tracks (although Paul McCartney sings lead on the title track`s middle-eight). Lennon and McCartney co-wrote `I`m Happy Just to Dance with You`, sung by Harrison,[22] while McCartney wrote `And I Love Her`, `Can`t Buy Me Love` and `Things We Said Today`. It is one of three Beatles albums, along with Let It Be and Magical Mystery Tour, in which Starr does not sing lead vocal on any songs. (Starr sang the lead vocal on `Matchbox` during the sessions; it appeared instead on the Long Tall Sally EP.) It is also one of three Beatles albums, along with Please Please Me and Beatles for Sale, in which Harrison does not contribute to the songwriting.

Critical reception and legacy
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic [23]
The A.V. Club A[24]
Blender [25]
Consequence of Sound A−[26]
The Daily Telegraph [27]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music [28]
Paste 100/100[29]
Pitchfork 9.7/10[13]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide [30]
Sputnikmusic 4.5/5[14]
According to music critic Richie Unterberger, writing for AllMusic:

George Harrison`s resonant 12-string electric guitar leads [on A Hard`s Day`s Night] were hugely influential; the movie helped persuade the Byrds, then folksingers, to plunge all out into rock & roll, and the Beatles would be hugely influential on the folk-rock explosion of 1965. The Beatles` success, too, had begun to open the US market for fellow English bands like the Rolling Stones, the Animals, and the Kinks, and inspired young American groups like the Beau Brummels, Lovin` Spoonful, and others to mount a challenge of their own with self-penned material that owed a great debt to Lennon–McCartney.[31]

In his book Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!: The Story of Pop Music from Bill Haley to Beyoncé, Bob Stanley identifies A Hard Day`s Night as the album that best captures the band`s early-career appeal. He writes:

If you had to explain the Beatles` impact to a stranger, you`d play them the soundtrack to A Hard Day`s Night. The songs, conceived in a hotel room in a spare couple of weeks between up-ending the British class system and conquering America, were full of bite and speed. There was adventure, knowingness, love, and abundant charm.[32]

A Hard Day`s Night was included in the list of `100 Essential Rock Albums` compiled by musicologists Charlie Gillett and Simon Frith for ZigZag magazine in 1975, and is one of the `Treasure Island albums` featured in Greil Marcus`s 1979 book Stranded.[33] In 2000, Q magazine placed A Hard Day`s Night at number 5 on its list `The 100 Greatest British Albums Ever`.[34] That same year, it appeared at number 22 in Colin Larkin`s book All Time Top 1000 Albums.[35] In 2012, Rolling Stone ranked it 307th on the magazine`s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.[36] In the 2020 revision, it rose to number 263.[37]

A Hard Day`s Night has also appeared in critics` lists of the best albums of all time published by the NME, in 1974 (at number 33), 1985 (number 73) and 2013 (number 195); Mojo, in 1995 (number 81); and Uncut, in 2016 (number 149).[33] It was a featured album in The Mojo Collection: The Greatest Albums of All Time, Tom Moon`s book 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die and Robert Dimery`s 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, and was selected as one of the `Most Significant Rock Albums` in the Greenwood Encyclopedia of Rock History.[33] Based on the album`s appearances in professional rankings and listings, the aggregate website Acclaimed Music lists A Hard Day`s Night as the most acclaimed album of 1964, the 45th most acclaimed album of the 1960s and the 222nd most acclaimed album in history.[38]

Track listing
All tracks are written by Lennon–McCartney

Side one of the UK & Australian LP release (& soundtrack to the 1964 United Artists film A Hard Day`s Night)
No. Title Lead vocals Length
1. `A Hard Day`s Night` Lennon with McCartney 2:34
2. `I Should Have Known Better` Lennon 2:43
3. `If I Fell` Lennon with McCartney 2:19
4. `I`m Happy Just to Dance with You` Harrison 1:56
5. `And I Love Her` McCartney 2:30
6. `Tell Me Why` Lennon 2:09
7. `Can`t Buy Me Love` McCartney 2:12
Total length: 16:23
Side two
No. Title Lead vocals Length
1. `Any Time at All` Lennon 2:11
2. `I`ll Cry Instead` Lennon 1:44
3. `Things We Said Today` McCartney 2:35
4. `When I Get Home` Lennon 2:17
5. `You Can`t Do That` Lennon 2:35
6. `I`ll Be Back` Lennon 2:24
Total length: 13:46
Personnel
Sources:[63][64][65]
The Beatles

John Lennon – vocals; acoustic, rhythm and lead guitars; harmonica; piano on `Things We Said Today`
Paul McCartney – vocals; bass guitar; piano on `When I Get Home`; cowbell on `You Can`t Do That`
George Harrison – vocals; lead (six- and twelve-string) and acoustic guitars
Ringo Starr – drums, percussion
Additional personnel

George Martin – piano on `Tell Me Why`, production, orchestrations of instrumentals for film and American LP