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That same year, "A Hard Day's Night" won the Grammy Award for Best Performance by a Vocal Group. In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked the song at number 153 on its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. [39] In 2000, the 1964 recording of "A Hard Day's Night" on the United Artists label was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. [40]
A Hard Day's Night is a 1964 musical comedy film starring the English rock band the Beatles – John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr – during the height of Beatlemania. Directed by Richard Lester , it was written by Alun Owen and originally released by United Artists . [ 3 ]
A Hard Day's Night was released in 1964 at the height of Beatlemania and was very well received by critics, and remains one of the most influential jukebox musicals. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The film broke new ground in the field of British and American musical feature films, [ 7 ] particularly in its abandoning of the genre's standard rags-to-riches ...
The entire concert is on YouTube, just 20 minutes or so. By the summer, the Beatles had their first U.S. tour, including their first Missouri concert as "A Hard Day's Night," their first film ...
The song "A Hard Day's Night" did not appear in true stereo in the US until the 1982 Capitol compilation album Reel Music. In 2014, the American version of the "A Hard Day's Night" album was released on CD individually and in a boxed set of all the other US Beatles albums to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Beatles first US visit. This ...
In North America, it was released on both the American version of A Hard Day's Night and the album Something New. Credited to Lennon–McCartney , it was written by John Lennon in either Paris or New York City , [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and recorded in eight takes on 27 February 1964.
The Beatles recorded "I'm Happy Just to Dance with You" on a Sunday, the first time they had used Abbey Road Studios on a day other than a normal work day. [3] United Artists released the song on the album A Hard Day's Night on 26 June. It was also included on the album Something New, released by Capitol Records on 20 July. [1]
"I Should Have Known Better" was also issued as the B-side of the US single "A Hard Day's Night" released on 13 July. An orchestrated version of the song conducted by George Martin appears on the North American version of the album, A Hard Day's Night Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.