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A Hard Day's Night is the third UK album by The Beatles, released on 10 July 1964 as the soundtrack to their film of the same name. The US version of the album was released on 26 June 1964 by United Artists Records with a different tracklisting. It was eventually replaced by the original UK version with its first release on CD, 26 February 1987.
While showcasing the development of the band's songwriting talents, the album sticks to the basic rock and roll instrumentation and song format. It is the first Beatles album to feature entirely original compositions, and the only one where all the songs were written by Lennon/McCartney.[1] The album contains some of their most famous songs, including the title track and its distinct, instantly recognizable opening chord;[2] and "Can't Buy Me Love", both were transatlantic number one singles for the band. The album and film are said to portray the classic image of the Beatles, as it was released at the height of Beatlemania.
According to music critic Richie Unterberger, "George Harrison's resonant 12-string electric guitar leads 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 U.S. market for fellow Brits 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."[3]
The title of the album was the accidental creation of drummer Ringo Starr.[4] According to Lennon in a 1980 interview with Playboy magazine: "I was going home in the car and Dick Lester [director of the movie] 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.'"[5]
In 2000, Q placed A Hard Day's Night at number five in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever.[6] In 2003, the album was ranked number 388 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.[7]
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