A Hard Day's Night
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| Single by The Beatles from the album A Hard Days Night (album) |
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| B-side | "Things We Said Today" (UK) "I Should Have Known Better" (US) |
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| Released | 10 July 1964 | ||||
| Format | 7" | ||||
| Recorded | Abbey Road Studios: 16 April 1964 | ||||
| Genre | Rock | ||||
| Length | 2:32 | ||||
| Label | Parlophone (UK) R5160 Capitol (U.S.) 5222 |
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| Writer(s) | Lennon/McCartney | ||||
| Producer | George Martin | ||||
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| “ | We went to do a job, and we'd worked all day and we happened to work all night. I came up still thinking it was day I suppose, and I said, 'It's been a hard day...' and I looked around and saw it was dark so I said, '...night!' So we came to A Hard Day's Night. | „ |
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—Ringo Starr, 1964 |
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| “ | Late one night, when we were all pretty tired after a heavy day, somebody said, 'We've had a hard day.' Ringo followed up with, 'A hard day? Look at the clock. You mean a hard day's night, don't you? We all looked at each other and said, 'That's it. That's the title we've been after.' | „ |
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—John Lennon, 1964 |
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| “ | The title was Ringo’s. We’d almost finished making the film, and this fun bit arrived that we’d not known about before, which was naming the film. So we were sitting around at Twickenham studios having a little brain-storming session, and we said, ‘Well, there was something Ringo said the other day.’ Ringo would do these little malapropisms, he would say things slightly wrong, like people do, but his were always wonderful, very lyrical They were sort of magic even though he was just getting it wrong. And he said after a concert, ‘Phew, it’s been a hard day’s night.’ | „ |
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—Paul McCartney, The Beatles Anthology, 1994 |
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| “ | I was going home in the car and 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.' And the next morning I brought in the song... 'cuz there was a little competition between Paul and I as to who got the A-side — who got the hits. If you notice, in the early days the majority of singles, in the movies and everything, were mine... in the early period I'm dominating the group. The only reason he sang on 'A Hard Day's Night' was because I couldn't reach the notes. (sings) 'When I'm home/ everything seems to be right/ when I'm home...' — which is what we'd do sometimes. One of us couldn't reach a note but he wanted a different sound, so he'd get the other to do the harmony. | „ |
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—John Lennon, 1980 |
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| “ | John called me at 8:30 the next morning and said that he and Paul had jotted one [a title for the film] down on some scraps of paper. We recorded it that same night. | „ |
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—Walter Shenson (Producer, A Hard Day's Night), 1964 |
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Listen to "A Hard Day's Night" from the movie opening sequence:
