A Hard Day's Night (album)
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| Studio album / soundtrack by The Beatles | ||||
| Released | 10 July 1964 | |||
| Recorded | 29 January – 2 June 1964 | |||
| Studio | EMI Studios, London, and Pathé Marconi Studios, Paris | |||
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| Length | 30:13 | |||
| Label | Parlophone | |||
| Producer | George Martin | |||
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| AllMusic |  |
| The A.V. Club | A |
| Blender |  |
| Consequence of Sound | A– |
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| Encyclopedia of Popular Music | |
| Paste | 100/100 |
| Pitchfork Media | 9.7/10 |
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| Sputnikmusic | 4.5/5 |
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1964 stereo United Artists release
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| Soundtrack album by The Beatles and George Martin | |||||
| Released | 26 June 1964 | ||||
| Recorded | 29 January, 25–27 February, 1 March & 1–4 June 1964 | ||||
| Studio | EMI Studios, London and Pathé Marconi Studios, Paris | ||||
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| Length | 29:29 | ||||
| Label | United Artists UAL-3366 (mono) UAS-6366 (stereo) | ||||
| Producer | George Martin | ||||
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A Hard Day's Night is the third studio album by the English rock band the Beatles, released on 10 July 1964, with side one containing songs from the soundtrack to their film A Hard Day's Night. The American version of the album was released two weeks earlier, on 26 June 1964 by United Artists Records, with a different track listing. In contrast to their first two albums, all 13 tracks on A Hard Day's Night were written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney showcasing the development of their songwriting talents. The album includes the title track, with its distinct opening chord, and the previously released "Can't Buy Me Love", both transatlantic number-one singles for the band.
The title of the album was the accidental creation of drummer Ringo Starr. 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.'"
In 2000, Q placed A Hard Day's Night at number five in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. In 2012, A Hard Day's Night was voted 307th on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time". The album was included in Robert Dimery's 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.
Musically, A Hard Day's Night eschews the rock and roll cover songs of the band's previous albums for a predominantly pop sound.Sputnikmusic's Dave Donnelly observes "short, peppy" pop songs characterised by layered vocals, immediate choruses, and understated instrumentation. According to Pitchfork Media'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. Music journalist Robert Christgau writes that Lennon–McCartney's songs were "more sophisticated musically" than before.
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