A Hard Day's Night (song)

July 10, 1964

A Hard Day 's Night (German: , A night of a heavy day ') is a song by British band The Beatles in 1964, it is the theme song of the eponymous film, which was shown in Germany under the name Yeah Yeah Yeah. . Was written the song mainly by John Lennon, but published under the care usual when the Beatles Copyright Lennon / McCartney.

Background

Filming for the first feature film of the Beatles had begun in March 1964 without the film had a title. The title refers to a quote by Ringo Starr back, noticing mid April 1964 after a busy day of shooting: " It's been a hard day". Starr presented at this moment realize that it was already night and completed the sentence with: ". ... Night" The phrase pleased the director Richard Lester, as it sums up the mood of the film. The Beatles now had the task of writing a song with the specified title A Hard Day 's Night. On the same day, April 13, 1964 Lennon composed the song and wrote the text on a greeting card that is now on display in the British Museum in London. The following day, the band played the song before the film producer Walter Shenson, who was excited about it.

Production

A Hard Day 's Night was recorded on 16 April 1964 at Abbey Road Studios in London. Producer was George Martin, assisted by Norman Smith. Overall, the recordings took just three hours to complete where the Beatles recordings nine takes of the song on a four-track tape recorder. Lane 1 contains guitars, bass and drums, lane 2 the song by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Lanes 3 and 4 were with Bongos (played by Norman Smith), acoustic guitar, cowbell, vocals, solo guitar and piano filled. John Lennon sang most of the song; the middle part from " When I'm home ... " McCartney took over as Lennon could not sing so high.

Publication

This song was released on July 10, 1964 Single, simultaneously released their eponymous album, which was opened with the song. The same also feature film was already four days earlier started in Great Britain ( in Germany on July 23, 1964).

The single was a number-one hit in the UK, the U.S. and Germany. 1965 received the Beatles for the song won a Grammy Award for Best Performance by a Vocal Group.

Cover versions

Particularly successful was a parody of the song by Peter Sellers. The film and television comedian recited the text of A Hard Day 's Night in the style of Laurence Olivier in a Shakespearean drama. Accompanied it was not the original music, but from a classical background music. It was the most successful solo hit by Sellers in the British charts in December 1965 and reached number 14 producer of the cover version was also George Martin.

Conversely, played in the same year, the Ramsey Lewis Trio, the melody of A Hard Day 's Night instrumental without lyrics live one. This version was also in the charts and reached the beginning of 1966 in the U.S. space 29