A Hard Day's Night (album)

A Hard Day's Night
A Hard Day's Night
Studio album by the Beatles
Released	10 July 1964
Recorded	29 January – 2 June 1964
Studio	EMI, London; Pathé Marconi, Paris;
Genre	Rock; pop rock; pop;
Length	30:11
Label	Parlophone
Producer	George Martin
The Beatles chronology
Singles from A Hard Day's Night
	"Can't Buy Me Love"; Released: 20 March 1964; "A Hard Day's Night"; Released: 10 July 1964;

A Hard Day's Night is the third studio album by the English rock band the Beatles, released on 10 July 1964 by Parlophone, with side one containing songs from the soundtrack to their film of the same name. The American version of the album was released two weeks earlier, on 26 June 1964 by United Artists Records, with a different track listing that included selections from George Martin's film score. In contrast to the Beatles' 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 partnership.

The album includes the song "A Hard Day's Night", with its distinctive opening chord,^[4] and "Can't Buy Me Love", both transatlantic number-one singles for the band. Several of the songs feature George Harrison playing a Rickenbacker 12-string electric guitar, a sound that was influential on the Byrds and other groups in the emerging folk rock and jangle pop genres.

^ World – Volume 2 – Page 61, 1973. "[on Help! and A Hard Day's Night], the soundtrack – gone – rock album is a marketing ideal that is passed off on the buying public with objectionable regularity and has already begun to backfire."
^ Spignesi & Lewis 2004, p. 140.
^ Hejeski, Nancy J. (2014). The Beatles: Here, There and Everywhere. Simon & Schuster.
^ Hook 2005.

[1] World – Volume 2 – Page 61, 1973. "[on Help! and A Hard Day's Night], the soundtrack – gone – rock album is a marketing ideal that is passed off on the buying public with objectionable regularity and has already begun to backfire."

[FOOTNOTESpignesiLewis2004140-2] Spignesi & Lewis 2004, p. 140.

[3] Hejeski, Nancy J. (2014). The Beatles: Here, There and Everywhere. Simon & Schuster.

[FOOTNOTEHook2005-4] Hook 2005.

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