A HARD DAY'S NIGHT - THE SINGLE (ROOM 210)
A HARD DAY'S NIGHT - THE SINGLE (ROOM 210)
When Brian announced that the band would begin work on their first feature film, The Beatles were given just 2 weeks after their first trip to America in which to record seven new songs for ‘A Hard Days Night’! To make matters worse, EMI decided that the film could in fact become the basis for their new album. With ‘Can’t Buy Me Love’ recently recorded in Paris, The Beatles were now challenged to find even more songs to complete a thirteen-song album. Miraculously not only did they do so, and to an amazingly high standard, they did it by recording the whole album with Lennon-McCartney originals. This was unheard of! Their first two albums broke the mould as the band wrote half of the songs on each of ‘Please Please Me’ and ‘With The Beatles’. Bands just didn’t do that in those days, they had professional songwriters do that for them. But The Beatles were different and A Hard Days Night was a quantum leap forward, with 13 new original Lennon/McCartney compositions. Their output was prodigious at this point. Although all credited to Lennon/McCartney, ten of the thirteen were largely John’s work and never again would a Beatle so dominate an album. The film had a working title of ‘Beatlemania’ but with such a punishing work schedule Ringo remarked after one session “It’s been a Hard Days Night”! A typical Ringoism, it was quickly picked up by the others and became the title of a film, a single and an album!
The opening G suspended 4 chord on George’s new 12 string Rickenbacker was the opening of the song, which is instantly recognizable. As soon as you hear it, you know it’s the opening to A Hard Days Night. That chord is also part of the logo created by Shannon for the Hard Day’s Night Hotel.
Artwork painted and owned by ©SHANNON
A HARD DAY'S NIGHT - THE SINGLE (ROOM 210)
When Brian announced that the band would begin work on their first feature film, The Beatles were given just 2 weeks after their first trip to America in which to record seven new songs for ‘A Hard Days Night’! To make matters worse, EMI decided that the film could in fact become the basis for their new album. With ‘Can’t Buy Me Love’ recently recorded in Paris, The Beatles were now challenged to find even more songs to complete a thirteen-song album. Miraculously not only did they do so, and to an amazingly high standard, they did it by recording the whole album with Lennon-McCartney originals. This was unheard of! Their first two albums broke the mould as the band wrote half of the songs on each of ‘Please Please Me’ and ‘With The Beatles’. Bands just didn’t do that in those days, they had professional songwriters do that for them. But The Beatles were different and A Hard Days Night was a quantum leap forward, with 13 new original Lennon/McCartney compositions. Their output was prodigious at this point. Although all credited to Lennon/McCartney, ten of the thirteen were largely John’s work and never again would a Beatle so dominate an album. The film had a working title of ‘Beatlemania’ but with such a punishing work schedule Ringo remarked after one session “It’s been a Hard Days Night”! A typical Ringoism, it was quickly picked up by the others and became the title of a film, a single and an album!
The opening G suspended 4 chord on George’s new 12 string Rickenbacker was the opening of the song, which is instantly recognizable. As soon as you hear it, you know it’s the opening to A Hard Days Night. That chord is also part of the logo created by Shannon for the Hard Day’s Night Hotel.
Artwork painted and owned by ©SHANNON
A HARD DAY'S NIGHT - THE SINGLE (ROOM 210)
When Brian announced that the band would begin work on their first feature film, The Beatles were given just 2 weeks after their first trip to America in which to record seven new songs for ‘A Hard Days Night’! To make matters worse, EMI decided that the film could in fact become the basis for their new album. With ‘Can’t Buy Me Love’ recently recorded in Paris, The Beatles were now challenged to find even more songs to complete a thirteen-song album. Miraculously not only did they do so, and to an amazingly high standard, they did it by recording the whole album with Lennon-McCartney originals. This was unheard of! Their first two albums broke the mould as the band wrote half of the songs on each of ‘Please Please Me’ and ‘With The Beatles’. Bands just didn’t do that in those days, they had professional songwriters do that for them. But The Beatles were different and A Hard Days Night was a quantum leap forward, with 13 new original Lennon/McCartney compositions. Their output was prodigious at this point. Although all credited to Lennon/McCartney, ten of the thirteen were largely John’s work and never again would a Beatle so dominate an album. The film had a working title of ‘Beatlemania’ but with such a punishing work schedule Ringo remarked after one session “It’s been a Hard Days Night”! A typical Ringoism, it was quickly picked up by the others and became the title of a film, a single and an album!
The opening G suspended 4 chord on George’s new 12 string Rickenbacker was the opening of the song, which is instantly recognizable. As soon as you hear it, you know it’s the opening to A Hard Days Night. That chord is also part of the logo created by Shannon for the Hard Day’s Night Hotel.
Artwork painted and owned by ©SHANNON