HELP! THE MOVIE (ROOM 220)
HELP! THE MOVIE (ROOM 220)
As with Hard Days Night the year before, John was able, once again, to write to order, and his new song “Help!” became the new single, album title, and the name of their 2nd film. After the success of their first film it was inevitable that their second would be a more lavish affair with bigger budgets for promotion and production with the US market in mind. It was shot in full color. However, although commercially successful, it did not receive the same critical acclaim that its predecessor did.
The single was released in July 1965 and the album duly followed two weeks later. Sandwiched between, was the London premiere of the film at London Pavilion attended by Princess Margaret. Sales of single, album, and film alike, were phenomenal and there were no signs at all that Beatlemania was on the wane. The Beatles and John in particular were getting increasingly frustrated by all of the hysteria, and were finding more satisfaction in the studio recording, rather than the never ending other external pressures and demands that were omnipresent. John’s song writing was taking a different direction on Help and Paul had written his first classic in ‘Yesterday’. George meanwhile had experienced his first hands on encounter with a sitar during the filming of ‘Help’ (in the Indian restaurant scene), which was to take him in yet another direction. Increasingly bored with the role of teeny pop idols, the individual Beatles were looking for more meaningful direction, which they invariably found via their maturing and developing song writing.
Artwork painted and owned by ©SHANNON
HELP! THE MOVIE (ROOM 220)
As with Hard Days Night the year before, John was able, once again, to write to order, and his new song “Help!” became the new single, album title, and the name of their 2nd film. After the success of their first film it was inevitable that their second would be a more lavish affair with bigger budgets for promotion and production with the US market in mind. It was shot in full color. However, although commercially successful, it did not receive the same critical acclaim that its predecessor did.
The single was released in July 1965 and the album duly followed two weeks later. Sandwiched between, was the London premiere of the film at London Pavilion attended by Princess Margaret. Sales of single, album, and film alike, were phenomenal and there were no signs at all that Beatlemania was on the wane. The Beatles and John in particular were getting increasingly frustrated by all of the hysteria, and were finding more satisfaction in the studio recording, rather than the never ending other external pressures and demands that were omnipresent. John’s song writing was taking a different direction on Help and Paul had written his first classic in ‘Yesterday’. George meanwhile had experienced his first hands on encounter with a sitar during the filming of ‘Help’ (in the Indian restaurant scene), which was to take him in yet another direction. Increasingly bored with the role of teeny pop idols, the individual Beatles were looking for more meaningful direction, which they invariably found via their maturing and developing song writing.
Artwork painted and owned by ©SHANNON
HELP! THE MOVIE (ROOM 220)
As with Hard Days Night the year before, John was able, once again, to write to order, and his new song “Help!” became the new single, album title, and the name of their 2nd film. After the success of their first film it was inevitable that their second would be a more lavish affair with bigger budgets for promotion and production with the US market in mind. It was shot in full color. However, although commercially successful, it did not receive the same critical acclaim that its predecessor did.
The single was released in July 1965 and the album duly followed two weeks later. Sandwiched between, was the London premiere of the film at London Pavilion attended by Princess Margaret. Sales of single, album, and film alike, were phenomenal and there were no signs at all that Beatlemania was on the wane. The Beatles and John in particular were getting increasingly frustrated by all of the hysteria, and were finding more satisfaction in the studio recording, rather than the never ending other external pressures and demands that were omnipresent. John’s song writing was taking a different direction on Help and Paul had written his first classic in ‘Yesterday’. George meanwhile had experienced his first hands on encounter with a sitar during the filming of ‘Help’ (in the Indian restaurant scene), which was to take him in yet another direction. Increasingly bored with the role of teeny pop idols, the individual Beatles were looking for more meaningful direction, which they invariably found via their maturing and developing song writing.
Artwork painted and owned by ©SHANNON