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A Hard Day's Night is the third studio album by The Beatles, released on 10 July 1964, with side one containing songs from the soundtrack to their film A Hard Day's Night. 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 contains some of their most famous songs, including the title track, with its distinct, instantly recognisable opening chord, and the previously-released "Can't Buy Me Love"; both were transatlantic number-one singles for the band.

Since probably all of the Beatles-albums reached number 1 on the UK Album Chart (and a lot of them, the american), I leave that out from now on. Actually, it's of absolutely no importance to me, if an album hits the number spot or not. The most important thing is, if I personally like the album, and I REALLY like this album. If you devide The Beatles in "before and after Rubber Soul", this is the very best album of the periode before Rubber Soul. Besides the two mentioned songs, this album is full of good early Beatles-songs. If you only want to buy one Beatles-album from the early periode, this is the one. Another thing: Lennon was delievering a lot of good songs around this time. Imo, Lennon may have made most of the best songs from 62-65, but then McCartney took over in more than one meaning. Sure the songwriting-credits says "Lennon/McCartney" and in the very start, they wrote a lot of the songs together, but you can probably asume, that when Paul sings lead, it's mostly his song and when John sings...Well, you get the picture. What is your opinion of A Hard Days Night, the album?

Singles/EP around this time: "Can't Buy Me Love/You Can't Do That" (20 March 1964), The Long Tall Sally EP: "Long Tall Sally/I Call Your Name/Slowdown/Matchbox" (19 June 1964)


A few useless informations:
Kurt Cobain loved "If I Fell" and performed it in concert every time there was a technical problem.


In the documentary filmed in 2011 by MartinScorsese, "George Harrison: Living In The Material
World", McCartney revealed that George was the author of the guitar riff on "And I Love Her".


Album Ranking:

1. A Hard Days Night

2. Please Please Me

3. With The Beatles

Niels' Ultimate Beatles Playlist:

1. I Saw Her Standing

2. Love Me Do

3. Please Please Me

4. She Loves You

5. All My Loving

6. I Want To Hold You Hand

7. A Hard Days Night

8. I Should Had Known Better

9. If I Fell

10. And I Love Her

11. Can't Buy Me Love

12. Anytime At All

13. Things We Said Today

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Agree totally with your assessment.  This is by far the best selection of songs, although it still feels like just that.  A bunch of singles on an album.  But they are terrific songs.  I don't have the booklet with me so no additional fun facts from me. And so far, our album ranking matches up, but I don't think that will last for long.

Running Album Ranking:

1. A Hard Days Night

2. Please Please Me

3. With The Beatles

RJ's Ultimate Beatles Playlist:

1. I Saw Her Standing There

2. Please Please Me

3. Love Me Do

4. Do You Want To Know A Secret

5. A Taste Of Honey

6. From Me To You

7. She Loves You

8. I Want To Hold Your Hand

9. All My Loving

10. Can't Buy Me Love

11. You Can't Do That

12. A Hard Day's Night

13. I Should Have Known Better

14. If I Fell

15. And I Love Her

16. Can't Buy Me Love

17. Things We Said Today

18. You Can't Do That

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