The Beatle’s First Masterpiece! A Hard Day’s Night!

[@accam6734]

In 1980 Lennon claimed he wrote all but the first verse of the lyrics to Eleanor Rigby.

[@MichaelNoland-TheBottomLine]

Great comment, Goku! Yeah, This is one song there is a whole lot of disagreement on for sure! Evidently, it was Ringo who came up with ‘darning his socks while nobody’s there’ line! And even Mal Evans was said to have supplied a line or two! Still, all in all a magnificent Beatle track!

[@garypeacock5919]

Every track is a perfect pop song, absolute classics. Definitely in my top10 albums of all time 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@stephenosullivan9016]

I dare anyone to listen to this album and NOT be in a good mood afterwards! It’s Beatle magic I tell ya!!

[@BruceColon-BSides]

This is their first perfectly-realized album. High-energy, infectious, and tight. The greatest example of early Beatlemania.

[@MichaelNoland-TheBottomLine]

I had to grow to love this album! But I forgot to mention Rock And Roll Music in the video! Now THAT’S a cover! Duh!

[@mysticchordz8846]

I was 8 when my big brother bought this for me, he was 11 years older so my music taste was unlike most 8 year olds. And of course, still have that album😁

[@magneto7930]

Nice review! Paul has since said that George is in fact the one who came up with the guitar riff for And I Love Her. Also, this would be the first album to not feature Ringo on a lead vocal. George sings lead on I'm Happy Just to Dance with You. Great album, I had it when I was a kid. I had the United Artists version of A Hard Day's Night, along with Something New, so that gave me the bulk of the British version.

[@beatledavesbeatleschannel]

Absolutely and most definitely their first masterpiece, it was the first proper Beatles LP I brought after the red & blue. Great stuff Michael!

[@MichaelNoland-TheBottomLine]

Amen to that, Dave! Not a single weak cut on the album! John Lennon at his greatest output level, with only the White Album to challenge it in regard to Lennon’s output!😉

[@easygojunkremoval3564]

Love it! Very good points

[@MichaelNoland-TheBottomLine]

Thank you, kind sir!

[@adamfindlay7091]

Agreed, a lost masterpiece, and pure joy. If I Fell, wonderful.have to say, not many could produce so well under the kind of pressure at that year, worldwide fame etc, lennon and Macca always helped create and buffer each song or at least on some of their songs, maybe not every particular one. Oh yeah loved John's harmonica.

[@podecrer81]

Great review. A hard day’s night was the first album I ever bought.

[@MichaelNoland-TheBottomLine]

You know, Marcelo, A Hard Day’s Night still sounds as fresh as the day it was released! It’s one of their early albums that never aged! Can’t Buy Me Love sounded like a race horse coming out the gate when I first heard it, and it’s still running around the track 58 years later! My favorite early Beatle album with only Please Please Me as a possible contender!👌😉❤️

[@wisamh1976]

What a great channel , keep it up. Love the fact that I still learn new things about the Beatles here

[@sonoftherabbitpeople4737]

I played hookey from school one day in the early 70s, Parents were away so I raided my big sister's record collection. She had "A Hard Day's Night", the red one... and Rubber Soul. I became a hard-core Beatles fan that day.

[@MichaelNoland-TheBottomLine]

I always thought that hokey was why they invented school rabbit! ❤️😉👍

[@sonoftherabbitpeople4737]

@@MichaelNoland-TheBottomLine It must have been. I got pretty good at that subject.

[@artguti1551]

I totally agree...HDN is on the level of Pepper at the time. I Love this album and it is the top 3 faves of my Beatle albums!

[@48musicfan]

A Hard Days Night has a very mature sound compared to the first two albums, IMO.

[@Scotttyist]

Controversial statement about John's harmonica on I Should Have Known Better given that I'm A Loser was still to come out in late 1964. Good video BTW

[@thomasdematteo2281]

You did not mention "I should have known better" or "I'll be back"

[@jaybee9269]

I’ve been diving into your Beatles videos, man. Good stuff. There’s a wrong number I believe. I think Sgt. Pepper was treated with MASSIVE amounts of EQ rather than none. Martin even said so. Paul’s bass is certainly over-equalized like the bass on “Good Vibrations.”

[@danguarino1045]

It is highly doubtful United Artists would offer ANYBODY 25% of any of their films. Take a look. Did they offer ANY of their major box office stars that? What UA really wanted was the rights to a soundtrack album, which they hoped to cash in on before the whole 'Beatle craze' went away. That's why they filmed A Hard day's Night in much cheaper black and white , and shot it on the cheap and on the quick. The rush was on to get it in theatres and to make bucks off the soundtrack before this fad all blew over. Also people like to pick on Brian for his supposed lack of business acumen. Um, do we forget that if it not for his vision when first seeing the Beatles and his dogged work in getting them into bigger and bigger places, there would be no worldwide Beatles phenomenon? One that continues to thrive, even up to today. Oh, and a musical and moneymaking force that created the music industry as we know it today? Who played stadiums before? Nobody. Who sold records like this before? Nobody. When Brian said, "They are going to be bigger than Elvis," that was his belief and his artistic and business brilliance right there. Oh, also he got UA to sign the Beatles for a 4 picture deal! Where other managers saw dollar signs and ripped off their clients, Brian saw his as artists and by all accounts was always honest, honorable and fair in his dealings. No matter how big they got. One more thing about his supposed business 'failures'; Nobody had ever done this kind of business before. So what template was there? This man was going out as a pioneer. And believe me, this was not a time where an artist or a manager had the upperhand and could dictate their terms to any record or film company. They would poltitely tell you to take their terms or shove the f___ off. Very easy for everyone who comes after, especially now 'knowing' the Beatles would be such a big success to say, 'Oh, I could have done better.' But you didn't. What Brian saw, the belief that he and the Beatles held, their collective stubborness and hard work, that's what blazed a trail that NOBODY had ever seen before and that everyone after followed. So bold was it, so visionary, that that trail is still blazing.

[@garywohlgemuth3916]

This was never one of my favorite albums. Im not sure why.