TITLE:  THE BEATLES-A HARD DAY's NIGHT

Label: PARLOPHONE RECORDS

Catalogue number: PMC 1230

The matrices: XEX 481 -3N

                      XEX 481 -3N    

Year : 1964

Details of the specific copy:Fantastic copy there only very few papres scuffs keep from call it near mint!

condition: (VISUAL GRADING most of times)

The Sleeve : EXCELLENT PLUS  Very solid.

• Front Side  : light bends of the laminate near the spine , light creasing too.  

•   Back Side : Nice and clean light yelowing and creasing near the opening. not any writing, not any other wear   

•   Spine: perfect, no edgewear, no bends , fully readbale, Solid.

•   Edges; No any edgewear or bend. perfect

The Labels: All labels are prerfectly clear with no spindle marks or writing or creasing.

The Vinyls : Both vinyls looks like have been played  very carefully EXCELLENT PLUS at least. This is a

brilliant copy to anjoy the original mono sound!

         A side: EX+-Very few  papers scuffs only, jet black shiny not any single feelable scratch.    

         B Side: EX++ maybe NM Very few  papers scuffs only, jet black shiny not any single feelable scratch.

 The inner sleeves: plain white perfect

 

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Released 10 July 1964 Recorded 29 January, 25–27 February,1 March & 1–4 June 1964,
EMI Studios, London, and Pathé Marconi Studios, Paris Genre Rock, pop, rock and roll Length 30:45 Label Parlophone Producer George Martin

A Hard Day's Night is the third studio album by The Beatles, released on 10 July 1964 as the soundtrack to their film A Hard Day's Night. The American version of the album was released two weeks earlier, on 26 June 1964 by United Artists Records, with a different track listing. It was eventually replaced by the original United Kingdom version with its first release on CD and LP re-release, 26 February 1987.

While showcasing the development of the band's songwriting talents, the album sticks to the basic rock and roll instrumentation and song format. The album contains some of their most famous songs, including the title track and its distinct, instantly recognisable opening chord;[1] and "Can't Buy Me Love", both were transatlantic number one singles for the band. The album and film are said to portray the classic image of the Beatles, as it was released at the height of Beatlemania.

The title of the album was the accidental creation of drummer Ringo Starr.[2] According to Lennon in a 1980 interview with Playboy magazine: "I was going home in the car and Dick Lester [director of the movie] suggested the title, 'Hard Day's Night' from something Ringo had said. I had used it in 'In His Own Write', but it was an off-the-cuff remark by Ringo. You know, one of those malapropisms. A Ringo-ism, where he said it not to be funny... just said it. So Dick Lester said, 'We are going to use that title.'"[3]

In 2000, Q placed A Hard Day's Night at number five in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever.[4] In 2003, the album was ranked number 388 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.[5]

[edit]Contents and releases

Side one of the LP contains the songs from the movie soundtrack. Side two contains songs written for, but not included in, the film, although a 1980s re-release of the movie includes a prologue before the opening credits with "I'll Cry Instead" on the soundtrack.

A Hard Day's Night is the first Beatles album to feature entirely original compositions, and the only one where all the songs were written byJohn Lennon and Paul McCartney.[6] Normally, Paul McCartney and Lennon would contribute a roughly equal number of songs to each album, but A Hard Day's Night is the one Beatles album on which Lennon's dominance as songwriter is by far the greater, being the primary writer of 9 of the 13 tracks on the album, and co-writing only one song with McCartney (I'm Happy Just to Dance with You). This is also one of three Beatles albums, along with Let It Be and Magical Mystery Tour, in which Starr does not sing lead vocal on any songs. Starr sang the lead vocal on "Matchbox", a cover of a Carl Perkins song recorded contemporaneously with the songs on "A Hard Day's Night" and released in Britain on the Long Tall Sally EP.

This is the first Beatles album to be recorded entirely on four-track tape, allowing for good stereo mixes. Despite this, until 2009, the Compact Disc release of this album (catalogue number CDP 7 46437 2) was available only in mono, though many of the tracks appeared in stereo on CD for the first time with the release of the boxset The Capitol Albums, Volume 1 in 2004. Three tracks from the album were issued in stereo on the 1962–1966 compilation.

On 26 February 1987, A Hard Day's Night was officially released on CD in mono, as were three other of the Beatles' albums, Please Please Me, With the Beatles, and Beatles for Sale. Having been available only as an import in the US in the past, the 13 track UK version of the album was also issued in the US on LP and cassette on 21 July 1987. Stereo mixes of "A Hard Day's Night", "Can't Buy Me Love" and "And I Love Her" are available on the 1962–1966 CD.

On 9 September 2009, a remastered version of this album was released and was the first time the album appeared in stereo on CD in its entirety. This album is also included in The Beatles Stereo Box Set. A remastered mono version of the original UK album was part of The Beatles in Mono box set.[7]

[edit]Track listing

All tracks credited to Lennon/McCartney.

Side one No. Title Lead vocals Length 1. "A Hard Day's Night"   Lennon with McCartney 2:34 2. "I Should Have Known Better"   Lennon 2:43 3. "If I Fell"   Lennon and McCartney 2:19 4. "I'm Happy Just to Dance with You"   Harrison 1:56 5. "And I Love Her"   McCartney 2:30 6. "Tell Me Why"   Lennon 2:09 7. "Can't Buy Me Love"   McCartney 2:12 Side two No. Title Lead vocals Length 1. "Any Time at All"   Lennon 2:11 2. "I'll Cry Instead"   Lennon 1:46 3. "Things We Said Today"   McCartney 2:35 4. "When I Get Home"   Lennon 2:17 5. "You Can't Do That"   Lennon 2:35 6. "I'll Be Back"   Lennon, with McCartney 2:24

[edit]Sales chart positions

Year Chart Position 1965 Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart 1 2009 Finnish Albums Chart 27[8]

[edit][edit]Personnel

According to Mark Lewisohn[10]

The Beatles

• George Harrison – lead guitar (six- and 12-string); acoustic and Spanish guitars; background vocals; lead vocals on "I'm Happy Just to Dance with You"; harmony vocal on "Things We Said Today" and claves on "And I Love Her"
• John Lennon – lead, harmony, and background vocals; rhythm and acoustic guitars; harmonica; lead guitar on "You Can't Do That"; piano on "Things We Said Today" and tambourine
• Paul McCartney – lead, harmony, and background vocals; bass guitar and piano; acoustic guitar on "I'll Be Back"
• Ringo Starr – drums, cowbell, maracas and tambourine

Additional musicians

• George Martin – piano

[edit]Cultural influence

According to music critic Richie Unterberger, "George Harrison's resonant 12-string electric guitar leads were hugely influential; the movie helped persuade The Byrds, then folksingers, to plunge all out into rock & roll, and the Beatles would be hugely influential on the folk-rock explosion of 1965. The Beatles' success, too, had begun to open the US market for fellow Brits like the Rolling Stones, the Animals, and the Kinks, and inspired young American groups like the Beau Brummels, Lovin' Spoonful, and others to mount a challenge of their own with self-penned material that owed a great debt to Lennon-McCartney."[11]

 

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