![]() ![]() In America, the Hard Day’s Night album was released with eight songs and four instrumental tracks. Their stellar group performance on “And I Love Her” proved that the Beatles were well versed in many styles of music – not just 3 chord, rock and roll songs. The song contains a beautiful classical guitar solo performed by George on a Ramirez guitar given to him by their friend Klaus Voorman. It had a Latin flavor with Ringo playing bongos and George playing claves (a percussion instrument). One Lennon/McCartney song written for the film, “And I Love Her,” was the first Beatles song to be performed with only acoustic instruments. The new songs showed how quickly Lennon and McCartney were evolving as songwriters. Seven new songs, including the title cut, appeared in A Hard Day’s Night along with previously released Beatles music. But what was truly remarkable was that the Beatles wrote all the songs for the film. ![]() As we all know, the Beatles took a different approach with A Hard Day’s Night, creating a cinematic masterpiece that changed cinema forever.Ī Hard Day’s Night’s storyline and cinematography, as well as the Beatles comedic performances, helped to make the film a classic. Music films in those early years were seen as a way for studios to cash in on the rock and roll craze (while it still lasted) with songs and performances that had nothing to do with their silly plots. It was near the end of 1963 when the Beatles were first approached about starring in their first film. ![]()
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