Tag: a hard day’s night
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106: You Can’t Do That
You Can’t Do That, written by John Lennon, was the B-side of the Can’t Buy Me Love single and was included on the A Hard Day’s Night album. You Can’t Do That – recorded in early 1964 – can be seen as the start of a sequence of songs in which Lennon’s lyrics deal with…
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112: Things We Said Today
Things We Said Today is a track from the A Hard Day’s Night album, and was the B-Side to the single release of A Hard Day’s Night, too. Written by Paul McCartney, it is a particularly cleverly crafted song and all the more so because it wears its sophistication very lightly; this is a classically…
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116: I Should Have Known Better
I Should Have Known Better is a track from the A Hard Day’s Night soundtrack and album, written by John Lennon. It’s taken me a few days to get around to writing this article, and partly this was because I fancied taking a couple of days off, but I must admit it was partly because…
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139: Tell Me Why
Tell Me Why is a song from the Hard Day’s Night soundtrack and was written for a particular scene in the movie where the Beatles were performing in front of an audience at the Scala Theatre in London. John Lennon, who wrote the song said “They needed another upbeat song and I just knocked it…
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144: A Hard Day’s Night
A Hard Day’s Night was the opening title song of the Beatles’ eponymous first film, appearing first on the soundtrack album and also released as a single. The song was written by John Lennon, overnight on 13th April 1964, after the film’s director Dick Lester had chosen its title – a malapropism attributed to Ringo…
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145: When I Get Home
When I Get Home is a song written by John Lennon that appears on A Hard Day’s Night. This album came at an interesting time in the Beatles development. In Britain they were already the focus of Beatlemania, an unprecedentedly intense fandom, that meant they were regularly mobbed. The term had been coined towards the…
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158: I’ll Cry Instead
I’ll Cry Instead is a song from the A Hard Day’s Night album, and one of eight on that album written wholly or mainly by John Lennon. Like several other songs of this period it is a well-crafted pop song, but maybe not especially memorable or moving. One sign that it may not have benefitted…
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194: I’m Happy Just To Dance With You
I’m Happy Just To Dance With You is unusual in being a Lennon-McCartney song where the lead vocal is taken by George Harrison. I think it’s one of just two among their official recordings. According to the Beatles Bible, both Lennon and McCartney agreed that it had been written with George in mind. McCartney describes…