It's finally here: the A Hard Day's Night sessions documentary! Please like and share the video to help with the algorithm, and subscribe for more documentaries like this. Enjoy! 👍 I made an oopsie at 1:07:26 when I said _"learning towards"_ when I meant to say _"leaning towards."_ 🤣 Mea culpa.
I was 13 at the time A Hard Days Night came out. The perfect age at the perfect time. How lucky I feel that I was at the right age to enjoy the experience of Beatle mania. I'm 73 now and still enjoy their music as much as I did when I was 13. If I Fell is my favorite early Beatle tune. I learned how to play it on my J160E years ago. Its such feel good love ballad.
I'm from Australia and I was 14 when A Hard Days Night came out. I didn't see them when they came to Australia but my friend Norm did and he said you couldn't hear anything for the screaming of the girls. RIP John and George
I too was 13 when 'A Hard Day's NIght" came out and growing up in Sydney. At the theatre at Pitt St. where I saw the film, the screaming was so bad that I walked out in disgust. Also the Beatles' Liverpudlian accents were so thick I couldn't understand a word they were saying (between screams). Later, when I could understand them and I saw the film again, I didn't see it as a Beatles film but a Dick Lester film. Brilliant Director.
Gus! Absolutely loved this documentary!!!!! Outstanding I love the break down of each song. And how the movie behind the scenes came together! Best Beatles documentary I have watched in years! Awesome Hard work! Great job and thank you 😊
I remember being a 7 year old kid waiting for weeks to see this movie. When the time came I had to wait in a long line at our local theater in Chicago with my sisters and their friends. When we finally got in I could not hear a thing as the girls all screamed the WHOLE movie. The girls acted like the Beatles were actually in the building. They were nuts!!! I do not think anybody now a days can believe just how big the Beatles were back then.
A friend told me he'd seen the film at a matinee performance full of girls screaming--he went home with his ears ringing. A day later he went to an evening performance, no teen girls.
That was really good. Over the years I've watched just about everything about the Beatles that I could get my hands on, but I had never heard a lot of the interviews by the boys that you have here. There are some really cool and insightful bits. Well done. Peace.
Great, professionally made documentary. It terms of great songs, I think a hard days night is their best album and as a result the best album ever made by anyone. Its John's album alright and it show cases him, on top form and pre the drugs, psychedelic later years. Its the fab four at their pinnacle. In some ways John was running ahead of the pack at this stage, how could any one touch him in this form. It took till pepper for Paul to become the dominant force. Don't forget the abbey road team also. Norman Smith became a top producer and pop star in his own right. When he had the smash hit with baby i know in the early 70s, Lennon was gobsmacked, he thought Norman was so boring he called him "Normal Norman". The ballads alone on the album are out of this world.
I should have known better has always been one of my favorites Beatles tracks. What an album. I’m very lucky to have my dad’s original collection of Beatles records from when he was a kid in England in the 60s
I didn't particularly want to watch this as im a rubber soul and onwards man and held off for a week ...... It's the best piece of work you've ever done. It's absolutely amazing. Thank you .
They actually performed songs on record, playing and singing w minimal mistakes. Take after take. George Martin's production was perfect for their sound. It was a perfect storm.
A Hard Day's Night is essential not only if you're a Beatles fan but also if you like jukebox films and the cinema in general. I consider myself all three.
I used to think you were just overdramatizing your past videos but like maybe I was just being bitter bc I love your vibe and you put so so much work into this video much appreciated❤️
Most serious songwriters view 'Modulations' or 'Key changes' as a lazy way to propel or pad out a song. I have heard Macca say as much. So, when Paul says it was George Martin who suggested the 1/2 step up modulation for the guitar solo in And I Love Her, I tend to believe him. George Martin came from the Tin Pan Alley era of songwriting. A time when modulations were used with far more frequently. Paul and John virtually never put key changes in their songs. They saw it as a hackneyed practice. Penny Lane and You're Going to Lose That Girl have key changes written in to the songs chord structures. The only 3 Beatles songs I recall using this "old school' trope are 1) The a Capela call/response vocals at the end of Good Day Sunshine (1/2 step up E to F) 2) Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - Reprise (1 full step-up F to G) 3) the final 2 chords of George Harrisons 'Piggies'. (1/2 step up Aflat to Eflat). This last one is open to interpretation. Great job B B. Those 87 minutes flew by. Cheers, RNB
Ab to Eb is a fourth, not a semitone . The other thing on “ Good Day Sunshine “ . Yes it goes up a semitones on outro, but it’s not a call response, it’s Paul singing a “ round “ a very classical borrowed idea . “ And I Love Her “ modulation from E to F chordally, bringing the song to key of G minor sets up the ending of the song, it was some lazy hack bit of an arrangement. As this was an acoustic guitar song it made sense as you can hear when there are open strings. Ending in a D major made perfect sense . To me * it sounds like it may also have an interval harmonic on the G,and B strings in the seventh fret - which makes total sense - when the D major is played as the outro. * I have not listened to the song min quite some time so I may be mistaken on the harmonic being played simultaneously under the D major chord in the mix.
@@jacquescousteau217 Hi jacques. Piggies natural key of the verse goes from G to D. The quirky outro shifts up a half step to Aflat and lands on an Eflat. I also said that was up for interpretation. As for the GD S "call/response". I felt this was an easier way for the non musicuan to understand my reference. But I believe you understood the gist of my comment. I could've said echo phrasing. I just felt call/response was easier to digest. I certainly didn't mean to ruffle any feathers. This is only a comment section after all, not a symposium on music theory Cheers. RNB
@@themamat I personally would include "Bill" and "Lucy" in the same catagory as Penny Lane and Lose That Girl. The "key change' is a product of the song chordal flow. Not added to the song along the way for musical propulsion or padding. RNB
I'm glad channels like this exist. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Are you aware of the Mike(Sage of Quay)Williams channel? He claims as "fact" that The Beatles did not write any of their own material before 1967 and session musicians were used because they were musically inept. It's absolute nonsense of course. He claims they were far too busy touring to have the time to write. (He quotes 75% of their time was taken up with "live" performances"). There is no way they were performing for 75% of the time. They were doing shows that lasted barely 20 minutes! There are countless photos floating around the internet that show them taking holidays individually and this shows they weren't on the go 24/7. Why does Mike Williams say session musicians were used to get the job done quickly then go on to say "A Hard Days Night" took a 125 days to make? Real Beatle fans Know it took just over a week. One of the many devious things he has done is to show a photo of The Beatles looking at pages of script and pass it off as them learning the lyrics to songs already written for them. I could go on about some more of his ridiculous "theories,claims and research" etc,but I won't.Once again,thanks for a very entertaining and honest documentary.
@@BeatlesBible1 It's his constant sullying of The Beatles I find annoying. He offers absolutely no proof whatsoever for his claims that they didn't write or play on any of their early albums bit tends to state this as "fact". It beggars belief also the amount of people who hang on to his every word. There is a channel here on RU-vid: "Peter Duncan (a rebuttal to Mike Williams) which shows how deviousMike Williams really is.
At 25:14, behind John's hand is, I think the Dakota Building, which sits opposite Central Park West. Years later John & Yoko would move and reside there.
The often stated idea, in this case stated by Paul, that the Beatles had decided not to go to the U.S. until they had a #1 record in the U.S., is belied by the fact that both the Ed Sullivan appearance(s) as well as the Carnegie Hall shows were scheduled back in November 1963 during Brian Epstein's trip to New York. I Want to Hold Your Hand went to #1 in the U.S. in January 1964 just a few weeks before their scheduled U.S. trip. It was one of the dominoes that fell right at the exact time, and not something that they had any control over. Although I think (but I'm not sure) that Brian decided it was time to try and get them on U.S. television only after he knew that Capitol was planning to release I Want To Hold Your Hand at the end of December.
I was 13 when Help! was released. After seeing it, I told myself, I like the movie A Hard Days Night better but I prefer the songs from Help! From someone on the outside looking in, I thought AHDN was done very well regardless of the internal criticisms.
Great video! The entire song "A Hard Day's Night" is not mixolydian, the first part is, but some of it is just G major, like when the chords go C to D, and the melody there hits F#, that is no longer mixolydian, also the bridge when it hits Bm, not mixolydian anymore and also the melody has the flat 3rd blue note in there Bb, great song. I think part of what makes the song great is how the modes change from mixolydian to major etc
No; most songs from 1962-67 were actually co-written by Lennon and McCartney. However, the common rule is that the song is mostly that Beatles' tune if that Beatle sung it.
@@BeatlesBible1You’re wrong. Lennon wrote “If I Fell”, ALONE, with no assistance from Paul in it’s composition. Paul’s Q Magazine claim to co-authorship, that he composed the intro, has been 100% and conclusively debunked. It’s shameful that the Beatles Bible continues to give Paul’s false narratives oxygen: you repeat this same falsehood on your site. For the sake of the truth and history, you need to correct your error. You’ve been alerted to this repeatedly now! Be BETTER!
VERY GOOD VIDEO. EXCELLENT DOCUMENTAL .BUT YOU.FORGOT TO MENTION THE OTHER TWO SONGS RECORDED DURING THOSE SESSIONS ,MATCHBOX Y SLOW DOWN. HAVE GOOD.😴😴
I felt the Beatles most creative period was from the beginning until revolver. After that it just wasn't the same even though they did some creative stuff.
Bro. This is an absolutely gorgeously composed and edited doc. Super informative and inspiring. My only issue is that you didn’t edit out the breaths you take between sentences. It sounds ridiculous to say. But once you hear it, you can’t unhear it. And it ends up being insanely distracting and frustrating to listen to. Anyway, great job overall.
Very enjoyable and informative. Thanks for your hard work making this. Only slightly annoying thing was hearing Paul taking credit for yet more Lennon songs!
Music documentaries without rights to play any of the music being discussed seems to be a regular thing on RU-vid, especially with the Beatles. I think it is absurd. It’s like watching an art historian lecture on the Mona Lisa without ever showing a picture of the painting. Sure the information can be interesting, but the enduring frustration from the musical silence is too painful. And this for 90 minutes! 34:45
Paul is lying. "If I Fell" was written by John Lennon 100%. There exists an early demo, before John ever presented it to the band or brought it into the studio, of John playing the complete song in a bathroom (to create natural "reverb"). McCartney had nothing to do with the writing of this song, aside from later participating in the two-part vocal harmony arrangement.
Typical Paul. Never said much about If I Fell when John was alive, now he taking credit for the opening intro even though John’s home demos shows John had the entire song including the opening intro.
George didn’t just come up with the “And I Love Her” riff. He “nicked” it note for note either consciously or unconsciously from “The Honeymoon Song” by Marino Marini which they recorded on July 16, 1963 for their BBC radio show, “Pop Goes The Beatles”.
@@TheAerovons Perhaps but it’s the exact same notes: B, E, Eb, and C# in a very similar rhythm. It’s not totally impossible. I mean the dude was sued for unconsciously plagiarizing “He’s So Fine” by the Chiffons on “My Sweet Lord” so there’s already a precedent there. I mean there’s nothing new under the sun anyway and it doesn’t take away from the mans genius, it’s just interesting to trace the influence.
@24:00 it kills me that these guys are the least accurate historical source of their own careers than anybody.🤦 it was handy, convenient & extremely fortunate that they had a no.1 hit in the US on the heels of their arrival in the states. the reality is no.1 or not, they were booked to go back in 10 or 11/63. probably before the no.1 they earned was even written.. it is a good story though.
Paul told Q magazine that “If I Fell” was co-written and that he wrote the intro. That’s false. The Beatles Bible takes Paul at his word, both here and on their web site, (never a good idea), and they don't properly evaluate the conclusive evidence to the contrary. John wrote the entire song in a different key on a guitar tuned down a whole step. Those original chords for the intro are seen at the bottom of the page of his handwritten draft of another one of his solo efforts: "I'm Happy Just To Dance With You." And, he recorded a home demo in that different key as well (which was a bit too high for him to sing). He recalled specifically writing the intro (which he wrote separately) inspired by songs from the 1940s that routinely featured them. Most conclusively is the fact that it’s a solo home demo. No song, co-written by John & Paul, was ever recorded in home demo form. Their many recorded demos, without exception, are all solo efforts. The different key in composition confirms it’s a solo effort. Later, together, they lowered the key, relative to standard pitch, by a half step to turn it into a 2-part harmony ballad and Paul was instrumental in creating that arrangement (John’s lower harmony). So, Paul deserves arranging plaudits; but, not songwriting credit. It’s annoying that Paul has been cadging songwriting credit where it is not warranted in his dotage…Thankfully, in most cases, that can be corrected by reference to the many home demos and the original song manuscripts…very few remain in dispute but, given Paul's false revisionist claims in Barry Miles's "Many Years From Now," there do need to be further corrections to the record...
Note: While the name of the film truly is "A Hard Day's Night", when speaking of the film with its title, it's not necessary to say "the A Hard Day's Night" every time.
Music documentaries without rights to play any of the music being discussed seems to be a regular thing on RU-vid, especially with the Beatles. I think it is absurd. It’s like watching an art historian lecture on the Mona Lisa without ever showing a picture of the painting. Sure the information can be interesting, but the enduring frustration from the musical silence is too painful. And this for 90 minutes!
