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Part 3 of our Revisiting The Beatles series dives into A Hard Day’s Night. We start at the end of the record, which houses some of the more lyrically interesting tracks, while then working back to the big hits.
Links
— Soundtrack release of “A Hard Day’s Night”
— “Love Me Do!: Beatles Progress” available on Kindle
— “The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions” by Mark Lewisohn
— “A Hard Day’s Night” lyrics on the birthday card
— Theories on the opening chord
— Playboy interview in which John Lennon references a pattern of violence
— Blackstreet’s cover of “Can’t Buy Me Love.” It’s not a straight cover, but lines are borrowed.
— Kurt Cobain’s cover of “And I Love Her.”
— Tom Ewing’s review of “A Hard Day’s Night.”
— The Beatles “Rock ‘n’ Roll Music” that cohost Alan referenced
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