The Beatles "A Hard Day's Night Parlophone PMC 1230 Mono UK 1st press 3N/3N 1964
£
15
$
19
Favourite Auctions
To save auctions to your favourites, please login
If you don't have an account, please register
Description
The Beatles ? "A Hard Day's Night" Parlophone ? PMC 1230 UK 1st pressing
Mono Vinyl, LP, released in a Garrod & Lofthouse sleeve in 1964. The vinyl is housed in and 'Emitex' inner sleeve.
The vinyl has lots of surface marks which produce a bit of crackle during the intros, between tracks and in some quieter passages. The LP does, however, play all the way through on my stereo with no hop, stick or jump. The sleeve shows some wear front and back but it is intact - no writing or rips. The spine is intact and completely legible. The vinyl is housed in its original 'Emitex' inner sleeve. Matrix / Runout Side One : XEX 481 - 3N Matrix / Runout Side Two : XEX 482 - 3N
"A Hard Day's Night" is the Beatles' third studio album, released on 10 July 1964, with side one containing songs from 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. In contrast to their first two albums, all 13 tracks on "A Hard Day's Night" were written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney showcasing the development of their songwriting talents. The album includes the title track, with its distinct opening chord, and the previously released "Can't Buy Me Love", both transatlantic number-one singles for the band.
The title of the album was the accidental creation of drummer Ringo Starr. According to John 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."
"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 by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Lennon dominates the songwriting, being the primary author of nine out of the thirteen tracks on the album, as well as being the lead singer on these same nine tracks (although McCartney sings lead on the chorus part of the title track which otherwise is strictly Lennon territory). Lennon and McCartney co-wrote "I'm Happy Just to Dance with You", while McCartney wrote "And I Love Her", "Can't Buy Me Love", and "Things We Said Today". 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" during the sessions; it appeared instead on the "Long Tall Sally" EP.
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 English bands 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."
In 2000, Q placed "A Hard Day's Night" at number five in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. In 2012, "A Hard Day's Night" was voted 307th on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time". The album was included in Robert Dimery's 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.
price rating
