A Hard Day's Night

by The Beatles

A Hard Day's Night cover art

As the first Beatles album to feature entirely original material, 'A Hard Day's Night' represents a significant evolution in the Lennon-McCartney songwriting partnership, leaving behind rock and roll covers for a more sophisticated, urgent pop sound. The album is defined by energetic, layered vocal harmonies and the bright, chiming tone of George Harrison's Rickenbacker 12-string electric guitar, a sound which became profoundly influential on the emerging jangle-pop and folk-rock movements. Serving as the soundtrack to the band's film of the same name, the recording captures the vibrant peak of early Beatlemania.

Genres

  • Pop Rock
  • Merseybeat
  • Rock & Roll

Tracklist

  1. A Hard Day's Night
  2. I Should Have Known Better
  3. If I Fell
  4. I'm Happy Just To Dance With You
  5. And I Love Her
  6. Tell Me Why
  7. Can't Buy Me Love
  8. Any Time At All
  9. I'll Cry Instead
  10. Things We Said Today
  11. When I Get Home
  12. You Can't Do That
  13. I'll Be Back