THE BEATLES – A Hard Day’s Night (60th Anniversary) [National Album Day 2024] – LP – 180g White Vinyl [NAD 24]

This product is a National Album Day 2024 title, and is available to pre-order from 10am on 12/09/2024.

Available to buy in-store from9am on Saturday,19/10/2024 (National Album Day). The theme this year is ‘Best British Groups’.

The Beatles have announced a special 60th anniversary reissue of their third studio album A Hard Days Night, in celebration of National Album Day. The limited edition reissue on 180g White Vinyl will be released on October 19th.

At a time when popstars either spoke BBC English or tried to emulate the American rockers they so idolised, there was no hiding where The Beatles John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison & Ringo Starr came from: they sang, as they spoke, in a Liverpool accent. Although the demands of the music business meant they soon had to relocate to London, in many ways they never left their city in song and in story, the group are inextricably, indelibly linked to Merseyside.

Recorded between January and June 1964 and released that July, if ever there was a pointer to what an album could achieve, it’s the 13 songs and 31 minutes of A Hard Day’s Night, the third long-player by the Beatles. It is the sound of a group with the wind in its hair, the confidence that their hard work was paying off. The (partial) soundtrack to their first film, at a time when an LP was a collection of recent singles and cover versions, A Hard Days Night was penned solely by Lennon & McCartney. Cant Buy Me Love, the first track from the forthcoming album to be released, topped the US and UK charts in April 1964.

In the 476 days since the release of their debut LP, Please Please Me in March 1963, The Beatles had gone from local to national to international phenomenon. A Hard Days Night, both the beloved 1964 film directed by Richard Lester and the album, captured that rocket in a bottle. With songs about working men going home to their loved ones (the title track, When I Get Home); the exhilaration of early love (I Should Have Known Better, If I Fell, And I Love Her, Im Happy Just To Dance With You); the ups and downs of relationships (Ill Cry Instead, Tell Me Why, You Cant Do That) and, already, a strong sense of time (Things We Said Today), on A Hard Days Night, Lennon & McCartney put words in the mouths of teenagers around the world.

The 60th anniversary reissue of A Hard Days Night will be released on October 19th to celebrate National Album Day.

Tracklist:

Side One
1. A Hard Days Night
2. I Should Have Known Better
3. If I Fell
4. Im Happy Just To Dance With You
5. And I Love Her
6. Tell Me Why
7. Cant Buy Me Love

Side Two
1. Any Time At All
2. Ill Cry Instead
3. Things We Said Today
4. When I Get Home
5. You Cant Do That
6. Ill Be Back