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| Length = 30:13 | Label = Parlophone | Producer = George Martin | Last album = ''With the Beatles'' (1963) | This album = ''A Hard Day's Night'' (1964) | Next album = ''Beatles for Sale'' (1964) | Misc = }} ''A Hard Day's Night'' is the third studio album by English rock band the Beatles, 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. This is the first Beatles album to be recorded entirely on four-track tape, allowing for good stereo mixes with the vocals in the centre. 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 the band's songwriting talents. The album contains some of their most famous songs, including the title track, with its distinct, instantly recognisable opening chord, and the previously-released "Can't Buy Me Love"; both were transatlantic number-one singles for the band. The title of the album was the accidental creation of drummer Ringo Starr. According to Lennon in a 1980 interview with ''Playboy'' magazine: "I was going home in the car and Dick Lester (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.'" 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.〔^ Robert Dimery; Michael Lydon (23 March 2010). 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die: Revised and Updated Edition. Universe. ISBN 978-0-7893-2074-2.〕 ==Contents== Musically, ''A Hard Day's Night'' eschews the rock and roll cover songs of the band's previous albums for a predominantly pop sound.〔 Sputnikmusic's Dave Donnelly observes "short, peppy" pop songs characterised by layered vocals, immediate choruses, and understated instrumentation.〔 According to Pitchfork Media's Tom Ewing, the lack of rock and roll covers allows listeners to "take the group's new sound purely on its own modernist terms", with audacious "chord choices", powerful harmonies, "gleaming" guitar, and "Northern" harmonica.〔 Music journalist Robert Christgau writes that Lennon–McCartney's songs were "more sophisticated musically" than before. Side one of the LP contains the songs from the movie soundtrack. Side two contains songs written for, but not included in, the film, although a 1980s re-release of the movie includes a prologue before the opening credits with "I'll Cry Instead" on the soundtrack. ''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. 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「A Hard Day's Night (album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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