Archäologie (CCCXXX): It was Fifty Years Ago These Days - A Hard Day’s Night
Vorbemerkung zur Zeitwahrnehmung und zur Konstruktion von Historizität:
Es ist ja zur Zeit überall von der Juli-Krise 1914 und vom Ersten Weltkrieg die Rede. Wenn man Zeitläufte selbst miterlebt, scheint es einem, als sei zB das Erscheinen von A Hard Days Night doch so lange noch gar nicht her. Wenn man aber das als halbe Distanz zum 1. Weltkrieg und als nicht einmal 20 Jahre nach Ende des 2. Weltkriegs wahrnimmt, relativiert sich der Eindruck, man habe hier doch eigentlich in friedlichen Zeiten gelebt ...
On July 10, it was 50 years since The Beatles released their A Hard Day’s Night LP in the UK (the US version, with a different tracklisting, followed two weeks later). It was a landmark event for pop music, not because the music was especially innovative, but because here a pop group released an album including only own compositions. In 1964, this was very unusual indeed.
And this even more remarkable when one considers just how busy the group was at the time, with all the touring and US television appearances (as documented here), filming the movie and recording even more music that didn’t make it on to the album. In their writing, John Lennon and Paul McCartney were so prolific that they could give away pretty good songs to other artists, such a Peter & Gordon, Cilla Black and Billy J Kramer. The creative pressure showed on the follow-up, Beatles For Sale, which was released later in 1964 and included several covers (and also a few stone-cold Beatles classics).
A Hard Day’s Night was very much Lennon’s work. He wrote the title track, I Should Have Known Better, Tell Me Why, Any Time At All, I’ll Cry Instead, When I Get Home and You Can’t Do That, most of If I Fell and I’ll Be Back, and contributed to McCartney’s I’m Happy Just To Dance With You. But Paul’s three other contributions are probably the strongest: And I Love Her, Things We Said Today and Can’t Buy Me Love.
A Hard Day’s Night was also the first Beatles album to rely on the Beatles’ unique sound. Where the previous two LPs included several covers of rock & roul and R&B songs, and many songs recalled the various influences from which the group drew, this was the first album on which The Beatles totally owned their sound. Nobody sounded like them.
(Any Major Dude With Half A Heart)
Der Dude hat sich ein schönes A Hard Day’s Night – Recovered-Album ausgedacht:
Eine sehr gelungene Auswahl, die das unglaubliche Potenzial der Lennon-McCartney-Songs erkennen lässt ( - wie z.B. auch das Album Motown Meets The Beatles von 1995). Man könnte sich selbst auch ein Hard-Day's-Night-Album basteln mit den Originalen und ausgewählten Bearbeitungen.... Viel Spaß dabei ...
Es ist ja zur Zeit überall von der Juli-Krise 1914 und vom Ersten Weltkrieg die Rede. Wenn man Zeitläufte selbst miterlebt, scheint es einem, als sei zB das Erscheinen von A Hard Days Night doch so lange noch gar nicht her. Wenn man aber das als halbe Distanz zum 1. Weltkrieg und als nicht einmal 20 Jahre nach Ende des 2. Weltkriegs wahrnimmt, relativiert sich der Eindruck, man habe hier doch eigentlich in friedlichen Zeiten gelebt ...
On July 10, it was 50 years since The Beatles released their A Hard Day’s Night LP in the UK (the US version, with a different tracklisting, followed two weeks later). It was a landmark event for pop music, not because the music was especially innovative, but because here a pop group released an album including only own compositions. In 1964, this was very unusual indeed.
And this even more remarkable when one considers just how busy the group was at the time, with all the touring and US television appearances (as documented here), filming the movie and recording even more music that didn’t make it on to the album. In their writing, John Lennon and Paul McCartney were so prolific that they could give away pretty good songs to other artists, such a Peter & Gordon, Cilla Black and Billy J Kramer. The creative pressure showed on the follow-up, Beatles For Sale, which was released later in 1964 and included several covers (and also a few stone-cold Beatles classics).
A Hard Day’s Night was very much Lennon’s work. He wrote the title track, I Should Have Known Better, Tell Me Why, Any Time At All, I’ll Cry Instead, When I Get Home and You Can’t Do That, most of If I Fell and I’ll Be Back, and contributed to McCartney’s I’m Happy Just To Dance With You. But Paul’s three other contributions are probably the strongest: And I Love Her, Things We Said Today and Can’t Buy Me Love.
A Hard Day’s Night was also the first Beatles album to rely on the Beatles’ unique sound. Where the previous two LPs included several covers of rock & roul and R&B songs, and many songs recalled the various influences from which the group drew, this was the first album on which The Beatles totally owned their sound. Nobody sounded like them.
(Any Major Dude With Half A Heart)
Der Dude hat sich ein schönes A Hard Day’s Night – Recovered-Album ausgedacht:
Eine sehr gelungene Auswahl, die das unglaubliche Potenzial der Lennon-McCartney-Songs erkennen lässt ( - wie z.B. auch das Album Motown Meets The Beatles von 1995). Man könnte sich selbst auch ein Hard-Day's-Night-Album basteln mit den Originalen und ausgewählten Bearbeitungen.... Viel Spaß dabei ...
gebattmer - 2014/07/15 19:22
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