The Beatles Bible

The Beatles' first feature film, 1963's A Hard Day's Night, is to be released on Blu-ray Disc in October, according to web retailer Amazon. Read more »

The unused scene for Help! featuring Frankie Howerd and Wendy Richard was completed on this morning. Prior work had taken place on 22 and 23 April. Read more »

Four days after the world première of A Hard Day's Night in London, The Beatles arrived in Liverpool for the first northern England screening. Read more »

Both the A Hard Day's Night single and album were released on this day in the United Kingdom. Read more »

The Beatles' first feature film, A Hard Day's Night, had its première at the London Pavilion. Read more »

The Beatles' fourth US album was the soundtrack for their debut film A Hard Day's Night. Read more »

Studios One and Two (control room), EMI Studios, Abbey Road
Producer: George Martin
Engineer: Norman Smith

With The Beatles on tour in New Zealand, George Martin and his team at EMI Studios created a number of mono and stereo mixes for the A Hard Day's Night LP and the Long Tall Sally EP. Read more »

Studio Two, EMI Studios, Abbey Road
Producer: George Martin
Engineer: Norman Smith

The Beatles were on tour while this hour-long mixing session took place at Abbey Road. Read more »

Studio Three (control room), EMI Studios, Abbey Road
Producer: George Martin
Engineer: Norman Smith

While The Beatles were away on tour in Hong Kong, George Martin was at Abbey Road working on the mixes for the A Hard Day's Night LP. Read more »

Studio Two, EMI Studios, Abbey Road
Producer: George Martin
Engineer: Norman Smith

While The Beatles were on tour in Denmark, George Martin oversaw a mixing, editing and overdub session at EMI Studios, for songs for the A Hard Day's Night LP and the Long Tall Sally EP. Read more »

In the morning Ringo Starr collapsed with tonsillitis and pharyngitis during a photo session for the Saturday Evening Post newspaper in Barnes, north London. Read more »

Studio Two, EMI Studios, Abbey Road
Producer: George Martin
Engineer: Norman Smith

Three songs for the non-soundtrack side of the A Hard Day's Night LP were recorded today: Any Time At All, Things We Said Today and When I Get Home. Read more »

Studio Two, EMI Studios, Abbey Road
Producer: George Martin
Engineer: Norman Smith

During this day's two recording sessions The Beatles worked on a number of songs for the A Hard Day's Night LP and the Long Tall Sally EP. Read more »

Six busy weeks spent filming A Hard Day's Night came to a close on this day, with a final scene being shot at Edgehill Road in Ealing, London. Read more »

Studio Two (control room), EMI Studios, Abbey Road
Producer: George Martin
Engineer: Norman Smith

George Martin had created mono and stereo mixes of the song A Hard Day's Night for United Artists on 16 April 1964.

On this day, however, he made another mono mix, which was used on the EMI LP A Hard Day's Night, and on the single.

The Beatles had filmed scenes at Gatwick Airport for the Can't Buy Me Love sequence of the A Hard Day's Night film on 13 March 1964. More footage was needed, however, which was captured on this day. Read more »

The Beatles were filmed this morning descending the iron staircase at the back of the Hammersmith Odeon, which became the beginning of one of two Can't Buy Me Love sequences in the A Hard Day's Night film. Read more »

This was the second day of filming for Paul McCartney's unused solo scene in A Hard Day's Night. As with the previous day's shooting, the rest of The Beatles were not present. Read more »

Studio Two (control room), EMI Studios, Abbey Road
Producer: George Martin
Engineer: Norman Smith

The Beatles had recorded the song A Hard Day's Night on 16 April 1964. Four days later mono and stereo mixes were made. Read more »

Paul McCartney filmed a solo sequence for The Beatles' debut feature film A Hard Day's Night on this day. However, it was omitted from the final cut. Read more »