A Hard Day's Night - Their First Movie

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AFTER HAVING ENJOYED ALL THE SUCCESS A RECORDING GROUP COULD EVER HOPE FOR
AND FINALLY ACHIEVE, THE HEIGHT OF THEIR SUCCESS IS STILL NOWHERE IN SIGHT.
THEIR RECORD SALES TODAY HAVE REACHED A FIGURE BEYOND ALL COMPREHENSION.
THE NEXT OBVIOUS STEP TO FURTHER THE BEATLE IMAGE WAS TO MOVE FROM THE
WORLD OF WAX TO THE WORLD OF CELLULOID AND THE MEDIUM OF MOTION PICTURES.

SO WHY ON EARTH SHOULD I MOAN?
'CAUSE WHEN I GET YOU ALONE,
YOU KNOW I FEEL OKAY,
YOU KNOW I FEEL ALRIGHT,
YOU KNOW I FEEL ALRIGHT.
THE INITIAL ANNOUNCEMENT THAT THE BEATLES WERE GOING TO MAKE A MOTION
PICTURE AROUSED IMMEDIATE AND PREDICTABLE ENTHUSIASM FROM FANS. BUT BEATLE
CRITICS ALSO WELCOMED THE NEWS WITH A CYNICAL HOPE THAT EXPOSURE ON FILM
WOULD EXPOSE THE BEATLES AS ENTERTAINMENT WORLD FREAKS LONG ON HAIR BUT
SHORT ON TALENT. BEATLE ENEMIES ALSO SMIRKED IN ANTICIPATION OF THE POISON PEN
TREATMENT WHICH THEY FORECAST WOULD COME FROM AMERICA'S HARD-NOSED
MOTION PICTURE CRITICS. DESCRIBED OFFICIALLY AS A LOW-BUDGET FILM WITH LITTLE
OR NO STORY LINE, IT WAS GIVEN ALL THE PUBLICITY TREATMENT OF A MAJOR
SPECTACULAR. INTERVIEWS WERE GRANTED. THE BEATLES SAID THEY HAD FUN, DIDN'T
ACT. JOHN LENNON EVEN ADMITTED THAT THEY COULDN'T ACT.
"ARE YOU SATISFIED WITH THE FINISHED PRODUCT?"
"WELL, IT'S AS GOOD AS ANYBODY THAT MAKES A FILM WHO CAN'T ACT, YOU KNOW."
NEWSPAPER AND MAGAZINE CRITICS HELD THEIR PENS READY. PREVIEWS WERE HELD AND
SO WERE BREATHS. THEN SURPRISE! THE MOST COMPETENT REVIEWERS HAILED THE
BEATLES FIRST MOTION PICTURE AS A SMASH HIT. THEY WERE COMPARED TO THE MARX
BROTHERS AND ENCOURAGED TO DO IT AGAIN. AMAZED READERS, PRECONDITIONED TO
KNOCK THE MOVIE, NOW MADE PLANS TO SEE IT. IN ENGLAND, BEATLE MANAGER BRIAN
EPSTEIN, CASUALLY LOOKED UP FROM THE MASTER PLAN OF A FUTURE BEATLE TOUR TO
ANNOUNCE THAT THE MOVIE WOULD BREAK EVERY EXISTING MOTION PICTURE BOX
OFFICE RECORD. THE BEATLES, AS USUAL, THEY WERE JUST BUSY BEING BEATLES.
"RINGO, JOHN, PAUL, GEORGE - RINGO, JOHN, PAUL, GEORGE, ALL TOGETHER NOW. RINGO,
JOHN, PAUL, GEORGE. BY JOVE THEY'VE GOT IT IN THIS PICTURE. GOOD."
AN ESTIMATED 100 MILLION AMERICANS HAVE ALREADY SEEN THE BEATLES ON
TELEVISION OR AT THEIR NEIGHBOURHOOD THEATRES. HUNDRED OF THOUSANDS MORE
HAVE SEEN THE BEATLES IN PERSON. AND THAT'S JUST ONE COUNTRY IN A BEATLE
MARKETPLACE WHICH KNOWS NO LIMITS. THIS IS ONLY THE BEGINNING. FOR ALMOST
EVERYTHING THE BEATLES NOW DO SETS A NEW ENTERTAINMENT RECORD.


AND I LOVE HER
By John Lennon and Paul McCartney

I GIVE HER ALL MY LOVE,
THAT'S ALL I DO;
AND IF YOU SAW MY LOVE,
YOU'D LOVE HER TOO,
I LOVE HER.
SHE GIVES ME EV?RYTHING,
AND TENDERLY;
THE KISS

 

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