A Hard Day's Night - Their First Movie (Stereo) (Spoken Word) Songtext
von The Beatles

"A Hard Day′s Night" by The Beatles

Narrator
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 to date have reached a figure
Beyond all comprehension
The next obvious step to further the Beatle image was a move
From the world of wax to the world of celluloid
And the medium of motion pictures


Narrator
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 storyline, 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!

John Lennon
"Well this is as good as anybody who makes a film
That can't act, you know?" (Laughter)

Narrator
Newspaper and magazine critics held their pen at 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, pre-conditioned to knock the movie
Now made plans to see it. In England, Beatle manager
Brian Epstein casually looked up from a masterplan 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


John Lennon
"Ringo, John, Paul, George. Ringo, John, Paul, George..."
Paul McCartney: "All together now!"
The Beatles: "Ringo, John, Paul, George. Yay!"
Paul McCartney: "By Jove, they′ve got it!"

Narrator
An estimated one hundred million Americans have already seen
The Beatles on television or at their neighborhood theaters
Hundreds of thousands more have seen The Beatles in person
And that's just one country in a Beatle marketplace
That knows no limits. This is only the beginning
For almost everything The Beatles now do sets a new
Entertainment record