A Hard Day’s Night Tracklist
The Beatles had already set a trend by writing their own material, but both their previous albums were beefed up with the inclusion of covers. That all changed with A Hard Day’s Night, which was composed solely of original songs. The Beatles became the second pop musicians to record a whole album of original material, after Bob Dylan. Whilst John Lennon dominated the songwriting process, Paul McCartney also started to come into his own, writing the single “Can’t Buy Me Love”.
Although the album is still rooted very much in The Beatles' early pop sound, the arrangements are more complex than the material from Please Please Me or With The Beatles. This is because A Hard Day’s Night was recorded on four-track tape, allowing for higher-quality recording of rhythm tracks (which no longer needed to be “bumped down” to a single track before the vocals could be recorded).
As with Help!, the first side of the record was the soundtrack to the film of the same name. The second side consists of other songs written for the album.
