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From '' Soleado ''
Label: Odeon – 3C 064 - 18037 / 3 C064-18037
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: Italy
Released: 1974

Tracklist
A1 Ballero
Written-By – Jerry Goldstein
A2 Soleado
Written-By – Zacar
A3 Autunno
Written-By – Ciro Dammicco
A4 A Hard Day's Night
Written-By – Lennon-McCartney
A5 Sangriando
Written-By – Savino Grieco, Zacar
A6 Per Elisa
Arranged By [Rielab.] – Zacar
Written-By – Ludwig van Beethoven
B1 Working In The Hacienda
Written-By – Zacar
B2 Corazon
Written-By – Carole King
B3 Un Sospero
Written-By – Bruno Santori, Zacar
B4 I Don't Know How To Love Him
Written-By – Andrew Lloyd Webber And Tim Rice
B5 Junk
Written-By – Paul McCartney
B6 Abra - Kad - Abra
Written-By – Umberto Decimo

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"A Hard Day's Night" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles.
Credited to Lennon–McCartney, it was primarily written by John Lennon, with some minor collaboration from Paul McCartney.
It was released on the soundtrack album A Hard Day's Night in 1964.
It was also released as a single in the UK (with "Things We Said Today" as its B-side), and in the US (with "I Should Have Known Better" as its B-side.)

The song featured prominently in the Beatles' first feature film, A Hard Day's Night.
The song topped the charts in both the United Kingdom and United States when it was released as a single.
The American and British singles of "A Hard Day's Night", as well as both the American and British albums of the same title, held the top position in their respective charts simultaneously for a couple of weeks in August 1964, the first time any artist had accomplished this feat.

Title

The song's title originated from something said by Ringo Starr. Starr described it this way in an interview with disc jockey Dave Hull in 1964: "We went to do a job, and we'd worked all day and we happened to work all night. I came up still thinking it was day I suppose, and I said, 'It's been a hard day …' and I looked around and saw it was dark so I said, '… night!' So we came to 'A Hard Day's Night.'"

Release and reception

"A Hard Day's Night" was first released to the United States, coming out on 26 June 1964 on the album A Hard Day's Night, the soundtrack to the film, and released by United Artists.

The United Kingdom first heard "A Hard Day's Night" when it was released there on 10 July 1964, both on the album A Hard Day's Night, and as a single, backed with "Things We Said Today" on the B-side. Both the album and single were released by Parlophone Records. The single began charting on 18 July 1964, a week later ousting the Rolling Stones' "It's All Over Now" from the top spot on the British charts on 25 July 1964, coincidentally the day when both the American and British albums too hit the peak of their respective charts. The single stayed on top for three weeks, and lasted another nine weeks in the charts afterwards.

The American single on 1 August started a two-week-long run at the top, setting a new record – nobody before had ever held the number one position on both the album and singles charts in the United Kingdom and the United States at the same time. The Beatles were the only ones who had done this until 1970 when Simon and Garfunkel achieved the same feat with their album Bridge over Troubled Water and its title track.

The song was the fifth of seven songs by the Beatles to hit number 1 in a one-year period, an all-time record on the US charts. In order, these were "I Want to Hold Your Hand", "She Loves You", "Can't Buy Me Love", "Love Me Do", "A Hard Day's Night", "I Feel Fine" and "Eight Days a Week". It was also the sixth of seven songs written by Lennon-McCartney to hit number 1 in 1964, an all-time record on the US charts for writing the most songs to hit number 1 in the same calendar year.

The song's opening chord and closing arpeggios were highly influential on the Byrds. After watching the film A Hard Day's Night and seeing Harrison's choice of guitar, Roger McGuinn adopted the Rickenbacker as his and the Byrds' signature instrument.
In this way, according to author Andrew Grant Jackson, "A Hard Day's Night" "birthed" the folk-rock sound that the Byrds popularised in 1965.
That same year, "A Hard Day's Night" won the Grammy Award for Best Performance by a Vocal Group.
In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked the song at number 153 on its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
In 2000, the 1964 recording of "A Hard Day's Night" on the United Artists label was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.