A Hard Day’s Night

A Hard Day’s Night is one of the most recognizable Beatles songs. The track was the title of both the group’s first movie and their third studio album. The name of the song originated from something Ringo Starr said during one of the Fab Four’s tours. Starr described coming up with the title in an interview with a DJ named Dave Hull. "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.'" The track is a Lennon-McCartney song, but John did most of the writing. Lennon wrote the first draft in one night because of his friendly competition with Paul to see who could write the band’s A-sides. The rest of the band liked the song, so they soon took to the studio to record. It took them only three and a half hours and nine takes to prepare the song for its final release. The track had commercial success in both the United States and the U.K. In the states, the song held a number one spot for two weeks straight, which had never been done before. In the United Kingdom, it reached number one and lasted a total of nine weeks on the charts.