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The Beatles recorded at EMI Pathé Marconi Studios in Paris on the 29th of January 1964. This session marked their first recording outside London and included German-language versions of recent singles.
A Hard Day's Night became the band's first album to contain all-original material penned by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. The lack of rock and roll covers allowed listeners to hear the group's new modernist terms without distraction.
The American version appeared on United Artists Records on the 26th of June 1964, two weeks before the UK release. United Artists rushed the album into stores over a month before the film opened in the US on the 11th of August 1964.
The record was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2000. It also appeared at number 307 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time in 2012 before rising to number 263 in the 2020 revision.
A remastered version arrived on the 9th of September 2009, marking the first time the album appeared in stereo on compact disc in its entirety. This release included the track in true stereo for all songs.