Fact #99066
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Short story:
George Harrison celebrates his 21st birthday on the same day that The Beatles begin recording tracks for their first movie, A Hard Day's Night in EMI's Abbey Road Studios, London, UK.
The first two songs taped are Can't Buy Me Love and You Can't Do That.
Full article:
George Martin (producer) : On A Hard Day's Night we wouldn't take more than a day on each track, because they were very busy doing concerts, doing the film. Titles had to be done very quickly.
John Lennon : There were times when we honestly thought we'd never get the time to write all the material. But we'd managed to get a couple finished while we were in Paris, during our stay at The Olympia. And three more were completed in America, while we were soaking up the sun on Miami Beach.
Paul McCartney : John would be knocking off I Should Have Known Better on his own and I'd also be doing the same. We finished it all pretty quickly and soon had more than enough songs. It wasn't like we were writing a soundtrack, we were just writing Beatle songs that happened to be a soundtrack.
By the time we got around to A Hard Day's Night, we sort of expected that when we sat down together to write a song we'd have a bit of fun, simply because we were used to it.
George Martin : When The Beatles first sang Can't Buy Me Love to me, they started singing 'da da da da', and that was the beginning of the song. So I told them we needed a tag for the ending and beginning. I took the first few lines of the actual chorus and changed the ending and said, 'Right, let's just have these lines and, by altering the end of the second phrase, we can get back into the verse pretty quickly.' They said, 'Hey, that's not a bad idea. OK, we'll do it that way.' So that, in fact, is the way it was done.
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John Lennon : There were times when we honestly thought we'd never get the time to write all the material. But we'd managed to get a couple finished while we were in Paris, during our stay at The Olympia. And three more were completed in America, while we were soaking up the sun on Miami Beach.
Paul McCartney : John would be knocking off I Should Have Known Better on his own and I'd also be doing the same. We finished it all pretty quickly and soon had more than enough songs. It wasn't like we were writing a soundtrack, we were just writing Beatle songs that happened to be a soundtrack.
By the time we got around to A Hard Day's Night, we sort of expected that when we sat down together to write a song we'd have a bit of fun, simply because we were used to it.
George Martin : When The Beatles first sang Can't Buy Me Love to me, they started singing 'da da da da', and that was the beginning of the song. So I told them we needed a tag for the ending and beginning. I took the first few lines of the actual chorus and changed the ending and said, 'Right, let's just have these lines and, by altering the end of the second phrase, we can get back into the verse pretty quickly.' They said, 'Hey, that's not a bad idea. OK, we'll do it that way.' So that, in fact, is the way it was done.
(Source : not known)