Album Summary: A Hard Day's Night

This has been a pretty great album. I actually have a lot of favorites from this one--"A Hard Day's Night", "If I Fell", "Can't Buy Me Love", etc., most of them from the first side. This album marked a new page for The Beatles--they were growing as musicians and songwriters, trying out new ideas, being innovative and daring with their music, and growing exponentially more popular. I agree with the statement that A Hard Day's Night represented the idea of Beatlemania--I can definitely imagine how psychotic those crowds of screeching teenagers were (it's not difficult to picture it, considering the modern-day examples we have now).

I'll end this summary with a quote from music critic Richie Unterberger:

George Harrison's resonant 12-string electric guitar leads were hugely influential; the movie helped persuade The Byrds, then folksingers, to plunge all out into rock & roll, and the Beatles would be hugely influential on the folk-rock explosion of 1965. The Beatles' success, too, had begun to open the US market for fellow Brits like the Rolling Stones, the Animals, and the Kinks, and inspired young American groups like the Beau Brummels, Lovin' Spoonful, and others to mount a challenge of their own with self-penned material that owed a great debt to Lennon-McCartney.