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The Beatles are arguably the greatest rock band in history - if not the greatest band in history so it checks out the band constantly churned out No. 1 hits.
John Lennon revealed there was "a little competition" between he and Paul McCartney "as to who got the A-side -- who got the hits. If you notice, in the early days the majority of singles, in the movies and everything, were mine... in the early period I'm dominating the group."
He revealed McCartney's singing on No. 1 hit A Hard Day's Night came because Lennon couldn't hit the high notes.
How 'A Hard Day's Night' Got Its Title - Organically
The title originally came from something Starr said off the cuff.
"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.'"
This didn't appear to be a one-off for Starr, either. According to McCartney, this was a common occurrence for the percussionist.
"The title was Ringo's. We'd almost finished making the film, and this fun bit arrived that we'd not known about before, which was naming the film. So we were sitting around at Twickenham studios having a little brain-storming session... and we said, 'Well, there was something Ringo said the other day,'" he said.
"Ringo would do these little malapropisms, he would say things slightly wrong, like people do, but his were always wonderful, very lyrical... they were sort of magic even though he was just getting it wrong. And he said after a concert, 'Phew, it's been a hard day's night.'"
A Hard Day's Night reached No. 1 in the United Kingdom on July 23, 1964.
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