Behind the Scenes of A Hard Day's Night with the Beatles

Much like the first steps Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took on the moon in 1969, or the moment in 1962 when Marilyn Monroe was found dead in her Brentwood home, the release of the Beatles’ cinema debut A Hard Day’s Night in 1964 is one of those events so seminal that anybody who lived through it remembers what they were doing when they saw it. Directed by Richard Lester, the film took the form of a black-and-white slapstick comedy based on 36…