Following their four-day Easter break, The Beatles returned to London’s Scala Theatre to film the concert performance sequence which marked the climax of the A Hard Day’s Night film.
The performance took place in front of 350 fans, each of whom was paid a standard union fee for their appearance. Among them was Phil Collins, then a 13-year-old child actor, but later to find fame with Genesis and as a solo artist.
In the film The Beatles are shown miming to four songs: ‘Tell Me Why’, ‘If I Fell’, ‘I Should Have Known Better’ and ‘She Loves You’. They also filmed others, including ‘And I Love Her’ and ‘You Can’t Do That’, but these were unused in the final cut.
Last updated: 30 March 2017
Also on this day...
- 2015: Album release: Postcards From Paradise by Ringo Starr
- 2010: Paul McCartney live: Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles
- 1990: Paul McCartney live: California Memorial Stadium, Berkeley
- 1978: UK album release: London Town by Wings
- 1970: Paul McCartney reacts angrily to a letter from John Lennon and George Harrison, delivered by Ringo Starr
- 1970: Radio: Ringo Starr on Open House
- 1969: George and Pattie Harrison are fined for drugs possession
- 1969: John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s lightning trip to Vienna
- 1967: Recording, mixing: With A Little Help From My Friends, Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite!
- 1965: Filming: Help!
- 1964: Radio: Saturday Club
- 1963: The Beatles live: De Montfort Hall, Leicester
- 1962: The Beatles live: Subscription Rooms, Stroud
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Someone, please help!! I am obsessed with dates and I cannot locate the exact date that the album cover photos for “A Hard Day’s Night” were taken. Not even Mark Lewisohn’s books contain that information. I know that they were taken in Robert Freeman’s studio in March or April, but I need the exact date (The “With the Beatles” album cover photo was taken by Robert Freeman on Aug. 22nd, 1963).
Thanks!!