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2.31am
8 November 2012
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Meh, I don’t really care, to be honest. But I do find it strange that if it’s not the Beatles, that the band responsible wouldn’t have come forward to brag or seek residuals.
If someone finds Jimmy again, I doubt he’d be pleased.
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8.42pm
8 November 2012
Offline Ringo finally weighs in on the Train Song debate.
Er, I’ll spare you the filler and just give you his answer:
“I’m afraid I have to help keep it a mystery,” he said with a generous smile. “I don’t remember.”
Paul’s turn.
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Ahhh Girl12.48am
19 June 2014
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I just heard about “The Train Song” dilemma this AM on my area Breakfast With The Beatles . I think it’s them. Here’s why:
- They liked messing around. What if they decided to make some “electronic noise”, whatever was the generic hip non-Beatle sound of the day, just to be “another band” to make the scene play out? They’d toy with the idea of being another band later… Sgt. Pepper . Up their alley, their humour.
- They wouldn’t have to pay rights for anyone else’s music. Even if they grabbed some trendy new band in the next studio room to jam for 35 seconds, they’d still have to buy the tune or give credit to the band, and no one is noted, right? No one else has stepped forward in 50 years?
- They used the song to irritate the stuffy old man. The music is meant to be obnoxious. It would’ve insulted another legit band if they used a song by that band for that scene. No one has identified the song as being from anyone else, right?
- They were all about promoting themselves at this point. The whole movie is Beatles. Why would they use someone else’s song?
- They could’ve all shoved over one spot on the instruments and “jammed” some tune. Each Beatle playing a different instrument would make their sound pretty awkward. I’d say this definitely sounds awkward, unskilled, loud.
For all this, they could’ve just used one of their own popular songs, to be tongue-in-cheek, but I don’t think they wanted to make their songs grating to the older generations. It doesn’t go with the formula of cute mop-tops winning over the masses. I think the instruments sound Beatley enough, the more I listen to it. It just doesn’t sound “right”. They were pretending to be someone else, or they were just acting cocky, or they swapped parts, who knows! Is there anyone left alive who was there to say for sure? Where was it recorded? I hope we get answers!
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1.51am
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17 December 2012
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I am undecided. The most compelling “evidence” has to be that nobody else has ever claimed to have had a hand in it.
That said, there’s nothing to say that it wasn’t a bunch of session musicians (only their time would have needed to have been paid for) and that none of them have recognised it from the few seconds that made the film.
It could be something as simple as Brian suggesting seeing whether there was anything on a Pacemakers or Dakotas tape that was usable. In fact, as the Dakotas were also an instrumental band as well as backing Billy J., that possibility wouldn’t surprise me at all.
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2.23am
17 October 2013
Offline It was explained last week on Beatles rarities……Hope the link works. Incase it doesn’t……It was the Beatles.
2.25am
8 November 2012
Offline Still not the last word. He’s going by a quote from Walter Shenson, which has been challenged in a couple of other articles posted in this thread.
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2.27am
17 October 2013
Offline Actually I watched it last night………First time in years. I was surprised to realize I knew 2 of the actors. In the years when I knew them I never asked about their Beatle experiences in the film.
3.07am
19 June 2014
Offline ?! Which actors? Why??
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7.40am
17 October 2013
Offline John Junkin who played ‘Shake’ sp was a regular at an Indian restaurant called ‘The Romna’ in Seymour Place, 5 min walk from John+Yoko/Ringo’s flat and across the road from Marylebone Station…….(I noticed in the film it begins with John, George and Ringo running along ‘Boston Place’, which is the road parallel to the Station, (later to became the location for the Apple offices and Paul mentions it in his introduction to Hey Jude on Anthology)…. but they are running away from the station entrance. Then the Beatles arrive at Marylebone, get chased around the platforms, get on a train, do all the train scenes + ‘I should have Known Better’……Only to arrive back where they started, jump in a limo and leave)….Presumably the train round-trip was only there to facilitate George’s future wedding plans!!
About 15 years after AHDN I met John Junkin. I bumped into him quite often in The Romna….Our Indian food addiction habits seemed to coincide and we’d chat over a drink while he waited for his ‘takeaway’. Junkin was always playing small roles on the telly. I can’t remember what we talked about but neither he or I ever mentioned the Beatles. I didn’t connect the two……..I could kick myself now.
The other actor was Julian Holloway who plays a small part in the ‘shirt scene’ and isn’t credited……. He’s the son of Stanley Holloway a British actor who some Americans would know via his part as Eliza’s father in ‘My Fair Lady’
Julian appeared in ‘Carry on Films’ and such………. Once again, perhaps more understandably I didn’t ever connect him with the Beatles.
Just one little backstairs Beatles story from either of them would have been so interesting 50 years on.…….”I should have Known Better’ shouldn’t I?
6.10am
8 September 2014
Offline I loved the movie and watched it thrice. But I didn’t like Paul’s grandfather much. But the Beatles were HILARIOUS!
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3.48pm
1 November 2013
Offline I was watching it again and I noticed that the reason Paul’s Grandfather is with them is because Paul’s Mom thought the trip would do him good but Paul’s mom is dead so how did Paul communicate with the dead?
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3 June 2014
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But the albums are great! 
5.32pm
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1 May 2011
Offline Annadog40 said
I was watching it again and I noticed that the reason Paul’s Grandfather is with them is because Paul’s Mom thought the trip would do him good but Paul’s mom is dead so how did Paul communicate with the dead?
They had a seance a few nights before but the scene was cut out due to it being a bit too grim. Breaking into a performance of Ask Me Why was also deemed a bit tasteless.
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3.23am
1 May 2010
Offline Well guys, after almost 30 years I’ll watch again A Hard Day’s Night . It’s gonna be on a local cinema this Friday. 
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10.29am
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1 May 2011
Offline That’s a long time between viewings mithveaen? Enjoy the film.
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2.36am
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1 May 2011
Offline ‘A Hard Day’s Night ‘ is the recipient of another broadcast on BBC 2, this time on New Years Day (Thursday 1st January) from 9:50am thru till 11:15am. No doubt it will also be available on the BBC iPlayer for 30 days.
[x-posted to the ‘Upcoming On A TV or Radio (Possibly) Near You‘ thread.]
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6.39pm
7 August 2014
Offline Was on the BBC this morning.
Watched it with my mum and we were absolutely pissing ourselves. Forgot how hilarious the boys were in it.
8.38pm
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18 March 2013
Offline Feck-I forgot it was on 
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8.44pm
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1 May 2011
Offline Its available on the iplayer for 6 days for anyone who wants to see it.
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