Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!

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Movie
German title Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! (also: A Hard Day's Night )
Original title A hard day's night
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Country of production UK
original language English
Publishing year 1964
length 87 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Richard Lester
script Alun Owen
production Walter Shenson
music The Beatles and George Martin
camera Gilbert Taylor
cut John Jympson
occupation
chronology

Successor  →
Hi-Hi Help! (Help!)
(1965)

Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! (alternatively: A Hard Day's Night) is a British film by director Richard Lester from 1964. The focus of the game plot are the four members of the Beatles . The soundtrack was released as the album A Hard Day's Night .

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Paul McCartney , George Harrison , John Lennon , 1964

The film describes a day in the life of the Beatles and ironically describes " Beatlemania ", which had been in full swing since 1963. As part of the possibilities of the film, the different characters of the four Beatles are shown: John the cynic, Paul the charming, George the reserved, Ringo the clown, who suffers from his role in the band structure. The black and white film sometimes pretends to provide a picture of the actual life of the Beatles and uses the style of a mockumentary to do so . It is also a document from Swinging London in the 1960s.

In the opening scene, the Beatles flee from a horde of fans while trying to catch a train to London . During the train ride, Paul McCartney introduces the other Beatles to his grandfather ( Wilfrid Brambell ), who turns out to be a troublemaker . They then tease an older man and flirt with school girls before arriving at London train station, where they are quickly driven to a hotel where they feel cooped up. Their manager Norm ( Norman Rossington ) hires them to answer all of their fan mail, but instead they sneak out to a party, where they are then captured by Norm and brought back to the hotel. There they find out that Paul's grandfather has gone to a casino and gambled away his money, after which he is taken back to the hotel.

Ringo Starr , 1964

The next day, the Beatles come to a television studio to perform. After the first rehearsal, the producer ( Victor Spinetti ) believes they want to sabotage his career. The Beatles flee over a fire escape and dance in a field until they are driven away by the owner. Back in the studios, the Beatles parted ways, so George Harrison ended up in a fashion agency, where he was kicked out because of his comments. The Beatles return to the television studio to rehearse two more songs.

An hour before the television broadcast, Ringo Starr has to take care of Paul's grandfather and takes him to the canteen to have tea while he reads a book. The grandfather persuades Ringo to go out to enjoy life instead of reading books. Ringo Starr goes to a pub , takes photos, walks along a canal and rides a bicycle. While the other three search in vain for Ringo, Ringo and Paul's grandfather, who sells fake Beatles autographs , are arrested and taken to a police station. The grandfather escapes and informs the other Beatles about Ringo Starr's current situation. Norm sends John, Paul and George to get Ringo from the police station. The Beatles get caught in a chase with the police before returning to the TV studio with Ringo just before the broadcast. The television concert runs as planned, after which the Beatles are brought to another performance by helicopter .

Dubbed version

The German dubbed version of the film sometimes completely changes the meaning of the dialogues. The Beatles talk about The Tin Drum by Günter Grass , quote German poems and want to see German films .

role actor Dubbing voice
John Lennon John Lennon Rainer Brandt
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney Wolfgang Gruner
George Harrison George Harrison Wolfgang Draeger
Ringo Starr Ringo Starr Horst Gentzen
Paul's grandfather Wilfrid Brambell Hugo Schrader

Reviews

"New and trend-setting for later music films is the authentic reproduction of the attitude towards life and the atmosphere of the time, which is achieved less through protocol realism than through creative disorder and parodistic style experiments."

- Lexicon of international film

Awards

The script and music were nominated for an Oscar in 1965.

Others

Pattie Boyd is in the role of Jean to see a school girl who is not mentioned in the credits, and learned on the set George Harrison, whom she later married.

For the GDR ruler Walter Ulbricht that was “Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! "The Beatles a prime example of western beat music:" Is it really the case that we just have to copy every filth that comes from the west? I think, comrades, with the monotony of Je-Je-Je, and whatever it is called, […] you should put an end to it. ”(1965, announcement of the ban on western beat music at the XIth Plenum of the Central Committee of the SED ).

It was only years after the film was released that it became known that the singer Phil Collins had an appearance in this film as an extra.

The film was released in theaters in the Federal Republic of Germany on July 23, 1964 and it was first broadcast on television on April 18, 1974 on ZDF .

The Beatles on the making of the film

The following quotes by the Beatles are from The Beatles Anthology and reflect their opinions and memories:

The London Pavilion Cinema shows A Hard Day's Night , 1964
Victor Spinetti plays a television director in the film A Hard Day's Night

Paul McCartney: “The success had now set in America. So why not make a film. We loved The Girl can`t help it and we knew that a rock´n`roll movie was doable. "

John Lennon: "We didn't want to make a movie that would end up being bad, so we insisted on having a really good writer write the script."

Paul McCartney: “But the idea of ​​the film stuck to us, so Brian (Epstein) contacted different people until the name Dick Lester came up. Dick came over and it turned out he was also a musician. He was American but had worked in England with The Goons . That was enough for us. "

John Lennon: “We were the sons of The Goon Show . In a way, we were the continuation of that rebellion. "

Paul McCartney: "Dick Lester won Alun Owen, a lovable Welsh playwright from Liverpool, for the script."

Ringo Starr: “Brian had found a producer too, Walter Shenson - everyone wanted to do the film. We spent a lot of time with Alun Owen. At times he accompanied us on our tour through England, wrote about the whole chaos around it and about how we lived - it was like a caricature of ourselves. A Hard Day`s Night shows what a day in our life looks like in Reality two days and two nights of our lives - in the record studio, in the television studio, everything that happened, he processed, and also woven other parts. "

John Lennon: “It was a comic book version of what was actually going on. The pressure was actually far greater. "

Paul McCartney: “Alun collected countless bagatelles about us. Little jokes, pointy or humorous remarks, John's joke, Ringo's laconic manner; every little characteristic peculiarity. As soon as he finished a scene, he came up and asked us, 'Do you like this?' And we: 'Yes, it's good, but could I put it that way?' I think he wrote a very good script. "

George Harrison: “Everyone in Liverpool thinks they're a comedian. In our case the humor was even more concentrated, if only because the four of us were that kind and passed the balls to each other. ”“ The only thing I didn't enjoy was getting up at five in the morning. That was very early. "

Ringo Starr: “Getting up early in the morning wasn't one of our greatest talents. Once I had spent the night and came straight from the club to filming. To put it mildly, I was a little hungover. And I: "Just let me walk around and you guys will film me." And we did. And the only reason I seemed so listless and depressed was because I felt so crappy. "

George Harrison: "Some things were only created during the shooting - like the press conference scene."

John Lennon: “The text in the bathtub scene was spontaneous, but the idea wasn't, they turned the scene off and I just had to do whatever I could think of. Much of it is spontaneous, but in the film itself it is anything but spontaneous in the end, because you always have to play a scene up to eight times. "" It (the film) was fine as it was. We knew that it was better than other rock films. "

Paul McCartney: “That wasn't our usual way of working, we didn't write songs to order. It seemed a little ridiculous to us to write a song called A Hard Day's Night - that sounded funny at first, but a short time later we were able to figure something out. "

John Lennon: “I was driving home when Dick Lester suggested using a line from Ringo as the song title. Ringo had actually blurted out spontaneously, with a typical twist of words - a ringoism - an involuntary joke. And Dick Lester said, 'We'll take that as a title.' "

Recording dates and locations

  • 0March 2nd, 1964: London Paddington Railway Station , train ride to West Country
  • 0March 3, 1964: Train journey to West Country
  • 0March 4th, 1964: On a train and at Crowcombe station
  • 0March 5-6, 1964: Train ride to West Country
  • 0March 9, 1964: Train journey from London to Newton Abbot
  • March 10, 1964: Pub The Turks Head in Winchester Road in Twickenham
  • March 11-12, 1964: Twickenham Film Studios
  • March 13, 1964: Gatwick Airport South , Surrey
  • March 16, 1964: Twickenham Film Studios
  • March 17, 1964: At Club Les Ambassadeurs , London
  • 18.-20. March 1964: Twickenham Film Studios
  • 23 + 24-26 March 1964: At the Scala Theater in London
  • March 31, 1964: Performed live at the Scala Theater . Recorded are the songs Tell Me Why , I Should Have Known Better , And I Love Her , She Loves You and You Can't Do That (was not used for the final film)
  • 0April 1 + 2, 1964: At the Scala Theater in London
  • 0April 3rd, 1964: Twickenham Film Studios
  • 0April 5, 1964: Marylebone Station , London
  • 0April 6-7, 1964: Twickenham Film Studios
  • 0April 9, 1964: On the River Thames , Kew, Surrey
  • April 10, 1964: Twickenham Film Studios
  • April 12, 1964: Marylebone Station , London
  • April 13-14, 1964: Twickenham Film Studios
  • April 15, 1964: Exterior shots in front of the Scala Theater in London
  • April 16, 1964: St. John's Secondary School at 83 Clarendon Road, Notting Hill Gate (in the film it was a police station)
  • April 17, 1964: lm Club Les Ambassadeurs , London
  • April 18, 1964: Twickenham Film Studios
  • April 20-21, 1964: The Jack Billings TV School of Dancing , London
  • April 22, 1964: Hammersmith Odeon , London
  • April 23, 1964: Thornbury Playing Fields , Isleworth-Middlesex
  • April 24, 1964: Edgehill Road , London

Film music and soundtrack album

The following songs were played in the film, the compositions are, if not stated otherwise, by Lennon / McCartney . The titles following their use in the film:

  1. A Hard Day's Night (opening credits)
  2. I should have known better
  3. I Wanna Be Your Man (short recording)
  4. Don't Bother Me (Harrison) (short recording)
  5. All My Loving (short recording)
  6. If I fell
  7. Can't Buy Me Love
  8. And I Love Her
  9. I'm happy just to dance with you
  10. Ringo's Theme (This Boy) (Instrumental song by George Martin & his Orchestra)
  11. Can't Buy Me Love (repeat)
  12. Tell Me Why
  13. She loves you
  14. A Hard Day's Night (credits)
  • On June 26, 1964, the soundtrack album A Hard Day's Night was released in the United States . The studio album A Hard Day's Night was released in Germany on July 9, 1964 and a day later in Great Britain. In addition to the seven film songs, it also contains six other titles.
  • In Great Britain the EP Extracts from the Film A Hard Day's Night was released on November 4, 1964 , which contains four songs from the film. Two EPs were released in Germany containing songs from the Beatles' first feature film: The Beatles' Songs (September 1964) and The Beatles' Voice (October 1964).

publication

motion pictures

title format language date Label Remarks
Yeah Yeah Yeah
A Hard Day's Night 		VHS English  June 1984 MPI Home Video
 Feb 1987
German 0Sep 1 1990
DVD English Nov 14, 1997 USA only
English Sep 24 2002 Miramax Sound track 5.1 ; digitally restored film; Conversion to widescreen format; Bonus DVD with interviews with those still living in the film (excluding Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr)
German Oct 18, 2001
Blu-ray / DVD English June 24, 2014 (USA)

July 21, 2014 (UK)

Koch Media (Germany),

Criterion Collection (USA), Second Sight (Great Britain)

English soundtrack 5.1 : remixed by Giles Martin , English soundtrack 2.0 : remixed, German soundtrack in 5.1 and 2.0; digitally restored film in 4K . The German special edition also contains the feature film on a separate DVD, two bonus DVDs with various extras: In Their Own Voices (new compilation with interviews from the Beatles from 1964 with behind-the-scenes footage and photos), You Can 't Do That: The Making of “A Hard Day's Night” (from 1994), Things They Said Today (documentary about the film from 2002 with Richard Lester , George Martin and Alan Owen) as well as various other small documentaries and Specials with those involved in the film.
German July 14, 2014

Documentary about A Hard Day's Night

title content format language date Label Remarks
The Making of A Hard Day's Night Interviews and comments from contributors VHS March 28, 1995 MPI Home Video / Apple HI-FI stereo
July 28, 1998 USA only

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German synchronous files
  2. ↑ Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 15, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ Lauren Duca: 11 Things You (Probably) Didn't Know About 'A Hard Day's Night'. Huffington Post, June 2, 2014, accessed May 3, 2017 .
  4. ^ Filmdienst.de and This Week on TV . In: Der Spiegel . No. 16 , 1974 ( online ).
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j The Beatles: The Beatles Anthology . ISBN 3-550-07132-9 , p. 128.
  6. ↑ a b c d e f The Beatles: The Beatles Anthology . ISBN 3-550-07132-9 , p. 129.