(Limelight). A Hard Days Night: Music on Film Series is the story of the making of the greatest rock-and-roll movie of all time. Beginning with introductions to the films stars chronicling their rise from a raggedy teenage skiffle band to the biggest pop act in the world the book goes on to tell how the American film company United Artists wanted to make a quick; low-budget movie starring the Fab Four so its record division could put out a motion picture soundtrack album full of new Beatles songs; in order to allow the studio to cash in on the incredible wave of Beatlemania then sweeping the planet. Director Richard Lester; producer Walter Shenson; and screenwriter Alun Owen were hired to churn out just another cheap exploitation film; but instead used the opportunity to create a startlingly fresh and original movie that broke new ground both in subject matter (instead of simply following genre tradition and sticking the band in some corny made-up plot; they had the Beatles play themselves in a narrative based on their own incredible real-life experiences) and in form (Lesters inspired; surrealist approach to the films musical numbers kicked off the entire music video revolution). Covered is the films frantic six-week shoot; the lively recording sessions that resulted in seven great new Beatles songs; and how both the film and the album met with great critical and popular success.
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