Cover is VG+ (shelf wear) Record is G+ Labels are very clean Visually Graded Tracklist Side 1 1 A Hard Day's Night 2:28 2 Tell Me Why 2:04 3 I Cry Instead 2:06 4 I Should Have Known Better (Instrumental) 2:16 5 I'm Happy Just To Dance With You 1:59 6 And I Love Her (Instrumental) 3:42 Side 2 1 I Should Have Known Better 2:42 2 If I Fell 2:16 3 And I Love Her 2:27 4 Ringo's Theme (This Boy) (Instrumental) 3:06 5 Can't Buy Me Love 2:15 6 A Hard Day's Night (Instrumental) 2:00 A Hard Day's Night is a 1964 musical comedy film directed by Richard Lester and starring the English rock band The Beatles—John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr—during the height of Beatlemania. It was written by Alun Owen and originally released by United Artists. The film portrays 36 hours in the lives of the group as they prepare for a television performance. The film was a financial and critical success and was nominated for two Academy Awards including Best Original Screenplay. Forty years after its release, Time magazine rated it as one of the 100 all-time great films. In 1997, British critic Leslie Halliwell described it as a "comic fantasia with music; an enormous commercial success with the director trying every cinematic gag in the book" and awarded it a full four stars. The film is credited as being one of the most influential of all musical films, inspiring numerous spy films, the Monkees' television show and pop music videos. In 1999, the British Film Institute ranked it the 88th greatest British film of the 20th century. A Hard Day's Night is the third studio album by the English rock band the Beatles, released on 10 July 1964 by Parlophone, with side one containing songs from the soundtrack to their film of the same name. The American version of the album was released two weeks earlier, on 26 June 1964 by United Artists Records, with a different track listing. In contrast to the Beatles' first two albums, all 13 tracks on A Hard Day's Night were written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, showcasing the development of their songwriting partnership. The album includes the song "A Hard Day's Night", with its distinctive opening chord, and "Can't Buy Me Love", both transatlantic number-one singles for the band. Several of the songs feature George Harrison playing a Rickenbacker 12-string electric guitar, a sound that was influential on the Byrds and other groups in the folk rock movement.