A HARD DAY'S NIGHT

This is where it began to be Beatles straight through. The rock'n'roll days are over. The songs on this album are very strong, but for a progger it might be too straight pop. A quick look at the song list, and you have to admit that no one came close to this band in 1964. In one sense it was somewhere around here that Beatles started to be progressive, not in style but in terms of leading and developing the entire music scene. Some say this is a soundtrack, but the film was all about promoting the album and the band. I have difficulties to see this as masterpiece (since there were so much left to come), but this so well worked throuht that I have to give A Hard Day's Night four stars.