The Beatles' A Hard Day's Night album gets special anniversary reissue

7 October 2024, 12:45

A Hard Day's White.

The Beatles have kept busy in recent years, and not just with their Get Back TV spectacular and shock "last song" 'Now and Then'.

The Fab Four released a special 50th anniversary edition of Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in 2017 packed with bonus tracks, and have since then been giving other albums the deluxe treatment.

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For these releases, there's been a focus on The Beatles' later years where there's presumably more in the archives.

So after Pepper we've had stacked versions of The Beatles (aka The White Album), Abbey Road, Let It Be and, most recently in 2022, Revolver.

Fans wanting a peak behind the scenes or remix of the earlier years will still have to wait, though a beautiful new release of A Hard Day's Night might help tide them over for a while.

To celebrate National Album Day, the band are releasing a special 60th anniversary reissue of their third studio album to mark its 60th anniversary.

It will be available as a limited edition on 180g white vinyl and released on October 19.

The album won't have any bonus tracks or remixes, and instead clock in at the same 13 songs and 31 minutes as when it first hit shelves back in 1964.

The A Hard Day's Night album is split between side one, the songs from The Beatles' debut movie of the same name, and a second side of songs every bit as good.

A Hard Day's Night – the movie – was a hilarious fictionalised look at the band and the pandemonium they inspired as Beatlemania began to take over the world.

This year, The Beatles also announced the release of The Beatles: 1964 U.S. Albums In Mono box set featuring eight records originally released in America: Meet The Beatles!, The Beatles’ Second Album, A Hard Day’s Night, Something New; The Beatles’ Story (2LP), Beatles ’65, and The Early Beatles