I like the middle eight to that song, though - that’s about all I can say about it.” In typical Lennon fashion he proved his own worst critic, underestimating the track’s complex subject matter and notable instrumentation. He resurrected ‘Can’t Buy Me Love’ for that sequence instead. In 1980, John Lennon told interviewer David Sheff: “I wrote that for A Hard Day’s Night, but Dick Lester didn’t even want it. While the “Can’t Buy Me Love” segment ranks among the most memorable scenes in movie history, “I’ll Cry Instead” is also a strong example of a sophisticated Lennon/McCartney composition. It was restored in a new opening collage segment for the movie’s 1986 rerelease. When Lennon presented director Richard Lester with a new composition for the segment, Lester opted for another song: “Can’t Buy Me Love.” Thus “I’ll Cry Instead,” a country-inflected tune, appears only on the soundtrack album. Next in the Deep Beatles series on A Hard Day’s Night album tracks that did not appear in the film is one song that almost graced a famous sequence.Įveryone remembers an iconic scene in A Hard Day’s Night: The moment when the Beatles break free from a television rehearsal to frolic in a field - actually Thornbury Playing Fields in Isleworth, south London.
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