It’s an easy day’s night for me, reviewing-wise, when this 1964 classic movie musical is one of the day’s TV offerings. A Hard Day’s Night is a brilliant, bouncy, bravely innovative movie, directed by Richard Lester in a way that captures all the freshness, excitement and insanity of Beatlemania. In the U.S., the soundtrack album was padded with lots of incidental music in place of some of the Beatles’ music from the film – but the British pressings, and the eventual CD releases, featured wall-to-wall Beatles classics. This movie, released 50 years ago next month, is rarely shown on TV, but watch it – five decades later, it still crackles with raw energy, and the freshness of the Beatles’ music and personalities.