The Beatles Started Filming 'A Hard Day's Night' and George Harrison Met His Wife

On March 2, 1964, nearly 60 years ago today, The Beatles began filming A Hard Day’s Night. This was The Beatles’ first film, and it couldn’t have come at a better time. The band, having enjoyed success in the United Kingdom throughout 1963, were now international stars. On this day, George Harrison also met his future wife, Pattie Boyd.

When The Beatles traveled to America in early 1964, Beatlemania followed them across the Atlantic. They were at the height of their fame, and those around them decided to capitalize on that by putting the band in a movie. They wanted to do something different than typical music movies, too.

“We’d made it clear to Brian [Epstein] that we weren’t interested in being in one of those typical nobody-understands-our-music plots where the local dignitaries are trying to ban something as terrible as the Saturday night hop,” John Lennon said, per Pop Matters. “The kind of thing where we’d just pop up a couple of times between the action. Never mind all our pals, how could we face each other if we had allowed ourselves to be involved in that kind of movie?”

Source: Emma McKee/cheatsheet.com

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