There are four I really go for : Can’t Buy Me Love, If I Fell, I Should Have Known Better – a song with harmonica we feature during the opening train sequence – and Tell Me Why, a shuffle number that comes at the end of the film.įor reasons unknown, John Lennon’s vocals in the film are different from either the mono or stereo studio versions. The Beatles mimed to it in front of 350 screaming fans at the Scala Theatre, London, on 31 March 1964. Tell Me Why was featured in the ‘studio performance’ sequence of the A Hard Day’s Night film. I think a lot of these songs like Tell Me Why may have been based in real experiences or affairs John was having or arguments with Cynthia or whatever, but it never occurred to us until later to put that slant on it all.

It was like a black-New-York-girl-group songĪlthough Lennon dismissed Tell Me Why as a throwaway, Paul McCartney later suggested the song, along with others written for A Hard Day’s Night, was partly autobiographical. They needed another upbeat song and I just knocked it off. One of the more uptempo rockers on the A Hard Day’s Night album, Tell Me Why was written by John Lennon for the concert sequence in the film.

George Harrison: harmony vocals, lead guitar

Tell me why beatles live