A HARD DAYS NIGHT

Robert Maier
7 min readJul 10, 2019

55th Anniversary

This July, 2019 is the 55th anniversary of the American premier of the Beatles Film A HARD DAYS NIGHT. I saw it when I was 13 years old, sitting at the Timonium Drive-in in my father’s Buick with 3 friends. We had just formed a rock ‘n roll band, inspired by the release of the first Beatle albums and the Ed Sullivan Show live performance several months earlier. We came for instructions on how to grow up

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Robert Maier

Robert Maier is an educator, author and filmmaker. He has made documentaries from Honolulu to Kabul, throughout Europe, and 49 of the 50 US states.