His 1965 recording of 'A Hard Day's Night' was a parody of which actor?
A Hard Day's Night (song) in the style of Laurence Olivier in the film "Richard III". Sellers' version was a UK Top 20 hit in 1965. A Hard Day's Night (song) "A Hard Day's Night" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles. Credited to Lennon–McCartney, it was written by John Lennon, with some collaboration from Paul McCartney. It was released on the film soundtrack of the same name in 1964. It was also released in the UK as a single, with "Things We Said Today" as its B-side. The song featured prominently on the soundtrack to the Beatles' first feature film, "A
A Hard Day's Night (film) we'd worked all day and we happened to work all night. I came up still thinking it was day I suppose, and I said, 'It's been a hard day ...' and I looked around and saw it was dark so I said, '... night!' So we came to "A Hard Day's Night"." According to Lennon in a 1980 interview with "Playboy" magazine: "I was going home in the car, and Dick Lester suggested the title, 'Hard Day's Night' from something Ringo had said. I had used it in "In His Own Write", but it was an off-the-cuff remark by Ringo.