The one, the only, the fab new novel about those international sensations

The Beatles
in
A Hard Day’s Night

By John Burke

Now a swinging, gear* movie released by United Artists and starring Ringo, Paul, John and George

Plus 8 pages of exclusive photos from the movie

*Translation: the greatest

For The First Time!
THE BEATLES AS NOBODY EVER BEFORE HAS KNOWN THEM

What are The Beatles really like?  In this fabulous new novel you’ll get the chance of a lifetime to spend a whole, fantastic day with them.

  Loving and romancing, twisting and swinging, cutting up and cutting out—here are Ringo, Paul, John and George at their irresistible best.  Yeah, Yeah, Yeah!

Now a big movie starring The Beatles, based on a screenplay by Alun Owen

Printed in U.S.A.

Spend a day with The Beatles...
A crazy day...A wild day...
The most fantastic day in their lives.

When they least suspect you’re watching...when John falls in and out of the arms of a gorgeous blonde and Paul explains the facts of life to an overcurious brunette...when Ringo runs from the police and George exposes a monumental hoax on the teen-agers of the world...through every single mad moment of their day...you are right alongside them.

The one, the only, the swinging new novel all about The Beatles

Click on the chapters to start reading.

Click here for the "8 pages of pictures!"

Published by DELL PUBLISHING CO., INC.
750 Third Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10017
Copyright © 1964, by John Burke and Alun Owen
Dell ® TM 681510, Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
All rights reserved

First Dell printing—July, 1964

Printed in U.S.A.
 

This novel (not the movie itself, mind you!) is quoted no less than ten times in the Oxford English Dictionary, the ultimate authority on the English language, although few would mistake this novel for great literature.  Page references are to the British version, which seems to differ slightly from the American version.

barney: n.  a noisy dispute or altercation.
1964 J. Burke A Hard Day's Night i. 20.  'If you're going to have a barney,' said John, 'I'll hold your coats.'

caper: n.  Any activity or pursuit, spec. a fashionable occupation.  Also, a 'game,' dodge, racket.
1964 J. Burke A Hard Day's Night v. 104.  I know your caper.  The kidney punch and the rabbit clout.

gear: an expression of approval, hence as adj. good, excellent, 'great.'
1964 J. Burke A Hard Day's Night iii. 71.  'Gear!'  John jumped up from his seat.  'Come on, girls, let's have a bit of a dance.'
Ibid. iv. 89.  Once we even all sat down and wrote those letters saying how gear she was and all that rubbish.

grotty: adj. slang [shortened form of GROTESQUE a. + -Y] unpleasant, dirty, nasty, ugly, etc.: a general term of disapproval.
1964  J. Burke A Hard Day's Night iv. 88.  'I wouldn't be seen dead in them.  They're dead grotty.'  Marshall stared.  'Grotty?'  'Yeah--grotesque.'

kinky: descriptive in senses corresponding to kink of persons: perverted, esp. sexually; spec. homosexual of things or situations: suggestive of sexual perversion, as of certain items or styles of dress (e.g. kinky boots); in weakened sense, bizarre.
1964 J. Burke A Hard Day's Night i. 11.  She was dead kinky for sweetbreads.

mixer: n.  a troublemaker, slang.
1964 J. Burke A Hard Day's Night i. 21.  He's a king mixer.
Ibid. iv. 84.  'The old mixer,' growled Paul.  'Come on--we'll have to put him right.'
Ibid. v. 116.  'Look,' said Paul slowly and deliberately, 'he's a mixer and a troublemaker!'

stroppy: adj. bad tempered, rebellious, awkward, obstreperous, unruly.  Hence stroppiness.
1964 J. Burke A Hard Day's Night iv. 80.  'Have you got a licence for it?'  'Oh, don't be so stroppy.'