A Hard Day's Night (Part 5: And a room)

(Ringo's Theme.) We get on to Ringo Starr's real introduction to the world as an actor, when everyone thought "Hey, he's not bad at this, is he?" In particular he does a great job with Wilfred Brambell in the canteen, convincing us he's slowly becoming persuaded to leave the group. We spend some time parading with Ringo, looking at his interactions with the boy and in the pub.

• A Hard Day's Night is often on BBC iPlayer, although not at the moment, and available to rent on a few streaming services. https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/a-hard-days-night There's also a good quality copy on YouTube at the moment, which might of course be taken down soon. Do yourself a favour and buy the Blu-ray anyway.
• Get Samira Ahmed's excellent book about the film, from the BFI Modern Classics series: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/hard-days-night-9781839029394/
• Ringo's handwritten lyrics to Octopus's Garden: https://www.beatlesbible.com/gallery/lyrics/lyrics-octopuss-garden_01/
• A little article about Paul McCartney's selfie from his Eyes of the Storm exhibition: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c741wvwk3qvo
• The opening sequence of Superman III, in which Gordon Rollings, having had Ringo throw a dart in his sandwich, is part of a domino rally of mishaps: https://youtu.be/P9BwmdEfrDk
• Ringo's book, Anatomy of a Murder by Robert Traver, a pen name for John D Voelker: https://share.google/ASKJ6NDsUVGkXcIe0

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