Eliot Van Buskirk sketches the analysis that went into decoding the opening guitar chord of The Beatles’ “A Hard Day’s Night.” He links to an audio clip as well as the detailed paper by Jason I. Brown of Dalhousie University, “Mathematics, Physics, and A Hard Day’s Night.” Seems that the boys had a little help from George Martin on piano.
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