{"id":11953,"date":"2011-05-24T16:11:43","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T15:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=11953"},"modified":"2011-05-24T16:13:17","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T15:13:17","slug":"peter-sellers-does-the-beatles-a-hard-days-night-shakespeare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/05\/24\/peter-sellers-does-the-beatles-a-hard-days-night-shakespeare\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Sellers does A Hard Days Night in the style of Shakespeare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Peter-Sellers-Shakespearean-A-Hard-Days-Night.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11954\" title=\"Peter Sellers Shakespearean A Hard Day's Night\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Peter-Sellers-Shakespearean-A-Hard-Days-Night.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 1965 <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peter_Sellers\">Peter Sellers<\/a><\/strong> recited <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Beatles\">The Beatles<\/a> song &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A_Hard_Day%27s_Night_(song)\">A Hard Day&#8217;s Night<\/a>&#8216; in the manner of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Laurence_Olivier\">Laurence Olivier<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Recorded for the 1965 television show &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0188074\/\">The Music of Lennon and McCartney<\/a>&#8216;, the British actor was\u00a0channelling\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HrwxS327C8M\">Olivier\u2019s famous performance<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_III_of_England\">Richard III<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_III_(play)\">Shakespeare\u2019s play of the same name<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The mix of Shakespearean delivery and Beatles lyrics makes for a hilarious mashup, decades before the concept became mainstream.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"450\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zLEMncv140s\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KL5eNHYV4Sg\">check out some outtakes here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[Via <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/mtj7A7\">Open Culture<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peter_Sellers\">Peter Sellers at Wikipedia<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metrolyrics.com\/a-hard-days-night-lyrics-beatles.html\">A Hard Day&#8217;s Night lyrics<br \/>\n<\/a>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/mkxCZb\">Christopher Walken doing Lady Gaga&#8217;s Poker Face<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/kplTxV\">the South Park mashup<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1965 Peter Sellers recited The Beatles song &#8216;A Hard Day&#8217;s Night&#8217; in the manner of Laurence Olivier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,26],"tags":[351,1729],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}