"A Hard Day's Night" was included in the list of "100 Essential Rock Albums" compiled by musicologists Charlie Gillett and Simon Frith for "ZigZag" magazine in 1975, and is one of the "Treasure Island albums" featured in Greil Marcus's 1979 book "Stranded".In 2000, "Q" magazine placed "A Hard Day's Night" at number 5 on its list "The 100 Greatest British Albums Ever".