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Encyclopedia > Ticket to Ride
"Ticket to Ride"
"Ticket to Ride" cover
Single by The Beatles
from the album Help!
B-side(s) "Yes It Is"
Released 9 April 1965 (UK)
19 April 1965 (U.S.)
Format 7"
Recorded Abbey Road Studios
15 February 1965
Genre Rock and roll
Length 3:02
Label Parlophone (UK) R5265
Capitol (US) 5407
Writer(s) Lennon/McCartney
Producer(s) George Martin
Peak chart positions
The Beatles singles chronology
"I Feel Fine"
(UK-1964)
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"Eight Days a Week"
(US-1965)
"Ticket to Ride"
(1965)
"Help!"
(1965)
Music sample

"Ticket to Ride" ( file info)
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Capitol Records is a major United States-based record label, owned by EMI. // The Capitol Records company was founded by the songwriter Johnny Mercer in 1942, with the financial help of movie producer Buddy DeSylva and the business acumen of Glenn Wallichs, (1910-1971) (owner of Music City, at the... A songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics to songs, the musical composition or melody to songs, or both. ... The songwriting credit Lennon/McCartney appears on all Beatles songs that were written by John Lennon and/or Paul McCartney without the aid of the other two Beatles, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. ... In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes. ... 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Eight Days A Week is a song written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, which was recorded by The Beatles and released on their December 1964 album Beatles For Sale. ... Help! is a song by The Beatles. ... Image File history File links The_Beatles_-_Ticket_to_Ride. ... Software development stages In computer programming, development stage terminology expresses how the development of a piece of software has progressed and how much further development it may require. ...

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Help! track listing
Side one
  1. "Help!"
  2. "The Night Before"
  3. "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away"
  4. "I Need You"
  5. "Another Girl"
  6. "You're Going to Lose That Girl"
  7. "Ticket to Ride"
Side two
  1. "Act Naturally"
  2. "It's Only Love"
  3. "You Like Me Too Much"
  4. "Tell Me What You See"
  5. "I've Just Seen a Face"
  6. "Yesterday"
  7. "Dizzy Miss Lizzy"

"Ticket to Ride" is a song by The Beatles from their 1965 album, Help!. It was recorded 15 February 1965 at Abbey Road Studios and released as a single in 1965. In 2004, this song was ranked number 384 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest songs of all time. Help! is the fifth album released by The Beatles, the soundtrack album from their film Help!. Produced by George Martin for EMI Records, the album (in its original British form) contains seven songs that appeared in the movie of the same name, and seven that did not, including the most... Help! is a song by The Beatles. ... The Night Before is a song by The Beatles from the album Help!. It was written by Paul McCartney. ... Youve Got to Hide Your Love Away is a song by the English 1960s rock band The Beatles. ... I Need You is a Beatles song on the album Help! (see 1965 in music). ... Another Girl is a song by the Beatles from the album Help!. It is performed in The Bahamas in the film Help!. The track was recorded on Febuary 15, 1965, with the guitar outro overdubbed Febuary 16. ... Youre Going to Lose That Girl is a song by the Beatles from the album Help!, written by John Lennon (and credited to Lennon-McCartney) for the film of the same name. ... Act Naturally is a song originally recorded by Buck Owens and covered by The Beatles on the album Help! The Beatles version is sung by Ringo Starr and was performed by the band on The Ed Sullivan Show. ... Its Only Love refers to one of the following songs: a song written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and released by the Beatles in 1965 (on the Help! album in the U.K., and on the Rubber Soul album in the U.S.). a song released as a... You Like Me Too Much is a song by The Beatles written by George Harrison. ... Tell Me What You See is a song by The Beatles from the UK album Help! and the US album Beatles VI. Cover Versions The song has been covered by other artists, including Jacobs Trouble. ... Ive Just Seen a Face is a song by the Beatles. ... Yesterday is a pop song originally recorded by The Beatles for their album Help! (1965). ... Dizzy Miss Lizzy is a song composed and sung by Larry Williams. ... The Beatles were an English rock band from Liverpool whose members were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. ... 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... An album is a collection of related audio tracks distributed to the public. ... Help! is the fifth album released by The Beatles, the soundtrack album from their film Help!. Produced by George Martin for EMI Records, the album (in its original British form) contains seven songs that appeared in the movie of the same name, and seven that did not, including the most... February 15 is the 46th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... The legendary recording studio Abbey Road Studios, created in November of 1931 by EMI in London, England is best known as the legendary recording studio used by the rock artists: The Beatles, Cliff Richard, Pink Floyd and The Shadows. ... A collection of various CD singles In music, a single is a short recording of one or more separate tracks. ... This article is about the magazine. ... The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time was the cover story of a special issue of Rolling Stone magazine published in November 2004. ...


The song was written primarily by John Lennon (credited to Lennon/McCartney), with Paul McCartney's contributions in dispute. Lennon said that McCartney's contribution was limited to "the way Ringo played the drums".[1] McCartney said that was an incomplete response, and that "we sat down and wrote it together... give him 60 percent of it... we sat down together and worked on that for a full three-hour songwriting session."[2] Lennon said the double-time ending section (with the lyric "My baby don't care") was one of his "favorite bits" in the song.[1] The inspiration of the song is unclear, and several plausible explanations exist: John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980), (born John Winston Lennon, known as John Ono Lennon) was an iconic English 20th century rock and roll songwriter and singer, best known as the founding member of The Beatles. ... The songwriting credit Lennon/McCartney appears on all Beatles songs that were written by John Lennon and/or Paul McCartney without the aid of the other two Beatles, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. ... Sir James Paul McCartney MBE (born June 18, 1942) is an iconic Grammy Award-winning English singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who first gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles. ... Richard Starkey, MBE (born 7 July 1940 in Liverpool),[1] known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an English musician, singer and actor, best known as the drummer of The Beatles. ...

  • "a British Railways ticket to the town of Ryde on the Isle of Wight" (McCartney to Barry Miles)[2]
  • "a girl riding out of the life of the narrator"[3]
  • a phrase coined by John about the cards indicating a clean bill of health, handed out to Hamburg prostitutes in the 1960s (Don Short to Steve Turner)[3]

Other explanations[citation needed] attribute the song to the experience of Lennon's mother leaving the family when he was a child, and the possibility that Lennon was exposed, perhaps by Little Richard in Hamburg, to the Negro spiritual "If I Got My Ticket, Can I Ride?". Little Richard (born Richard Wayne Penniman, December 5, 1932) is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. ...

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Release

"Ticket to Ride" was released on 9 April 1965 in the UK and 19 April in the U.S. with "Yes It Is" as its B-side. The original single's label declared that the song was from the United Artists release Eight Arms to Hold You. This was the original title of The Beatles' second movie; the title changed to Help! after the single was initially released.[4] April 9 is the 99th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (100th in leap years). ... 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... April 19 is the 109th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (110th in leap years). ... Motto: (Out Of Many, One) (traditional) In God We Trust (1956 to date) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington D.C. Largest city New York City None at federal level (English de facto) Government Federal constitutional republic  - President George Walker Bush (R)  - Vice President Dick Cheney (R) Independence from... Yes It Is is a 1965 Beatles single, which was first released as the B-side of Ticket to Ride. It is distinctive, along with This Boy, as a fine example of The Beatles luscious three-part vocal harmonies. ... In recorded music, the terms A-side and B-side refer to the two sides of 7 inch vinyl records on which singles have been released since the 1950s. ... The current United Artists logo (a variant was used during the 1980s). ... Help! is the title of a 1965 film starring the Beatles and featuring Leo McKern, Eleanor Bron, Victor Spinetti, John Bluthal and Roy Kinnear. ...


Credits

  • John Lennon — double-tracked lead vocal, rhythm guitar
  • Paul McCartney — harmony vocal, bass, lead guitar
  • George Harrison — harmony vocal, rhythm guitar
  • Ringo Starr — drums, tambourine, handclaps
Above credits according to Ian MacDonald[5]

George Harrison is playing his 12-string Rickenbacker guitar. Richard Starkey, MBE (born 7 July 1940 in Liverpool),[1] known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an English musician, singer and actor, best known as the drummer of The Beatles. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Mod revivalist band The Jams Bruce Foxton (left) on a Rickenbacker bass and Paul Weller on a Rickenbacker guitar Rickenbacker International Corporation, also known as Rickenbacker (IPA pronunciation: ) [1]), is an electric guitar manufacturer, notable for having invented the first electric guitar during the 1930s. ...


Cover versions

After the breakup of the Beatles, Lennon proudly claimed that it was the first heavy metal song of all time;[1] given the droning bassline, repeating drums, and loaded guitar lines, he may be right, despite being less intense than later metal songs. Given this notion, it seems almost ironic that the famously wholesome Carpenters recorded a cover version of the song as a slow ballad in late 1969 for their debut album Offering, and the song charted as a minor #54 single on the American Billboard Hot 100 charts in early 1970. Hard rock pioneers Vanilla Fudge also recorded a cover version in 1967. Heavy metals, in chemistry, are chemical elements of a particular range of atomic weights. ... The Carpenters were a vocal and instrumental duo, consisting of siblings Karen and Richard Carpenter. ... Billboard can refer to: Billboard magazine Billboard (advertising) Billboard antenna In 3D computer graphics, to billboard is to rotate an object so that it faces the viewer. ... The Billboard Hot 100 is the main singles chart used by Billboard magazine. ... Vanilla Fudge was an American heavy metal/psychedelic band that recorded albums from 1967 to 1970. ...


Cultural references

Noel Gallagher of Oasis has called "Ticket To Ride" his favorite Beatles song.[6] Noel Thomas David Gallagher (born May 29, 1967 in Burnage, Manchester, England) is the lead songwriter, guitarist and occasional vocalist with the English rock band Oasis. ... Oasis are an English rock band, formed in Manchester in 1991. ...


An orchestral version of the song is barely audible in the fadeout at the very end of newer CD issues of the Pink Floyd album The Dark Side of the Moon. This is probably a mistake in remastering; coincidentally both The Beatles and Pink Floyd were patrons of Abbey Road Studios. Pink Floyd are an English rock band that earned recognition for their psychedelic rock music, and, as they evolved, for their avant-garde progressive rock music. ... The Dark Side of the Moon (titled in the 1993 CD release as Dark Side of the Moon) is a concept album by the English rock band Pink Floyd, released in 1973. ...


Notes

  1. ^ a b c Sheff, David (2000). All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono. New York: St. Martin's Press, 196. ISBN 0-312-25464-4. 
  2. ^ a b Miles, Barry (1997). Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now. New York: Henry Holt & Company, 193. ISBN 0-8050-5249-6. 
  3. ^ a b Turner, Steve. A Hard Day's Write, 80. 
  4. ^ Harry, Bill (2000). The Beatles Encyclopedia: Revised and Updated. London: Virgin Publishing, 1074. ISBN 0-7535-0481-2. 
  5. ^ MacDonald, Ian (1994). Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 112. ISBN 0-8050-2780-7. 
  6. ^ Oasis' Noel Gallagher Wants To "Live Forever".
Preceded by
"Mrs. Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter" by Herman's Hermits
Billboard Hot 100 number one single
May 22, 1965
Succeeded by
"Help Me Rhonda" by The Beach Boys

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