![]() ![]() “Ticket to Ride” bears much more of a pop melodic structure compared to those band’s works, but Ringo’s drums and the song’s frantic ending certainly sound different than the Beatles’ earlier material.Ĭould these distinctive characteristics in “Ticket to Ride” have influenced the burgeoning heavy metal scene? With the Beatles, anything is possible. The heavy metal genre was only in its gestation at the time of the single’s release, as bands like Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple didn't arrive until later in the decade. Songfacts: According to A Hard Days Write by Steve Turner, many Americans concluded the ticket was from British Railways, and ride was the town of Ryde. It would later be featured in the Beatles film Help! and also appeared on its soundtrack.Īs for Lennon’s “heavy metal” assertion, it’s a hard claim to prove – but also can’t be fully dismissed. Released on April 9, 1965, “Ticket to Ride” spent three weeks at No. It was something specially written for the fade-out, which was very effective but it was quite cheeky and we did a fast ending. “We almost invented the idea of a new bit of a song on the fade-out with this song. We picked up one of the lines, ‘My baby don’t care,’ but completely altered the melody,” McCartney explained in the 1998 authorized biography Many Years From Now. “I think the interesting thing is the crazy ending instead of ending like the previous verse, we changed the tempo. It spent three weeks at the top of the UK charts, and one in the US.McCartney recalled that he and Lennon wrote “Ticket to Ride” during a marathon songwriting session, pointing to a change of pace at the song’s ending as its most “radical” part. The single topped the charts in many countries. Both editions were coupled with ‘Yes It Is’ on the b-side. ![]() ‘Ticket To Ride’ was released on 9 April 1965 in the UK, and on 19 April in the US. ![]() Lennon played a Fender Stratocaster, and it is likely that George Harrison played a Rickenbacker 360 12-string. He played the lines, which can be heard in the fade-out, on an Epiphone Casino hollow-body electric guitar. ‘Ticket To Ride’ was The Beatles’ first song to feature McCartney on lead guitar. They initially recorded drums and bass on track one of Abbey Road’s four track machines, then overdubbed rhythm and lead guitars (the latter played by Paul McCartney), John Lennon’s lead vocals, and then finally tambourine, guitars, backing vocals and handclaps onto track four. Whereas in the past they’d rehearsed and recorded what amounted to an ‘as-live’ performance of their songs, from February 1965 they adopted the practice of recording just the rhythm tracks, and then building from there.Īs such, although only two takes of ‘Ticket To Ride’ were needed, the song underwent a number of overdubs, revisions and experiments during the three hour session. Recorded in an afternoon session on 15 February 1965, at the first session for what became the Help! album, ‘Ticket To Ride’ marked a departure from The Beatles’ previous method of recording.Īlthough completed in just two takes, the first of which was a false start, ‘Ticket To Ride’ was the first Beatles song to be built from the ground up. Another recording, taped for the radio show The Beatles Invite You To Take A Ticket To Ride, was included on Live At The BBC. They played it during their final appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, and at their Shea Stadium and Hollywood Bowl concerts.Ī version of ‘Ticket To Ride’, recorded for the British television show Blackpool Night Out, was included on Anthology 2. It also became part of The Beatles’ live repertoire in 1965, particularly on their summer tour of America. Filmed on the ski slopes of Obertauern, Austria on 20 March 1965, it was a forerunner of the music videos which would later become widespread. ‘Ticket To Ride’ was the soundtrack to a key scene in the Help! film. Don Short, journalist A Hard Day’s Write, Steve Turner ![]()
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