Ticket to Ride (song)

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Ticket to Ride
The Beatles
publication April 9, 1965
length 3 min 10 s
Genre (s) Folk rock , rock
Author (s) Lennon / McCartney
album Help!

Ticket to Ride is the A-side of a single by British rock group The Beatles from their 1965 album Help! . It was recorded at Abbey Road Studios on February 15, 1965 and released in the UK on April 9, 1965 . In the list of the 500 best songs of all time published by the music magazine Rolling Stone in 2004, Ticket to Ride ranks 384.

The seventh track on the album, which lasts just over three minutes, was mainly written by John Lennon ; There are different statements about the share of Paul McCartney - while Lennon stated that his contribution was only marginal, McCartney described the development as a joint session in which Lennon contributed "60 percent". The copyright is, as usual, Lennon / McCartney attributed.

The title of the song is, like some other Beatles pieces, ambiguous and not entirely clear. Possible explanations include: a girl “riding out his life” for the narrator, a prostitute health certificate, or a train ticket to Ryde on the Isle of Wight . Possibly Lennon got the idea for the line from a spiritual with the title If I Got My Ticket, Can I Ride? The text also describes a farewell situation in which the narrator expresses his anger and disappointment that his loved one is leaving him.

Musically, there is a much harder and more demanding rhythm than in the earlier songs. With the use of tom toms and the bright electric guitar sound, the song is one of the Beatles' experimental pieces and looked very modern for its time. It peaked at number 1 on both the UK and US charts. Lennon later referred to Ticket to Ride as the first heavy metal song, but the real history of heavy metal doesn't begin until a few years later.

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During the recording session on the afternoon of February 15, 1965, a rhythm track was first recorded, to which vocals , lead guitar and percussion were then added as overdubbing . The drums were played by Ringo Starr , but the characteristic drum pattern was Paul McCartney's idea. McCartney himself played bass and later overdubbed the incisive lead guitar fills on his Epiphone Casino . It was the first time McCartney took lead guitar on a Beatles song. John Lennon and George Harrison played rhythm guitar on a Fender Stratocaster and the twelve-string Rickenbacker 360/12, respectively . Lennon took the lead, McCartney the harmony vocals .

Cover versions

The band Vanilla Fudge covered Ticket to Ride in 1967 on their album of the same name, with the typical Hammond organ sound. The Carpenters released a slow version of the piece on their album Offering in 1969 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Beatlesbible Recording Ticket To Ride. Retrieved June 24, 2012 .
  2. ↑ a b c Beatlesbible Ticket To Ride. Retrieved June 24, 2012 .