![]() ![]() In addition to Lennon's lead vocal and McCartney's harmony, the overdubs included further electric guitar parts by Lennon and Harrison (on Rickenbacker 325 and Fender Stratocaster, respectively), over the verses, and by McCartney (on Epiphone Casino), who supplied the fills that close the bridges and the solo over the coda. Harrison also said that the "staggered" motion of the riff then inspired the pattern that Starr decided to play. ![]() According to Harrison, however, the Rickenbacker riff was his own idea, based on the way Lennon strummed the chord when introducing the song to the band. Author Mark Hertsgaard highlights the idea for this riff and for Starr's "jagged, whack-and-jump" drum pattern as examples of McCartney's increasing importance as the Beatles' musical director. The song's main guitar riff was played by George Harrison on his Rickenbacker 12-string guitar and was among the parts taped with the rhythm track. Musicologist Walter Everett views the recording as a radical departure for the Beatles, due to the vocals and lead guitar parts being overdubbed for the first time. The session inaugurated what author Mark Lewisohn describes as "a more serious application in the recording studio" by the group, which included taping rehearsals of each song they worked on and concentrating on backing or rhythm tracks, after which they would overdub more detailed instrumental parts. It was the band's first recording session since completing the Beatles for Sale album on 26 October 1964, after which they had toured the UK and played a season of Christmas shows in London through to mid January. The Beatles recorded "Ticket to Ride" on 15 February 1965 at EMI's Abbey Road Studios in London. Gaby Whitehill and Andrew Trendall of Gigwise have interpreted the song to be about a woman leaving her boyfriend to become a prostitute. The Beatles played in Hamburg early in their musical career, and a "ride" was British slang for having sex. McCartney said it was "a British Railways ticket to the town of Ryde on the Isle of Wight", and Lennon said it described cards indicating a clean bill of health carried by Hamburg prostitutes in the 1960s. ![]() While the lyrics describe a girl "riding out of the life of the narrator", the inspiration of the title phrase is unclear. McCartney was said to be responsible for the distinctive syncopated drum pattern of the song, and Lennon made the claim that the song was the first heavy metal record ever made. Lennon said this double-time section (with the lyric "My baby don't care") was one of his "favourite bits" in the song. The song features a coda with a different tempo. The structure of the composition is in an expanded variation of the AABA pop song format, with 8 bars of verse and 8 bars of chorus forming the A section, and a 9-bar primary bridge forming the B section. The song is written in the key of A major. In his authorised biography, however, Paul McCartney contradicts this, saying: "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." Speaking in 1980, Lennon said that McCartney's contribution was limited to "the way Ringo played the drums" on the recording. "Ticket to Ride" was written by John Lennon, although credited to Lennon–McCartney. In 1969, "Ticket to Ride" was covered by the brother and sister pop duo the Carpenters, who reached number 19 on the Adult Contemporary chart and peaked at number 54 on the Hot 100 chart with their version. Live performances by the band were included in the Beatles at Shea Stadium concert film, on the live album documenting their concerts at the Hollywood Bowl, and on the 1996 Anthology 2 box set. "Ticket to Ride" appears in a sequence in the Beatles' second feature film, Help!, directed by Richard Lester. Among music critics, Ian MacDonald describes the song as "psychologically deeper than anything the Beatles had recorded before" and "extraordinary for its time". The song was also included on their 1965 studio album Help! Recorded at EMI Studios in London in February that year, the track marked a progression in the Beatles' work through the incorporation of drone and harder-sounding instrumentation relative to their previous releases. Issued as a single in April 1965, it became the Beatles' seventh consecutive number 1 hit in the United Kingdom and their third consecutive number 1 hit in the United States, and similarly topped national charts in Canada, Australia and Ireland. " Ticket to Ride" is a song by the English rock group the Beatles, written by John Lennon and credited to Lennon–McCartney. ![]()
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