We almost invented the idea of a new bit of a song on the fade-out with this song 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 picked up one of the lines, ‘My baby don’t care’, but completely altered the melody. “I think the interesting thing was a crazy ending: instead of ending like the previous verse, we changed the tempo. The group's performance of the song, filmed on the ski slopes in Austria, was one of the highlights of the Help film. It’s a heavy record and the drums are heavy too. Ticket To Ride was the first song to be released from Help, The Beatles' fifth album. If you give me the A track and I remix it, I’ll show you what it is really, but you can hear it there. You hear it now and it doesn’t sound too bad but it’d make me cringe. ![]() It was pretty fucking heavy for then, if you go and look in the charts for what other music people were making. “Ticket To Ride was slightly a new sound at the time. Richard heard the Beatles number one recording of 'Ticket to Ride' one day in 1969 and decided it would make a good ballad. It was pretty much a work job that turned out quite well…John just didn’t take the time to explain that we sat down together and worked on that song for a full three-hour songwriting session, and at the end of it all we had all the words, we had the harmonies, and we had all the little bits.” – Paul McCartney Because John sang it, you might have to give him 60 per cent of it. 'Ticket to Ride' is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, written primarily by John Lennon and credited to LennonMcCartney. We’d often work those out as we wrote them. “We wrote the melody together you can hear on the record, John’s taking the melody and I’m singing harmony with it. Paul’s contribution was the way Ringo played the drums.” – John Lennon “That was one of the earliest heavy-metal records made. It was later revealed by journalist Don Short, a friend of the band, that John had coined the phrase “ticket to ride” during the band’s 1962 Hamburg trip in reference to one who was billed medically fit to ride the trains. It was also covered by Ambrose Brazelton, Camarata and His Orchestra, Leo Brouwer, The Ravers DE and other artists. ![]() ![]() Noted by John as “one of the earliest heavy metal records ever made”, Ticket To Ride indeed featured a driving riff and heavy beat and was influenced by the Kinks’ You Really Got Me. The Beatles originally released Ticket to Ride written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and The Beatles released it on the single Ticket to Ride in 1965.
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