![]() ![]() 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. It’s a heavy record and the drums are heavy too. 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. Intro A A I think Im gonna be sad I think its today, yeah Bm E The girl thats driving me mad is going away Fm D Fm G6 Shes got a ticket to ride shes got a ticket to ride Fm E A Shes got a ticket to ride and she dont care. It was pretty fucking heavy for then, if you go and look in the charts for what other music people were making. 403K Share 71M views 5 years ago GeorgeHarrison JohnLennon TheBeatles The Beatles performing Ticket To Ride. “Ticket To Ride was slightly a new sound at the time. 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. ![]() We’d often work those out as we wrote them. I think Im gonna be sad, I think its today yeah. Before she gets to saying goodbye, She ought to think twice, She ought to do right by me. I dont know why shes riding so high, She ought to think twice, She ought to do right by me. “We wrote the melody together you can hear on the record, John’s taking the melody and I’m singing harmony with it. Shes got a ticket to ride, Shes got a ticket to ride, But she dont care. 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. 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. ![]()
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