![]() ![]() 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. I think the interesting thing is the crazy ending - instead of ending like the previous verse, we changed the tempo. It was pretty much a work job that turned out quite well. 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. We wrote the melody together you can hear on the record, John's taking the melody and I'm singing harmony with it. I remember talking about Ryde but it was John's thing. But this 'number one' business doesn't seem to stop - great while it lasts - but now we'll have to start all over again and people will start predicting funny things for the next one. There's bound to be a time when we come in at 19 (on the charts). With Ticket To Ride we were even more worried. John Lennon, Lennon Remembers - Jann Wenner, 1970 It's a heavy record, and the drums are heavy too. I don't want anything else on the album, the guitars and janglin' piano or whatever. If you'd give me the eight-track now, remix it - I'll show you what it is really, but you can hear it there. If you go and look in the charts for what other music people were making, and you hear it now, it doesn't sound too bad. I liked it, 'cause it was slightly a new sound at the time. Paul McCartney, Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now w/Barry Miles, 1998 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's contribution was the way Ringo played the drums. ![]() At least this is my interpetation of the lyrics.That was one of the earliest heavy-metal records made. This was the brilliance of the Beatles and the lyrics of John and Paul. He wants her to do right by him and her because she is pregnant. He is sad because she is going away and there is not much a poor working class lad can do. This song was told from the eyes of her young lover. Some do not ever remember who wrote what on many of the songs. (Read the lyrics.) Again all of this is up to interpitation and the Beatles themselves have given contradictory stories about many of the songs. When a young woman became pregnant she would be sent away to different towns in the country. Rmember there was a strick class system in England. It was said that many families had their own dirty little secrets that they wanted to keep private and some of those secrets were schunned away to keep a respectable family name. This goes back to the Victorian era but it was also that of the era of World War Two right around when the lads from Liverpool were born. However my favorite meaning places the song where it really belongs in a melancholy tone. McCartney was quoted as saying it was a “British Railway ticket to the town of Ryde on the Isle of Wright.” Apparently Paul had a cousin who ran a bar there.Īnother meaning was that while in Hamburg Germany the prositutes would have a card with them that was a clean bill of health which gave the person looking to have some company a “ticket to ride.” Paul later mentioned that although the song was primarily about a girl riding out of the life of the narrator, they were conscious of the potential for a double. Paul McCartney has stated that the song “ Ticket To Ride” was inspired by a trip he and John Lennon took by train to the town Ryde on the Isle Of Wight in the 1960’s. Ticket to Ride is another example of a song not just with a double meaning but multiple meanings. ![]()
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