Ticket to Ride
Song by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and The BeatlesWikipedia
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Oct 7, 2026
Jason CartyHOST
You know, they put out the Help album with a concurrent single from the Help album.
Jason CartyHOST
So when Help came out on the same day as Ticket to Ride, you know, so they did have form.
Jason CartyHOST
They weren't totally agnostic about taking a single off an album as long as the single came out on the same day as the album.
Jason CartyHOST
You know, Eleanor Rigby, Yellow Submarine came out on the same day as Revolver.
Steven CockcroftHOST
But no, I think for me, Daytrepper, We Can Work It Out, is such...
Steven CockcroftHOST
Such a good single.
Steven CockcroftHOST
And what I like about it is Day Tripper is a sort of continuation from Ticket to Ride, that sound.
Steven CockcroftHOST
And We Can Work It Out is very much of the sound they're exploring on Rubber Soul.
Steve ReadingHOST
It's a track which when I was growing up and was very small, I thought was about taking a boat to the Isle of Wight.
Steve ReadingHOST
We talked about the Isle of Wight earlier, haven't we? You see, the t- the track is called Ticket to Ride, and if you know your geography, you know that ride spelt with a Y, R-Y-D-E, is where the ferries from Portsmouth end up.
Steve ReadingHOST
So I always assumed, 'cause that's where we used to go a lot when I was growing up, [chuckles] that this was about The Beatles going on the Isle of Wight ferry.
Steve ReadingHOST
Well, I was a bit wrong, wasn't I? Unfortunately, it is of course Ticket to Ride, R-I-D.
Steve ReadingHOST
But it's a great track from a great album, and I think the film is a bit quirky, isn't it? But, um, there is some good stuff on there, and we're gonna hear from Paul McCartney a bit later on in the show with, uh, a solo work.
Steve ReadingHOST
Well, it's a, it's a duet actually, but, so Paul McCartney here with The Beatles, and Paul McCartney later on down the running order with a duet.
Steve ReadingHOST
I always associate this tune, um, this song to some adverts for, I think it was for a life insurance, um, company.
Steve ReadingHOST
I can't remember which one it was, but you may remember that it's people in various dilemmas and, um, as their dilemma became clear to them they used to break out and sing this particular track, Let's Face The Music and Dance.
speaker_5SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Feel a whole lot better when you're gone.
Brett VargoHOST
The Beatles volleyed back The Byrds' influence on tracks like If I Needed Someone, Nowhere Man, Ticket to Ride, et cetera.
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If I needed someone to love.
Brett VargoHOST
And bands like The Kinks and The Who incorporated some jangly elements to soften their previous hard R&B edge.
Steven CockcroftHOST
So the set list is Twist and Shout, She's a Woman, I Feel Fine, Dizzy Miss Lizzy.
Steven CockcroftHOST
Ticket to Ride, Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby, Can't Buy Me Love, Babies in Black, terrible song, I Want to Be Your Man, Hard Day's Night, Help and I'm Down.
Steven CockcroftHOST
So, you know, those are a lot of pretty old songs and really not reflective of what is about to come.
Jason CartyHOST
Yes.
28 MINS LATER
Steven CockcroftHOST
He wasn't sure whether he could play it yet because he hadn't done much on the sitar, but he was willing to have a go, as is his wont, and he learnt the bit.
Steven CockcroftHOST
So John is taking credit for the idea of...
Steven CockcroftHOST
But also he's very, you know, it's like Ticket to Ride is the first heavy metal song.
Steven CockcroftHOST
This is the first song with a sitar on it.
Roger FriedmanGUEST
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Roger FriedmanGUEST
Ticket to Ride, to their, like, to their really fabulous, you know, second part of their career, where it was Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sergeant Pepper, the White Album, Let It Be, and Abbey Road.
Roger FriedmanGUEST
So i- it's, it's...
Roger FriedmanGUEST
Uh, you can't even describe their career.
MikeHOST
Yep.
SteveHOST
Like, left-handed guy, played on a right-handed kit, did stuff that was so different and unique, um, on the kit, you know what I mean? Like, a lot of guys would've played, you know, just a straight beat on certain things, but, like, Ticket to Ride, like, [singing] like, it's, like nobody would've thought about that.
MikeHOST
Mm-hmm.
SteveHOST
Not nobody, but few people were, like, people would've just played straight beats.
Andre BowronGUEST
yeah yeah i mean it's something that you know i mean but but it's also like he's not really thinking about any of it you know like he's just playing the drums just the way he plays yeah yeah and that's that's what he i love his his explanation of of shit when when people ask well how'd you come up with like the you know the day tripper or not day trip uh the the
Jonathan PreetisGUEST
Ticket to Ride.
Andre BowronGUEST
Ticket to Ride drum beat.
Andre BowronGUEST
He's like, I just did this.
Andre BowronGUEST
Okay, cool explanation.
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And
Scott FreimanGUEST
if you listen to the original vinyl as the very end of the album is finishing and there's a heartbeat that fades out, you will hear Ticket to Ride.
Scott FreimanGUEST
And it's George Martin's orchestral version from one of his albums of performing Ticket to Ride because the tape that they used to do the final master was a tape that had been used for George Martin and a race.
Angie McCartneyHOST
Oh, my goodness.
Scott FreimanGUEST
So the Beatles are on Dark Side of the Moon.
Jake BrennanHOST
In Hold Me Tight, George Harrison strains to reach a high note in the harmony vocal, and the result is less than harmonious.
Jake BrennanHOST
In 1965's Ticket to Ride, Ringo heads into the second verse playing a completely different beat than he was in the first.
Jake BrennanHOST
In I'm Looking Through You, drum hits are missed, and there are points where the guitars slip out of tune.
Jake BrennanHOST
To George Martin, fixing these mistakes in the studio would have sacrificed the infectious energy captured on tape.
Howard KurtzHOST
And that's why it was fascinating to watch him in action, you know, especially when he was playing the drums, he was doing his thing, you know, not overpowering the drums.
Howard KurtzHOST
But if you watch and listen closely, you know, not at the concert, but on such Beatles songs as Ticket to Ride, for example, and a few others, you know, Ringo Reign.
Howard KurtzHOST
Ringo really let loose.
Howard KurtzHOST
What I was surprised at was when he, I mean, he, at the concert, he did, let's see, he did Octopus's Garden and he did Act Naturally and Boys, talking about boys now, and people were just eating it up.
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