![]() ![]() 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. 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. 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. “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. 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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