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John Lennon claimed the song was three-quarters his own, yet Paul McCartney insisted they wrote it together during a full three-hour session. The track emerged in April 1965 as the Beatles' seventh consecutive number one hit in the United Kingdom.
The Beatles recorded Ticket to Ride on the 15th of February 1965 at EMI Studios in London. This marked their first recording session since completing the Beatles for Sale album on the 26th of October 1964.
On the 23rd of November 1965, the group filmed promotional clips for Ticket to Ride and four other songs at Twickenham Film Studios in south-west London. Director Joe McGrath had worked on Help as an assistant to Richard Lester before creating these films.
The record topped Britain's official singles chart for three weeks and stayed at number one on Melody Maker listings for the same duration. It went straight to number one on Ireland's singles chart in its first week of release there.
The composition sits in the key of A major with an expanded variation of the AABA pop song format. Eight bars of verse and eight bars of chorus form the A section while a nine-bar primary bridge creates the B section.