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"Ticket to Ride" was written primarily by John Lennon and credited to Lennon-McCartney. In 1965, Lennon said the song was about three-quarters his, while Paul McCartney's 1997 authorised biography describes a full three-hour collaborative writing session.
"Ticket to Ride" was issued by Parlophone in the United Kingdom on the 9th of April 1965 and by Capitol Records in the United States on the 19th of April. It was the seventh consecutive number 1 single for the Beatles in the UK and reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in America.
The meaning is disputed. McCartney said it referred to a British Railways ticket to the town of Ryde on the Isle of Wight. Lennon said it described cards carried by Hamburg prostitutes in the 1960s indicating a clean bill of health.
The Beatles recorded "Ticket to Ride" on the 15th of February 1965 at EMI Studios in London. It was the band's first recording session since completing the Beatles for Sale album in October 1964.
Yes. The Carpenters covered "Ticket to Ride" in 1969 for their debut studio album Offering, releasing it as their first single. The recording peaked at number 54 on the Billboard Hot 100 in May 1970 and reached number 19 on the Adult Contemporary chart.
"Ticket to Ride" appears in the 1965 Beatles film Help!, directed by Richard Lester, during a sequence in which the band attempts to ski at Obertauern in the Austrian Alps. The song was also included in the concert documentary The Beatles at Shea Stadium.