Beatles songs the beatles ticket to ride3/15/2024 Harrison’s guide vocals were recorded at the same time onto track two. The backing was recorded onto track one of the tape. Lennon, meanwhile, played the snare drum on beats two and four throughout the song. Harrison played a Spanish guitar and McCartney was on his usual Hofner bass, but Starr created a percussive rhythm on the back of a Gibson Jumbo acoustic guitar. The line-up was unusual, and documented by George Martin in his detailed session notes (originally published in his limited edition book Playback). This was Harrison’s first song to be recorded since ‘Don’t Bother Me’. The final song, ‘I Need You’, took five takes to record. The idea was dropped when the song was mixed for release. This last overdub was a guitar flourish, recorded 10 takes for the song’s ending, to be edited onto the song at a later date. Track one contained McCartney’s bass guitar and Starr’s drums track two had Lennon’s Fender electric and Harrison’s Rickenbacker 12-string track three contained McCartney’s lead vocals, with backing from Harrison and Lennon and track four had more vocals from Lennon and McCartney, tom tom from Starr, and Harrison on Gretsch electric guitar. The rhythm track for the first of these was captured in one take. The evening session was devoted to ‘Another Girl’ and ‘I Need You’. Paul McCartney played both bass and lead guitar on the song, and also reportedly suggested Ringo Starr’s distinctive drum pattern. The second featured no vocals, with the four-track take as follows: bass guitar and drums on track one George Harrison’s Rickenbacker 12-string guitar playing the main riff on two, along with John Lennon’s Fender Stratocaster track three featured Lennon’s lead vocals and tambourine, and McCartney’s backing vocals and four contained additional vocals from Lennon, Harrison on Fender Stratocaster, McCartney’s Epiphone Casino, and Starr’s tamnbourine. The rhythm track of ‘Ticket To Ride’ was completed in two takes, the first of which was a false start. As a result, although a song may appear to have been completed in just a handful of takes, it could have required a great many extra recordings before completion. From 1965 onwards, however, these additions were unnumbered. Previously, The Beatles’ overdubs had been given individual take numbers. Instead of essentially performing their songs live in the studio, they increasingly taped the rhythm tracks first, then overdubbed vocals and extra instruments onto the best takes. It spent three weeks at the top of the UK charts, and one in the US.From this session onwards, The Beatles adopted a new method of recording. The single topped the charts in many countries. Both editions were coupled with ‘Yes It Is’ on the b-side. ‘Ticket To Ride’ was released on 9 April 1965 in the UK, and on 19 April in the US. Lennon played a Fender Stratocaster, and it is likely that George Harrison played a Rickenbacker 360 12-string. He played the lines, which can be heard in the fade-out, on an Epiphone Casino hollow-body electric guitar. ‘Ticket To Ride’ was The Beatles’ first song to feature McCartney on lead guitar. They initially recorded drums and bass on track one of Abbey Road’s four track machines, then overdubbed rhythm and lead guitars (the latter played by Paul McCartney), John Lennon’s lead vocals, and then finally tambourine, guitars, backing vocals and handclaps onto track four. Whereas in the past they’d rehearsed and recorded what amounted to an ‘as-live’ performance of their songs, from February 1965 they adopted the practice of recording just the rhythm tracks, and then building from there.Īs such, although only two takes of ‘Ticket To Ride’ were needed, the song underwent a number of overdubs, revisions and experiments during the three hour session. Recorded in an afternoon session on 15 February 1965, at the first session for what became the Help! album, ‘Ticket To Ride’ marked a departure from The Beatles’ previous method of recording.Īlthough completed in just two takes, the first of which was a false start, ‘Ticket To Ride’ was the first Beatles song to be built from the ground up. Another recording, taped for the radio show The Beatles Invite You To Take A Ticket To Ride, was included on Live At The BBC. They played it during their final appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, and at their Shea Stadium and Hollywood Bowl concerts.Ī version of ‘Ticket To Ride’, recorded for the British television show Blackpool Night Out, was included on Anthology 2. It also became part of The Beatles’ live repertoire in 1965, particularly on their summer tour of America. Filmed on the ski slopes of Obertauern, Austria on 20 March 1965, it was a forerunner of the music videos which would later become widespread. ‘Ticket To Ride’ was the soundtrack to a key scene in the Help! film. Don Short, journalist A Hard Day’s Write, Steve Turner
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