Apart from The Who’s as-yet unrecorded ventures in pure noise, Jeff Beck, a master of controlled feedback, was about to replace bluesman Eric Clapton as lead guitarist with one of Britain’s most exciting live groups, The Yardbirds. As such, he may have been going for the effect he’d heard The Who produce seven months earlier, though it must be said that interest in the possibilities of amplified sound was very much in the air around this time. Among the first attempts to convey on record the impact achievable live by an amplified group, it was later recalled by Lennon as ‘one of the earliest heavy metal records’. As sheer sound, Ticket To Ride is extraordinary for its time – massive with chiming electric guitars, weighty rhythm, and rumbling floor tom-toms. Yet there was more to the record than unusual emotional depth. With its melancholy B-side Yes It Is, Ticket To Ride was psychologically deeper than anything The Beatles had recorded before and a sharp anomaly in a pop scene where doomy melodramas from balladeers like Gene Pitney and P.J. In the event, while British record buyers kept it at No.1 for three weeks, America was less impressed, purchasing enough copies to haul it laboriously to the top for one week before it was deposed by The Beach Boys’ cheery ‘Help Me Rhonda’. In the run-up to its UK issue, the pop press trailed it as a new departure for the group: something unusual, even uncommercial. They began with their new single, a Lennon number.Ī bitter, dissonant mid-tempo song with a dragging beat, Ticket To Ride was hardly an obvious choice for a Beatles single and there was said to be disagreement about it behind the scenes. In the week before they flew to Nassau, The Beatles met at Abbey Road to start work on the soundtrack album, returning to studio 2 on the date that Eight Days A Week arrived at No.1 in America. At this stage entitled Eight Arms To Hold You, the project was ill-conceived, swiftly degenerating into a whimsical working holiday in the Bahamas and Austria. US release: 19 th April 1965 (A single/ Yes It Is)įollowing their UK tour at the end of 1964 and another long Christmas season, the group took a month off before starting work on the second of their films. ![]() ![]() UK release: 9 th April 1965 (A single/ Yes It Is) Recorded: 15 th February 1965, Abbey Road 2. Lennon double-tracked vocal, rhythm guitar McCartney harmony vocal, bass, lead guitar Harrison harmony vocal, rhythm guitar Starr drums, tambourine, handclaps.
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