The journalist, Don Short, who went to Hamburg with The Beatles in 1966, speculated that the title refers to medical cards that were handed to prostitutes who worked the streets if they were ‘clean’ and contained no STDs. The original form of the phrase was ‘ticket to Ryde’ and it stuck with Lennon for a few years, eventually becoming ‘ride’. “I remember talking about Ryde but it was John’s thing,” Macca admitted. The phrase, ‘ticket to ride’, came from when Lennon and McCartney hitchhiked to the north end of the Isle of Wight, to a place called ‘Ryde’. Whether or not Lennon wrote the whole thing has been a debate that’s been around for quite a while. The actual diary kept by one of the support band members leaves a lot to be desired and does not really have any 'deep' reflections. There are comments from fans and journalist that travelled with the Beatles on that last tour of the USA in 1966. We picked up one of the lines, ‘My baby don’t care,’ but completely altered the melody.” It is very brief with photos of ticket stubs and other memorabilia. Paul McCartney, who claims to have written a significant portion of the song, had stated: “I think the interesting thing is the crazy ending instead of ending like the previous verse, we changed the tempo. Lennon’s point is that it was the heaviest thing at the time.Īnother exciting and innovative element of the song is that it also pioneered the idea that a song can have a completely different ending to it, in other words: an outro.
It is important to realise when considering this bold claim, that heavy metal as a genre didn’t exist in 1965, and what Lennon was getting at was the way the song was structured, the instrumentation on it was so remarkably different from the rest of the rock scene.
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