I read that Paul came up with the drum part and taught Ringo to play it that way. Mod says about the lyrics and it’s a musical step forward too with it’s humpback rhythm and slightly heavier, more stagey guitar delivery. So if it is/was Ryde – it becomes your basic 3-way ( pun that is )….īrian C | Email | 02.21.05 – 10:11 am | # There is a very funny section in Simon Garfield’s The Nation’s Favourite where Radio 1 decide to resurrect the “Ticket To Ryde” pun for some unspeakable bit of organised jollity. Lennonword play that got “corrected” by a publishers eventual error. I’d heard that Lennon actually wrote this as ” Ticket to Ryde “, as in Ryde in the Isle of Wight. Hahaha, that will have been at my instigation, following the london bootleg orchestra’s original discovery at glastonbury…Ĭarsmile | Email | 02.21.05 – 7:11 am | # The band didn’t seem too happy with our experiment but science won the day. The irony of the LBO’s efforts is that I’d forgotten how relatively lugubrious the original is.Ī drunken Sinister crowd once attempted to Prove By Science TTR’s versatility by singing it loudly over every song played by an awful pub band in Finsbury Park. I hear you can bootleg this song with pretty much anything given a raw enough vocal style It’s not something the average adolescent could completely understand, but the song retains its appeal forty years on as most of us have by now learned exactly what it means.ĭoctor Mod | Email | 02.21.05 – 1:55 am | # I recall that some were shocked about the line “She said that living with me was bringing her down / She would never be free when I was around.” This might be one of the first suggestions of marital cohabitation in mainstream pop. There are no parental or other authority figures to blame–just him, her, and the eponymous “ticket,” and he’s trying to make sense of it all. This is well beyond adolescent romance, full of the tangled issues of adult life. There had been “resentful dumpee” lyrics before (e.g., “I’ll Cry Instead”), but this one is far more complex than any of the previous. This is, of course, a major turning point in the Beatles’ career, one that foreshadows Rubber Soul.
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