Of all the Beatles songs that made it to #1 in the US — and there were so, so many of them — “Ticket To Ride” is, for my money, the best. It’s the one where it suddenly became obvious, to anyone ...
The Beatles’ “Ticket to Ride” is too chilled out for its own good. The song could have been darker if only the chorus was altered a tad. A darker version of the song might have resonated more with ...
The Beatles and the Carpenters are very different artists; however, the Carpenters covered The Beatles’ “Ticket to Ride” and released their cover as a single. Richard Carpenter revealed what he did to ...
The mark of a great pop song is that it has several meanings or ways into the song, but everything in the song, every component, is synthesized seamlessly. By that definition, the Beatles’ single, ...
The Beatles have been called many things – including pioneers, innovators and icons. One thing they have rarely been called, however, is heavy metal. Still, that’s exactly what John Lennon labeled the ...
The Beatles released “Ticket to Ride” as the first single from their 1965 movie/album Help!, and the song continued their unstoppable run of success. It topped the charts in the U.S., the UK, and ...
When Kitty Oliver attended the Beatles’ 1964 concert in Jacksonville as a Jacksonville teenager, nothing noteworthy happened to her, other than seeing Paul, George, John and Ringo. The fact that ...
After spending a hard day’s night deciding whether or not to cancel a planned outdoor Beatles tribute concert because of threatening weather, organizers jammed more than 150 fans of the Fab Four into ...
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Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The Beatles, the most influential Band of the Sixties, lives on with TICKET ...
This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. ‘Ticket to Ride,’ a tribute show to the Beatles that’s currently playing ...
In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Of all the ...