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So coming up, today’s featured song Ticket to Ride is pretty loaded. And by their own admission, so were the Beatles when they wrote it. There are some conflicting accounts of what inspired this one… Paul McCartney cited just an average-ordinary train ride as its source. While John Lennon credited German prostitutes. That’s right. Bet you weren’t expecting that one. Lennon would also call Ticket to Ride one of the founding tracks of the heavy metal genre. But are any of these claims true? Whether they are or not, one thing is for certain… Ticket to Ride marks a critical turning point for The Beatles in an artistic direction that would change rock and roll forever. Breaking the mold of the two-minute pop song, Ticket to Ride opened up a new world of possibilities. It’s a story you’re not going to want to miss… NEXT on the Professor of Rock.
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So if you haven’t guessed, today we’re returning with another story about a band that has thousands and a band that also still holds the record of most #1 hit ever with 20. It’s The Beatles. Today we cover one of those massive #1 hits and the story will shock you. The song is Ticket to Ride from their fifth UK album Help!. Before 1964, America was something of a barren ground for British pop, with only the occasional record making a mark. However, The Beatles like a bolt of lightning quickly changed that on February 9th, 1964… spearheading the British Invasion. Two words: Ed Sullivan.
In the weeks leading up to the show (which would be their first on American soil), multiple Beatles records had already reached the top of the US charts. And the anticipation for the Beatles touchdown in the US was monumental. When the Fab Four arrived at Kennedy Airport in New York on February 7th, they were met by three thousand screaming fans. But that was only a taste of things to come. Two days alter, 73 million people gathered in front of their televisions and tuned into The Ed Sullivan Show. That staggering number meant that 45.3% of all homes with televisions were watching the show that night. Just think about that for a moment… and of course it’s probably the most pivotal moment in music history.
That night the Beatles performed All My Loving, Till There was You, She Loves You, I Saw Her Standing There, and I Want To Hold Your Hand. And the youth across America sat transfixed over what their eyes and ears were witnessing. The effects of the Beatles performance on the Ed Sullivan Show would ripple across generations, inspiring legions of fans to pick up a guitar and start their own band. After Ed Sullivan, The Beatles reached a level of popularity that eclipsed their pre-eminence in Britain. By April, they owned the top 5 spots on the Hot 100 with Can’t Buy Me Love, Twist and Shout, She Loves You, I Want to Hold Your Hand...

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@ProfessorofRock 19 дней назад

Poll: What is your pick for the BEATLES Greatest Song?

@peterd.9978 19 дней назад

Revolution

@Code.Name.V 19 дней назад

The Long and Winding Road

@Sweet--Richard.4981 19 дней назад

That suite on Abbey Road

@rogerdeahl9629 19 дней назад

Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds. Honorable Mention -- Eleanor Rigby.

@thetitleisours1 19 дней назад

Probably not the best but my personal favorites are "I Feel Fine", "Paperback Writer", and "A Day in the Life". "Elenor Rigby" and "Long and Winding Road" are up there too

@kurtthompson5517 18 дней назад

I owe my existence to the Beatles, My Mother and Father met on a blind date at the Cavern club in Liverpool during a Beatles show in 62' I was born a little over a year later. I was weaned on the Beatles and they've always held a special place in my heart. I remember we had a promotional copy of Help I listened to over and over, my Mother said she got it at the movie premier, unfortunately it was destroyed in a flood when I was a teenager. All this I learned about 5 years ago when my father was asked by a hospice nurse how he and my mother met, a story that was never related to us kids for almost 50 years. Still love the Beatles and now I know why their music was so prevalent in our household as I was growing up. I always thought it was just because my Mother was from Liverpool (My Father was an American merchant marine) Thanks for letting me share! Keep on rockin my man I really enjoy your videos.

@maryarnold1426 17 дней назад

Beautiful story about your parents. My condolences on your loss.

@resurrectionsunday 17 дней назад

GOD Bless brother Kurt .. great story and you have a Beatle connection

@splenderella9 16 дней назад

Wonderful story Kurt! Thank you for sharing - you were blessed with a Beatles upbringing!!🤗👍😁

@sunspots6077 13 дней назад

How How How COOL!

@mollkatless 11 дней назад

Did you grow up in the US or the UK?

@monyx2926 18 дней назад

My aunt was a huge Beatles fan. She came to visit us a when she was a teenager. When the Beatles played their (last) concert at Candlestick Park in SF, she sat on our balcony in Berkeley, looking over the Bay, and cried all night because she was not there. I was very, very young, but I remember Auntie Beth's tears. It brings back both good and sad memories. I still love The Beatles' music. I send my love to Auntie Beth in the afterlife.

@sallyfuller5645 15 дней назад

My 4 sons were at that show. It was historic for them. Sorry your Aunt couldn't be there.

@monyx2926 14 дней назад

@@sallyfuller5645 Wow!! That is so cool!

@wrightmf 8 дней назад

Life magazine had an article about this concert at Candlestick, a photo shows a girl with some lawn in her hand and she is crying, "Ringo walked on this grass!" It must have frustrated your aunt as she missed the last Beatles concert. Some years ago I met an older lady who said she was one of those young girls screaming at the concert. She laughed telling that story.

@monyx2926 5 дней назад

@@wrightmf Thank you so much!

@painterpip4531 14 дней назад

Impossible to pick one. Different tracks for different moods. Being from London and now 71, their songs bring back memories now like "In My Life."

@TheWorld_2099 2 дня назад

That’s beautiful, totally felt that

@Whisper_292 19 дней назад

Reporter: "How did you find America?" Ringo (Edit, it was John): "Turned left at Greenland."

@ProfessorofRock 19 дней назад

Ha ha! Love it.

@josephblue4135 19 дней назад

It was John who said that in A HARD DAY'S NIGHT.

@danielolson5378 19 дней назад

it was their sense of humour and foremost charisma that George Martin "fell" for when he signed them. He wasn't impressed by their music at least not then. However he most surely had a sixth sense and realized they were a diamond in the rough. He loved working with them during their most creative years 1965-67.

@marktait2371 19 дней назад

yes was my favorite ringo george whats it like to be a beatle idunno whats its like not ro be one other reader may ne john hsrd dsys night but havent seen in many years

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 18 дней назад

HA! Good one.

@deekenny602 13 дней назад

Davy Jones from the Monkees was on that same Ed Sullivan show performing a song from Oliver that he was doing on Broadway at the time (he had a Tony nomination for his portrayal of Artful Dodger). He saw the reaction to the Beatles and decided he "wanted a bit of that-"

@GyppoMarx 7 дней назад

And he got it and deserved it too❤

@deekenny602 6 дней назад

@@GyppoMarx Yes he did!

@dorseyjack3206 5 дней назад

My wife went to the same school as Davy Jones, (Varna St Openshaw Manchester, England) he was a couple of years older. I have a school photo with him on it.

@deekenny602 5 дней назад

@@dorseyjack3206 I am convinced that Mark Owen (Oldham Manchester) is the missing link between Davey Jones and Harry Styles.

@bob7975 4 дня назад

I could be wrong, but I think he was the original Artful Dodger.

@johnglielmi6428 18 дней назад

I would turn 4 yrs old in June of 1964. I remember sitting on my dads lap as we watched the Beatles perform on the Ed Sullivan Show! He was cool Dad RIP dad, love ya and miss ya.

@georgecullen759 14 дней назад

I turned 5 in 64. I remember my dad sitting in his recliner calling my brother and sister to come into the living room to watch Ed Sullivan and the Beatles.

@johnglielmi6428 14 дней назад

@@nurknanker6105 Mine was 44

@josephjuno9555 12 дней назад

I was 2 yr old and remember watching it too! All those Silly teenage girls fainted and now grand mothers!

@RestingBeachFace 11 дней назад

I turned 6 that year, but was not allowed to watch that because my parents thought they were a bad influence. Lol 🤷‍♀️

@Foxx413 10 дней назад

I was 4 & my late bro Jerry was 6.

@JudgeJulieLit 12 дней назад

But the "Ticket to Ride" verse line "She said that living with me was bringing her down" implies a cohabitational relationship.

@phucknuts 8 дней назад

haven't you ever lived with a prostitute...at least for a week to 10 days?...I have

@dobythedog 7 дней назад

I thought exactly that!

@howlingwaters2741 6 дней назад

Or maybe you just inferred it😂

@JudgeJulieLit 6 дней назад

@@howlingwaters2741 I think the podcast overinferred the "prostitutes" interpretation, despite the T. S. Eliotean "objective correlative" of contraindications in the lyrics. Methinks she just bought a transit "ticket to ride" out of the relationship.

@alanfriesen9837 5 дней назад

It's possible to cohabitate with a prostitute. Many have done so.

@brynhilde8543 18 дней назад

A "Ticket to Ride" was slang for the health certificate required of German sex workers at the time the Beatles were in Hamburg. Aaannnndddd.....John Lennon was John Lennon.

@oldiesgeek454 17 дней назад

@brynhilde. Thanks for mentioning that. I had no idea it was a reference to that subject matter. On a sidenote, I'm still not sure what Day Tripper is about. 😊

@scottweissensee3717 16 дней назад

That does make sense

@brynhilde8543 16 дней назад

@oldiesgeek454 According to McCartney, a "day tripper"was slang for someone who wanted to do something a little, but are never fully commit to whatever idea or activity in which he or or she wishes to dabble. i.e. I would be interested in going to an event one town over that only takes one day, as opposed to planning a 3 week vacation to another country. McCartney used the term for people that wanted to take one puff from joint, engage in petting but not sex, invest $100 but not $1000. These people could make a song out of ANYTHING.😊

@oldiesgeek454 16 дней назад

@@brynhilde8543 Thanks so much for the explanation. So from now on, I'll know what they mean by "She took me half the way there now". 😉

@brynhilde8543 16 дней назад

@@oldiesgeek454 💯 🤪🤪🤪

@scottweissensee3717 19 дней назад

My best memory as a child is when I heard "good day sunshine " for first time on the radio. And it was a very sunny morning.

@ProfessorofRock 19 дней назад

Awesome memory!

@ChrisTian-rm7zm 17 дней назад

I first heard that song as a kid in a honey commercial on TV.

@splenderella9 16 дней назад

One of my favorite Beatles tunes! Like "Penny Lane", it evokes happy feelings!🤗😁

@davebroad642 11 дней назад

I remember when Hey Jude was a US hit. Sounded great on my folks Fisher Hi Fi receiver!

@hfjjor3681 8 дней назад

I have a similar memory: Running around the playground in first grade singing “I Want to Hold Your Hand” because the other kids were. At the time I didn’t know who the Beatles were. My parents didn’t listen to them, and I was an oldest child - so no exposure to Fab Four yet. But the song was popular at the time. So my first exposure to the Beatles was through the mouths of other children, not the Beatles themselves.

@roberthickerty390 19 дней назад

I remember when the Beatles performed on Ed. My Dad couldn’t stand them, long haired noisy deviants, I believe he referred to them. Still we boys got to watch. My brother thought they were ok (?). I was enraptured. I became a committed Beatles fan. My Mom thought they were good and might have a future. The Beatles have been my favourite band since and I still listen to them at least once per day. Another great break down, Professor.

@ProfessorofRock 19 дней назад

Thanks for sharing!

@hurdygurdyguy1 2 дня назад

Same! My babysitter said I had to go to bed (I was, like, 9) but I was able to stand on my bed and could see the living room TV through my nearly closed bedroom door... that's how I watched them on Ed Sullivan! 🤣

@dianenewton3953 13 дней назад

I remember going to a theater with a couple of friends to see the Beatles movie "Help". The screaming from the audience made it impossible to hear the sound. We were very disapointed.

@LadyWolf6692 5 дней назад

I seriously do not understand the screaming whenever The Beatles or Elvis or whoever was popular appeared on stage, at the airport, etc. But to be honest I also don't get the fascination of them (or Taylor Swift for that matter). I do like some of their songs but never liked John Lennon, and it seemed he got all the glory along with Paul McCartney, almost while George and Ringo were ignored. Yes, I know it's blasphemous to admit to not being a Beatles fan.

@TheWorld_2099 2 дня назад

Haha, that’s hilarious… But having not been there myself, it is pretty epic that you were there watching it at the time. Must’ve been very exciting.

@1oolabob 19 дней назад

True story: I was 4 years old when The Beatles were on the Ed Sullivan Show. We always watched Ed Sullivan. My older brothers were interested in seeing The Beatles that night, and my parents--very strict religious people--were there to provide parental guidance if needed. I sat on the floor-- too close to the teevee as usual--to see what the hubbub was about. I didn't hear any music when The Beatles came on. It was just hundreds of girls screaming. Years later, I learned that The Beatles had the same experience I had. They couldn't hear their music, just screaming.

@beeonthyme5760 18 дней назад

I have the same exact memory you had. I was 9.

@billhorstkamp98 18 дней назад

That’s why they quit touring. It wasn’t about the music. It was an event for teenage boppers to scream.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 18 дней назад

Haha, the screaming was so loud you could become deaf!

@scottburton9701 18 дней назад

I was five years old when The Beatles made their initial appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show" on 2/9/64-60 years later,i'm still a huge fan.

@billhorstkamp98 18 дней назад

@@scottburton9701 I was a month and three days old. But by the time I was for I was running around the house singing I want to hold your hand.😂

@BaddogSports 19 дней назад

Lol! Ticket to Ride absolutely one of my favorite Beatles songs, and I loved many of their songs!

@ProfessorofRock 19 дней назад

Very cool. Thanks for watching.

@MyName-pl7zn 19 дней назад

It's impossible to overstate how the Beatles changed popular music from the beginning to end of their time together. They one upped themselves every single album and agree completely Ticket to Ride was the beginning of their complete evolution in innovation. I still can't get enough Beatles information and breakdowns, so many firsts it is amazing to look back on. Great episode More Beatles!! I believe another turning point was Tomorrow Never Knows

@mikespearwood3914 18 дней назад

@@marktait2371 what?

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 18 дней назад

Constantly reinventing themselves every album.

@jackbassett9365 4 дня назад

I was 7 year old the night they were on Ed Sullivan. We lived close enough to the US border to get several America. None of the adults were impressed, but we weren channels. We the whole family was gathered in my grandparents living room to watch their first North American performance. The crowd was screaming so much my dad couldn't make them out

@hughb5092 11 дней назад

I was 7 when they came to NY, it was NUTS!!! I carefully sneaked out of my bedroom and watched from behind the couch. My parents were both oblivious to my presence and transfixed by what they saw. A truly unforgettable experience.

@patriciamillin1977 2 дня назад

I was 8 when they first came out in England. No one had ever seen haircuts like that before, and my parents kept saying “They look like beetles”. That never got to us, though, we were hooked. I remember walking all the way to the closest village to watch the movie Hard Days Night because the army base we lived in didn’t have a cinema.

@hughb5092 День назад

@@patriciamillin1977 How awesome an experience to be at ground zero for the “British Invasion” which changed music forever!

@patriciamillin1977 День назад

@@hughb5092 It was a good time, for sure. I generally loved the sixties, the music, the fashions, it was like everything was new.

@travismiles5885 19 дней назад

I never knew this! Now I'm laughing because when I was stationed in Germany AFN used this song in their version of a commercial to inform soldiers about public transportation in Germany.

@ProfessorofRock 19 дней назад

Thanks travis!

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 18 дней назад

Haha! Thanks for your service.

@ralfp8844 18 дней назад

That must be the reason why the 9€ Ticket was such a huge success.

@scottgetty5547 17 дней назад

haha...youre right I forgot all about that commercial....Ramstein 99-00...the red light 20 mark strasse...haha

@teresajcosgrove 10 дней назад

@travismiles5885 I was in Germany in 1979 and they still had red light districts then. I knew the Beatles had gone to Hamburg first before they came big and thought, yeah, that all makes sense. This is afterwards, of course but I do remember going through those districts on the bus to work.

@Mr3DBob 19 дней назад

As to Ticket to Ride being early metal, I think that's overplayed. Steppenwolf's 'Born to Be Wild', or Arthur Brown's 'Fire' would be far better candidates.

@odditiesparanormalmysterie1723 19 дней назад

I'd say The Velvet Underground's White Light White Heat album or even I'm waiting for my man, Run Run Run, Heroin, or Black Angel's Death Song from The Velvet Underground & Nico.

@davidrandall4182 19 дней назад

The Hollies, Long Cool Woman

@Chapps1941 19 дней назад

Dylan's "Maggie's Farm" predates them all

@josephblue4135 19 дней назад

You have to include HELTER SKELTER from The White Album 1968 !

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 18 дней назад

Or maybe even Led Zeppelin early stuff.

@Labrabulls 19 дней назад

My mom went to one of the Shea stadium shows. She said between the hysterical girls screaming & poor sound it was almost impossible to even hear the Beatles. She thinks it was cool to be there tho. She still has a copy of the Daily News announcing "55,000 Scream For The Beatles".

@joermnyc 19 дней назад

Thankfully they recorded the show from the mixing board, so it is possible to hear the band. It wasn’t until the Grateful Dead started touring with truckloads of speakers and gear (which cost them a fortune) that live venues started working on better sound for concerts.

@ProfessorofRock 19 дней назад

I've heard the same thing!

@jakeoncall 19 дней назад

I saw them at Comiskey Park in Chicago that same year. Yeah, all you could hear was screaming. Sounded like a jet plane taking off. My girlfriend and I were sitting just over third base which was where they exited. We got a pretty good look at them.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 18 дней назад

Theory: The girls were just excited to see their faces, not hear their music. 😆

@Au60schild 18 дней назад

@@joermnycFascinating. Pure melodic energy.

@pi-sx3mb 14 дней назад

"Rubber Soul" was the single most transformative album in the history of forever. "Help" was the first movie I ever saw when I was maybe 7 years old. Sitting in the back seat of a '55 Ford at a drive-in movie theater, it's one of my earliest memories of life. The Beatles breathed life into everyone and everything and the positive energy was infectious.

@johnbiggerthan2798 11 дней назад

Rubber Soul, I agree!

@koleberdinoch926 9 дней назад

The single most transformative album? Most people say that was Sergeant Pepper.

@pi-sx3mb 9 дней назад

@@koleberdinoch926 Only my opinion of course, not a declarative statement of a hard truth. Sometimes "most people" include those who hop on a band wagon because they heard the sentiment expressed, not because they've actually thought about it. If you look at the progression of the Capital releases, each successive album is an evolution, but you can connect the dots and say yes, that's the newest version of the Beatles. It's true of all their earlier albums, and it's true of Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Pepper, etc. and so on. Except for the jump from Help! to Rubber Soul. That is such a light year leap forward that you can't believe it's the same group who two albums prior (Beatles VI) was churning out tepid forgettable ditties like "Tell Me What You See". Rubber Soul didn't just catapult the Beatles forward, it influenced countless major bands who followed, and more to the point, busted the mold into smithereens and redefined the very word "transformative".

@grantkoeller8911 19 дней назад

Paperback writer was their bridge to another level.

@ProfessorofRock 19 дней назад

Agreed. So good!

@007ndc 19 дней назад

With Rain as the B side , an even more ground breaking record

@BeeWhistler 18 дней назад

@@007ndcI love that one, but wasn’t really aware of it until I’d been a fan for years. Not sure why it’s so far under the radar.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 18 дней назад

Love that one!

@ahcapella 18 дней назад

I like to think that George’s “If I Needed Someone” from _Rubber Soul_ was the bridge to the next level… _Revolver._ The “Paperback Writer/Rain” single was a product of the Revolver sessions.

@larrytanksley8730 11 дней назад

My sister rushed into our living room pushing her manual typewriter on its little stand. Ended up crashing it hurrying to see the second appearance of the Beatles on Ed Sullivan.

@Anon54387 5 дней назад

Why couldn't she just have left her typewriter behind?

@gregorymoore2877 3 дня назад

So much for being a paperback writer. 😉

@TheWorld_2099 2 дня назад

@@gregorymoore2877😂

@89Ludwigs 10 дней назад

I watched The Beatles on Ed Sullivan on a Black and White TV when I was about 4 years old. At that point they were the coolest thing I had ever seen. It profoundly affected my life. It wouldn't take me long to have all of their albums. I would spend weekends with my grandparents, and they would surprise me with a new album when I went there. They liked the fact that I liked their music because it kept me occupied, and I would listen to them for hours rather than complaining about being bored. I would eventually become a life long musician because of the Beatles. I learned to play drums by playing along to Beatles records. I also begged my grandmother to take me to Shea for the concert. I was told my grandfather had to get up early for work the next day, and we couldn't go. It would have been epic. I did what little kids do. I cried because we couldn't go see the Beatles. That would be my one and only chance. I'll be 65 in October. I remember these things vividly as if it was yesterday.

@TheWorld_2099 2 дня назад

That is a tragic and epic story, thank you for sharing that…

@Paul-dw2cl 19 дней назад

it’s crazy how ‘Help!’ and ‘Rubber Soul’ were released the same year, just a few months apart

@ProfessorofRock 19 дней назад

Masterworks!

@LorenIpsum75 18 дней назад

Loved the "Help" soundtrack. Disliked the script because of the "brownface" subplot. 🙄

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 18 дней назад

Considering they’re so wildly different.

@carlmoore3215 18 дней назад

U.S. version of Rubber Soul? That's the version Brian Wilson had in the run-up to Pet Sounds. The British Rubber Soul represented not-as-sharp change.

@allrequiredfields 17 дней назад

@@LorenIpsum75 Oh God, go pretend to be offended somewhere else

@jasonmckenzie2835 19 дней назад

Why is Ringo such an underrated drummer? Its ridiculous. What he accomplishes on his trademark small drum kit with Ticket to Ride is unbelievable.

@optimisticpessimist484 18 дней назад

Ringo is a remarkable drummer.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 18 дней назад

Such a talent.

@FATmonkeyCHRIS 18 дней назад

Many of today's drummers site Ringo as major influence. Dave Grohl, Stewart Copeland, Phil Collins, Carime Appice, Chad Smith, and Mike Portnoy, to name a few

@Gekokujo76 18 дней назад

It reminds me of that Futurama quote when God says to Bender "When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all ". Keith Moon and John Bonham were GREAT drummers, but that wasnt what "Ticket To Ride" or many other Beatles songs needed. Ringo was able to put what was "needed" into the soup....a recipe he probably had little say in creating while John and Paul wrote the song and George fought to add some ingredients too. Ringo didnt fight...didnt let his ego get in the way...didnt need a Moby Dick drum solo...and added the perfect ingredient to the soup.

@FATmonkeyCHRIS 18 дней назад

@Gekokujo76 ❤️ perfectly said. Moon and Bonham couldn't have played in the Beatles and made it work, though they were exactly what their bands needed. Could you imagine the Who or Zep with Ringo on the throne? Each were the perfect chefs for what they were cooking.

@caryleez 19 дней назад

Just wanted to tell you how much I appreciate your channel, Professor. Love the rotating vinyl behind you, and seeing the Muppet Movie soundtrack there made this GenXer happy!

@ProfessorofRock 19 дней назад

Very cool! Such a classic!

@marktait2371 19 дней назад

i haveuppets john denver giving to nephew packed with 70s nashville legends ba king and james burton on electric guitar

@zeorihuela5460 19 дней назад

All of them are great songs. I grew up with them, I was 5 when I met them (1962). My elder brothers and I usted to listen to the radio shows. In México there were 3 shows daily. We still have 1 radio show at 6 a.m. I love them! She's leaving home is probably my favourite. Thanks for sharing. Hugs!

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 18 дней назад

You met these guys? Seriously!

@Slap_Shot1977 18 дней назад

My brother was born in 1962 and I in 1967. He was old enough to know the Beatles by the time they broke up, but he became fan thanks to my dad and I tagged along for the ride through the years. They both "made me" listen to their records, but it wasn't long before I joined along with their fandom whole-heartedly. Sgt. Peppers was my first full-blown dive into any of their albums and I have been hooked ever since. I don't think any band has come close to generating every emotion there is while listening to their music, but despite much of their message being heavy, the most common emotion I had was that of pure joy. To this day when I listen I still find something new and exciting even after all these years. Fools call them overrated, those of us in the know understand why they are considered the greatest band of all time. Thanks PoR for another tremendous video to add to your vast catalog of learning and celebrating the joy of rock and roll.

$@fractalelf7760$

@fractalelf7760 8 дней назад

Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields always give me a mystical feeling. I was born in 1965, so I missed every bit of them together sadly.

@CaptRobertApril 18 дней назад

The story I'd heard about the basis of Ticket To Ride is that it was a reference to a home for unwed mothers, likely on that island Paul referred to. Basically, having a "ticket to Ride" meant you'd gotten pregnant out of wedlock and your family wanted it kept quiet.

@norcalsportsguy 17 дней назад

Now it's commonplace.

@farrellmcnulty909 18 дней назад

5:18 ADAM! You are the BEST! I love this smiling out take of the Beatles for Sale cover. I'm surprised no one's ever thought to put this on a bootleg. In all my years of buying "Imports", I'd never seen such a design. Thank you - three chords and the truth, my friend.

@timothyphelps4394 19 дней назад

Love your show and the in-depth reporting on all the great artists and their songs. Keep up the great work! You ROCK!!! 🎸

@ProfessorofRock 19 дней назад

Thank you dearly!

@deltatango5765 18 дней назад

I was one of the millions watching The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show. It was that moment that I went from a casual fan to obsessed. Even my mother, who never watched TV, had to stop what she was doing to see what all the excitement was about. The thing I remember most about that, was the phone ringing right after The Beatles performance and my mother answering and saying something like, "I know, they look like girls with that long hair!" For years, when it came time for a haircut, my brother and I begged my mother to let our hair grow and cut it like the Beatles. Unfortunately for us, she never gave in. I was so jealous of my friend who had "cool" parents who let him do it. Years later in 1976 I got to see McCartney and Wings in Boston. It was an amazing show, and when they did Lady Madonna, The Long and Winding Road, and Yesterday, it was by far some of the best stuff I have ever seen. The laser light show during Live and Let Die blew me away. The only thing that ever beat that was ELO's light show, but that's another story.

@user-gk4pt3ys4d 19 дней назад

This channel is beautifully done. With such quality, most episodes would only post weekly. You and your crew amaze me with the quality of content and knowledge that you share. You make it look effortless, when we all know that it's a lifetime of work and passion. Thank you Adam and crew.

@ProfessorofRock 19 дней назад

Wow, thank you!

@davewilkins3799 19 дней назад

As an undiagnosed kid with ADHD and a severe phonological learning disability, my difficulty spelling was legion, especially in the days before “spell check”. I was in my 40’s before I realized “Beatles” wasn’t how you spelled beetles.

@rubyredtootsies8371 19 дней назад

😂😂😂😂

@FATmonkeyCHRIS 18 дней назад

❤ love that! Thank you for that sweet story.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 18 дней назад

I have ADHD too, and it’s confusing.

@galenswenson9785 18 дней назад

I thought there was 8 days in a week until 3rd grade.

@twalrus1 18 дней назад

dyslexia Beatles joke: "Number 6" "Number 6" "Number 6" "Number 6" "Number 6" "Number 6" "Number 6"

@billmoran3812 3 дня назад

The Beatles took American popular music from the rather formulaic sound of the 1950’s to modern rock. More than any other band or artist, they fundamentally changed music for the next generation. And that change happened literally overnight. None of us at the time knew what was happening, but music was never the same after 1964. It was simply a case of the right combination of talent being in the right place at the right time. I’m glad I experienced it all in person.

@lockedonlaw 19 дней назад

I always assumed this was about a girl with a ticket to ride the short bus, since she didn't care.

@ProfessorofRock 19 дней назад

The real meaning... is crazy.

@CowGirlKat8691 19 дней назад

🤣😂

@ratagris21 19 дней назад

Now we know and she still doesn't care to this day!

@einerreklov4304 18 дней назад

I always thought it was about a girl the Beatles were tired of, they bought her a ticket to get lost and she felt the same thus '...she don't care'.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 18 дней назад

Me too! Turns out…it’s more complex than that.

@gabevee3 10 дней назад

Back in the early 1980s, on the radio one DJ introduced this song after playing "I know what Boys like" (The Waitresses) and said it gave new meaning to the song "Ticket to Ride". And to a naive 20 year old, it did. But now you confirmed it really did mean that.

@destinypirate 4 дня назад

Help is one of my earliest musical memories as a young boy in the 70s I played the single on my little record player in the box and I was just mesmerized by the melody and the emotion in John's voice. Causing me to miss the school bus one day. So I just stayed home listening to The Beatles all day... I was 8 years old and I got into a bit of trouble for it, but it truly happy musical memory indeed.

@56eddieb 19 дней назад

When Ticket was released, it was originally listed as from the movie 8 arms to hold you

@neverthemachine4evr868 19 дней назад

The Beatles were one of the first rock groups that said that they will never play a concert (which was mostly in the southern US at the time) in a segregated concert venue. If they had a segregated audience they would not play at that venue. Pretty awesome!

@ProfessorofRock 19 дней назад

Doesn't surprise me!

@LaManteca76 19 дней назад

That's so awesome! 😀

@marktait2371 19 дней назад

yes theres a account of that in my mojo book

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 18 дней назад

And now I love them even more.

@littleogeechee223 18 дней назад

Well, the South probably didn’t want them around anyhow.

@Sweet--Richard.4981 19 дней назад

I was 5 when my parents ushered me into our basement to see them on Ed Sullivan , 8yrs later I had to get their approval to buy Let It Be album for a friend's birthday gift. It might be too subversive 😅

@ProfessorofRock 19 дней назад

Very cool. Thanks for sharing Richard.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 18 дней назад

Haha!

@ChefDuane 18 дней назад

Always learn something about the times I grew up in from The Professor. Watching the Beatles as a kid (I was born in '59) and as a teenager I just thought they were a famous rock band. Only now and when the Professor gives the back story like this do you begin to learn about the interesting times you grew up in. Thanks, man. And though my older sister still has most of her Beatles albums, I was able to score Rubber Soul from her. On original vinyl of course.

@MegaSnakegirl 18 дней назад

I was 8 years old when the Beatles first appeared on Ed Sullivan, and my sister was 15, and we knew that night that nothing was going to be the same! No two albums sounded the same, they never got stuck in a rut, they evolved so quickly into masters of their craft. Ticket to Ride was never one of my favorite songs, but I can't think of a song that I hate either. My husband and I raised our girls from in utero on the Beatles, they used to steal my cd's to listen to them growing up, and now we're building up their vinyl Beatles collection for them (because we're still using ours!) We got to see Paul in concert when I first found out I was pregnant with my youngest, and now she's a lawyer for a nationwide entertainment promotion company and goes to concerts all the time!😉

@splenderella9 16 дней назад

You're family is blessed!🤗

@splenderella9 16 дней назад

...your...

@AlyoshaKaramazov. 19 дней назад

For a very long time "Ticket to Ride" was my favorite Beatles song. It's my #2 now; I raised "Here Comes the Sun" to the #1 spot.

@richarddevine205 19 дней назад

If the pot back then was as good as it is now I don't know how much Beatles music we would have had. Beatles were always good from the first time my older sister started listening to them. Rubber Soul, which I just call their love songs album would be my favorite though. Every song on the US album is still incredible. I still listen to them 2-3 times a month while smoking a joint at 68yrs old and recall the days of my life back then. That in itself is the essence of music for me. The ability to time travel back in life and experience it again and again. My first concert was Credence Clearwater Revival, my first festival was California Jam 1. Music was incorporated in every aspect of my life so I have just a ton of memories that any given song can recall from me. With the diversity of great music back then before genre was really a term I am not locked into just one style of music. It's what I have grown to love about music as I near the end of my 7th decade, the transition of me to my younger self.

@JDBodine 19 дней назад

I was about four years old and I remember being at my aunt’s house sitting with my cousins watching the Ed Sullivan Show anxiously waiting for the Beetles to come on. I was a rock and roll fan even then, and they didn’t disappoint.

@doaver2.125 19 дней назад

I was 2 years old, when I saw them on the Ed Sullivan Show, and that was 14 days before my third birthday. , told my mother I wanted a Beatles Wreck-It and I wanted the hairstyle. My mom got me the record " She over You", and she explained to me that there was no way that I couldn't get a Beatles hairstyle because I had a different hair texture and it was going to be impossible for me to get that hairstyle. I've always had John Lennon, thatls my favorite Beatle. It's also rare that each member of a band will all have number one hits after that band disbanded.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 18 дней назад

The Beatle, I call this hairstyle.

@transformationgeneration 18 дней назад

Even more rare is that every member of the band sang lead on at least one #1 hit as a Beatle. George "Something - Ringo "Yellow Sub" - John/Paul all the rest.

@artguti1551 18 дней назад

I was two years old when the Beatles played Ed Sullivan in 1964. But my Mom and Dad didn't watch the program.

@doaver2.125 18 дней назад

@artguti1551 I'm sorry to hear the reason you missed The Beatles performance on The Ed Sullivan was because of your parents. That moment was and probably still in the top 10 of Great Moments in history.

@vanessahenry7238 19 дней назад

I had all the original albums, even a copy of the Butcher cover. Sadly some were stolen and the rest of my collection of albums (wild fires in Northern California are unforgiving) that consisted of almost 1500 pieces of vinyl (33's, 45's and even 78's) went up in flames. One of the reasons I miss albums so much was a I was one of those that paid attention to liner notes. I love your shows and your in-depth history you bring!

@marktait2371 18 дней назад

sorry for your loss my brorher and i sold our 1000 07 todsy wed be rich friends oldest brother had butcher numbered white peppers soul his dad put them in a shed we cleaned out ahhh all ruined water damage we never had any stolen but a upd box got misplaced moving last 40 50 maybe

@sdriza 15 дней назад

hate to hear that, but the most important thing was your enjoyment of them the stuff will all be dust in the future anyway - our time here is brief

@robertkirchner8857 18 дней назад

The 6 years of Beatles music from 1964 to 1970 went from the the innocent songs like "I want to hold your hand", Help and transformation to "Heltr Skelter." This short and revolutionary period transformed classic rock through the next generation of music. Sergeant Pepers was the the album that had a major impact in Rock.

@nigelsheppard625 12 дней назад

In the UK we had the Beatles for TWO YEARS longer 😂😂😂

@howlingwaters2741 6 дней назад

*After the Rolling Stones😂

@davidkeller6156 13 дней назад

I was a senior in high school at the time. Some of my friends started singing their songs and went to a local radio station and sang one on the air. People today have no idea the effect they had on music back then. Guys were styling their hair after them, bought shoes like they wore, started playing guitar, etc. Even my aunt loved the Beatles.

@DC8091 19 дней назад

Among my favorite Beatles songs, probably my favorite of their earlier work. The combination of “dark” guitar parts, tempo & melody changes with slow powerful drums, this is DEFINITELY a pioneer to hard rock & metal!! 🤘🤘

@ProfessorofRock 19 дней назад

Thanks my friend. I agree.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 18 дней назад

It’s such a memorable song. They make it so complex yet so simple.

@randybarrier7639 18 дней назад

How did they do it? The demand for them especially from 1963-66 was eminence. They were so busy…. Yet they still continued to write those unbelievable songs . They were only in their 20’s. Unbelievable. They set the bar for sure.

@skxj 13 дней назад

Theodor Adorno and Tavistock is how they did it.

@michaelharmon5991 7 дней назад

Speed and weed.

@gioknows 18 дней назад

Ah there'll never be another group like these guys. They were innovative in so many ways you would need a series of videos just to discuss them. "Ticket To Ride" is such a great song. Cheers from Ottawa, Canada🍁

@alanwhitworth3633 19 дней назад

... You did them justice .... growing up as a teenager in the UK at that time was unforgettable, everything was new and fresh, especially the music, fashion, and the future, and the Beatles forged the way ahead, as they constantly changed their music with every new song

@splenderella9 16 дней назад

It was like that in Canada too, where I grew up at that time! EVERY day was a "Beatle" day!!🤗

@black_rabbit_0f_inle805 19 дней назад

Yellow Submarine was such a crazy movie.

@astralclub5964 19 дней назад

Blue meanies!

@marktait2371 19 дней назад

yes the blue meanies i have the cutout of movie artwork logo they showed the movie at midnight whem we were in school

@black_rabbit_0f_inle805 18 дней назад

40000 leagues beneath the sea it lay or lie. Pepperland

@dabbozknowz4845 19 дней назад

Taylor Swift is talented, but she cranks out 5:39 what I call formula music. And she writes songs with dozens of other people. The Beatles had 4 songwriters. They played their instruments. Today's "music" doesn't come close.

@ProfessorofRock 19 дней назад

Agreed. The Beatles started everything.

@RBS_ 19 дней назад

"...today's Music..." !??? ...what's THAT!?? ...ha-HAAA!! 😆/ 😁

@tristramcoffin926 19 дней назад

I remain confounded as to why TS is so popular. I'm not dumping on her. I would sincerely like to understand

@floepiejane 19 дней назад

@@ProfessorofRockwell, they'd mention tons of others, but Dylan's influence took them from a pop boy band to cultural heroes.

@RBS_ 19 дней назад

@@tristramcoffin926 .....I'LL tell ya... 1. Privilege 2. shares of stock in the Target Stores 3. She's the ONLY 'Pop' chick out 4. She's the Only one CONSIDERED 'Pop' 5. she owns the G-ys...who own, 'Pop' 6. BLONDE ....did that help!? ..ha-HAA!

@tooleyoclock 19 дней назад

No comparison, indeed. Bealemania will NEVER be matched. Four complete nobodies launched a revolution that dictated EVERY aspect of culture WORLDWIDE. Music, Art, Film, Fashion, Hair, Comedy, Literature. They were the Genghis Khan of 20th Century Pop Culture. They took no prisoners and were met with little to no resistance. Just Four Lovable lads from Liverpool who had a brilliant vision and carried it out with such rollicking pageantry.

@ProfessorofRock 19 дней назад

LOVE your comment. So true. Amen Amen Amen.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 18 дней назад

Classic example of best friends bonding over their love for music.

@dorseyjack3206 5 дней назад

1963 Dingwall Town Hall, Scotland. Only 19 people attended a Beatles concert The Melotones, were playing on the same night at the nearby Strathpeffer Pavilion, (5 miles away) and drew a crowd of over 1,000. A plaque hangs outside the door of the concert hall to commemorate the Beatles and their 19 fans in Dingwall to this day.

@JoshMaxPower 12 дней назад

Professor, I just want to say I love your channel and what you do. As time goes by and both the classic rockers and their original fans begin or sometimes are at the end of their walk into that final sunset (some are dead and some are living!) we can come to your page and just hear a regular guy talk with a lot of respect, joy and enthusiasm for this very special music that changed my life as a boy, and interview legends. I'm sure people in years to come who are newly enamored of the Beatles, Stones, Who, Zeppelin, Hendrix, Floyd and all the rest will appreciate your work long after we've all moved onto other realms! Perhaps to"Tangerine trees and marmalade skies." ir maybe it'll be a places where "The leaves are falling all around/It's time I was on my way/Thanks to you I'm much obliged/For such a pleasant stay. PEACE!

@ianstradian 10 дней назад

I’ve enjoyed music from the Beatles throughout my life, but because I grew up in a family that loved the Fab Four I rebelled and only listened to The Who.

@joermnyc 19 дней назад

I love Paul’s clever version, “She got a railway ticket because she moved to Ryde” (on the Isle of Wight)😂

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 18 дней назад

Haha, love it!

@ralfp8844 18 дней назад

Perfectly out of sight.

@gregorymoore2877 3 дня назад

...if it's not too dear.

@laurynaspeluritis2378 18 дней назад

What a coincidence. I just got back from my parents. I recently bough "Help" on vinyl as a gift for my dad and today we sat down and listened to it from start to finish. What an album! Thanks for the video!

@ericboes1012 18 дней назад

Rubber Soul was the first Beatles Album I ever heard, and I fell in love with it. On a side note...I must say, I get a kick out of seeing what albums you stash behind you for each episode...

@stephenbrown4211 19 дней назад

I presumed it was about a girl leaving on a bus, probably from the terminus at the top of Penny Lane, instead of staying with a Beatle. Johns explanation is most likely tongue in cheek

@ProfessorofRock 19 дней назад

I don't know. Could be!

@AshleyReynolds-vc6ly 19 дней назад

Not a bus. A train.

@BeeWhistler 18 дней назад

The beauty part about music, and all art, is that you can take it any way you want. Bus, train, prostitute, girlfriend, whatever. I get that music can be used to send an intended message (which is why I roll my eyes at gatekeepers who sometimes say you can’t understand what a song is saying unless you’ve experienced it… isn’t that what art is for?) but you can also hear a song with a fairly neutral set of lyrics and read it however it hits you. And this song never gets too specific.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 18 дней назад

Maybe they hadn’t even thought of Penny Lane yet?

@sugarnads 18 дней назад

@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980penny lane is a real place.

@Heene1028 19 дней назад

I love anything Beatles… Thanks Adam!❤🎉

@ProfessorofRock 19 дней назад

Thanks for watching.

@toddbonin6926 19 дней назад

Professor, you really are absolutely AMAZING!!! Your videos never disappoint.

@DosBear 19 дней назад

I remember seeing Yellow Submarine in the neighborhood movie theatre. I was 3 when they were on the Ed Sullivan Show & I'm sure we probably had it on our old black & white TV at the time. This was a time we all played our little 45's with the little yellow centerpiece and I recall The Beatles being part of our collection at the time. We had 3 speeds, 33, 45, & 78. Oh the memories. lol

@ProfessorofRock 19 дней назад

Great memories! Thanks for sharing!

@LazyIRanch 19 дней назад

We are the same age! I was also three when the Beatles were on "Ed Sullivan". I don't remember, but my older sister was a huge fan of the Beatles, and our family always watched Sullivan's show. There was some great entertainment on that stage! I was eight years old when I saw the stunning Miriam Makeba perform "Pata Pata" on Ed Sullivan's show in 1969. I'd never heard or seen anyone like her and fell in love with her sound, she sang in an African dialect (Xhosa) aka "click" language. I still love her music, and "Pata Pata" is one of my favorite antidepressant songs. Sullivan seemed like an unusual man, but one who knew talent when he heard and saw it. I love that he brought a world to us from outside the USA that we may not have experienced otherwise.

@LazyIRanch 19 дней назад

Wow, Bob, there are still music stores? That makes me happy! I'm going to look up that Fifth Dimension album now. I always get great recommendations from other music junkies in the comments!😉 I spent many hours in my youth at "Bill's Records and Tapes" and "Half Price Books and Records", searching for forgotten treasures. When I was a teenager, I bought a Bo Diddley album just because I loved the album cover and the song titles. The gentleman behind the counter grinned when he saw it, and I asked him if this guy was "good". He grinned even more and told me he wished he could be me for a few minutes, hearing Bo Diddley for the first time. He wasn't exaggerating! I couldn't believe such wonderful music had never crossed my path before. I still have that album, hanging on the wall next to my autographed "Rockpile" album. I was sad when a friend told me that "Bill's" was closing. I had moved 1500 miles away from Dallas, so I couldn't pay a last visit to the store I loved. However, he was selling items on eBay from the store, and I spotted the Nick Lowe wall poster, a rare one with him surrounded by Joshua Trees, and snagged it with the highest bid (which wasn't much, fortunately). Bill wouldn't sell me that poster back in the 80s when it was on the wall of his shop.😊

@jakeoncall 19 дней назад

I remember seeing them on Ed Sullivan. I also remember listening to Hound Dog by Elvis on a 78 rpm my mom bought me.

@marktait2371 18 дней назад

@@LazyIRanchyeh lazy we have a large indie store new used vinly used cds cassettes gift shop tshirts posters books huge selection a tiny one man shop 60s 70s 80s all used other indie new used vinly used cds another punk hio hop stores thriving i go to large indie surf recent bin one record get inner sleeves outer protectors brushes wipes cleaners i got there they can special.order also

@CraigGrant-sh3in 19 дней назад

I watched them on ED Sullivan. I was five or six. The Beatles wanted to play the Hollywood Bowl. No one would touch them. They wanted $25,000. You could get Sanata and others for $10000 or less. Then radio DJ Bob Eubanks and a friend went to every bank for money and were laughed out the door. Finally a mom and pop bank fronted them and they promoted the Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl and for the next three years. Eubanks says drugs ruined them.

@ProfessorofRock 19 дней назад

Thanks for the history Craig!

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 18 дней назад

Turns out, you got to export more than you import!

@JamminClemmons 18 дней назад

@@captng What’s interesting about (you people) & your alcoholism is that just a few years before the potato famine, Ireland was the site of a massively successful temperance campaign led by the noted Catholic priest, Theobald Mathew. So successful was this campaign that between 1838 and 1841, national alcohol consumption was cut in half.

@captng 18 дней назад

@@JamminClemmons jealous much Jenny? I'm just saying I measured Donald j Trump with the same stick of that I would Joe Biden... Neither one completes a speech without looking at a teleprompter. Neither one has any idea what they're talking about. can you name one person that Donald Trump has ever been loyal to? The only two family members that actually why do you even be seen with him is Don Jr and Eric. I stand with Ivanka,Melania and Barron when they say "Donald was bs ing me about stolen election" he lost in 2020 has no evidence but a story. Claims that bites doj is out to get them and the doj was sent to assassinate him.. ninja please shut up and sit back down if that was true your immunity would let him go ahead and do that but he knows he doesn't have immunity. If only he gave his stolen documents back like the other smart fellas named Biden and pence. No court Case If only he admitted to the casual sex with Eugene Carroll or at the very minimum stop talking nonsense about her he would be 75,000,000 richer. Again why Donnie didn't you show up for court? Going to Ireland nonsense. If somebody accused me of rape and defamation damn well know I'm showing up for court because he said it was beneath him...nonsense. Let's go with the pornstar he paid the hooker with the wrong checkbook that was his only problem. Saying that she had light bulb tits and he never knew her while I was the yacht captain that day for the casinos. Century championship golf at Edgewood Tahoe.. what a powerful men hire hookers and he was motorboating that one. Again he just was a sleazy guy who paid with the wrong checkbook. The guys are complete walking disaster. I don't know of anything during his presidency that was positive his economy based on numbers is equal to biden's at the very best

@mossygreen2790 18 дней назад

Well, certainly for John, as he ended up with a bad heroin habit & was doing lots of other stuff as well. Paul, was more of a "puff" man. No wonder John & Keef Richard became close mates, though Keef has always shown a lot more respect for the people he interacted with. John seemed to show some cruelty, but it goes back to his troubled childhood.

@i-Maven 18 дней назад

I appreciate your story behind songs format. It’s cool to know the background.

@MariTeabag-lf1ly 4 дня назад

These were the days when we would go to our local electrical shop, order our 45rpm record, pay 6 shillings & 8 pence then patiently wait for 6 weeks for it to arrive. We were in mid-Wales so they took a time to come. My other source was the local cafe’s juke box. Used records were sold for a discount as the middle was punched out. You could buy a plastic insert, clip it in the middle & play the record on our record player. You could stack 6 records on our player and they would drop & play one after the other. Another trick was to park the middle arm & the same record would play over & over. We were in the ‘under the bedclothes club’ too. We had a small Transistor radio (Tranny) and could tune into Radio Caroline or Radio Luxembourg to catch the latest music. The DJ’s talked over the beginning and end of the record so we couldn’t record the whole tune. Often the music would fade in & out & was quite scratchy but we loved it. Then the best of all was Top of the Pops, the occasion of the week, in black & white. Fab.

@MitchBast-xu7jg 19 дней назад

I love the Beatles. Paperback writer is probably one of my favorite all time songs from ANY band. It rocks!

@ponzo1967 19 дней назад

The pace and quality of their music still blows my mind. I always assumed her "Ticket to Ride" was her lady parts Lol

@ProfessorofRock 19 дней назад

Gotcha! Thanks Ponzo!

@ponzo1967 19 дней назад

Or John was her ticket to ride through life, seeing how he was a massive success by that time, and his woman doesn't even appreciate him.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 18 дней назад

Now that’s pretty raunchy!

@ponzo1967 18 дней назад

@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 I know 🤭😕

@st.anselmsfire3547 18 дней назад

This was where the Beatles went from solid pop act to legends.

@arthurblackhistoric 18 дней назад

When I was growing up, the toilet in our home was (and still is) at the back of our house, and therefore the closest room to the Wade home. Gary Wade and his older brother had appropriated the shed in their back yard as the rehearsal room for their band. They played heaps of Beatles songs, and they were very good at them! I dunno where they got the songs, but they were playing Beatles hits before any of the rest of us had even heard them! Their vocals were simply perfect and I couldn't hear any mistakes in the instrumentation either. Gary really kept to himself and although he didn't initiate conversations, he was friendly enough when I encountered him on the train one Monday evening. I was going to the gym, and he was going to the recording studio. That was the last time I ever saw him. I hope he really made it big because he sure deserved it!

@patriciamillin1977 2 дня назад

I remember seeing the Beatles for the first time on British TV, they were new, they were exciting, they were catchy. When She Loves You came out, you could hear young and old on the streets either singing or whistling it.

@mattmallecoccio8378 19 дней назад

How, precisely is Ticket to Ride a happy song? It begins with "I think I'm gonna be sad. I think it's today, yeah. The girl that's driving me mad is going away."

@jameshumphrey2345 19 дней назад

Well … Sing along with it. Does it depress you? Didn’t think so. The Beatles did that a lot, really - upbeat tunes with lyrics that are nominally sad.

@mournblade1066 19 дней назад

Next you'll be telling us "Yellow Submarine" is a sad song! 😄

@ProfessorofRock 19 дней назад

The music is very happy.

@stephenbrown4211 19 дней назад

@@mournblade1066 it is, those poor Blue Meanies were so misunderstood😆

@ProfessorofRock 19 дней назад

Exactly. Thanks James!

@jamesmyers2087 19 дней назад

I dunno, Professor. Great analysis. But I alway thought the lyrics indicated this song was just actually describing a relationship the writer(s) was or imagined themselves being in. And that the relationship was pretty well established before the split up. “Living with me…” was just one big indication. I imagine the likelihood he’d be describing a German hooker would require some other lyrical insinuations. I think your analysis that she’s leaving and “ticket to ride” a just a metaphor for her departure is probably what it means. Lennon, as talented as he was, I also think probably wanted to quickly distance himself from that early “lighthearted collective identity” and basically clean cut good boys persona their producers were pushing. I’m reminded of the analysis of what “Smells Like Teen Spirit” was all supposed to “mean”. And according to Corbain, the title just referred to his currents gfs friend telling Corbain it’s what his deodorant smell like and the rest of the lyrics meant nothing. Which he supposedly meant that’s what most teen’s thought process was like. A mishmash of wild convicting notions and thought processes. Hadn’t had a bunch of to comment but I’m still watching them all. And your question about their actual jumping point? I’d say the Sullivan Show. But that was really just one point. They evolved like no other band I know. In music style, personal appearance, Eastern religion exploration and even getting in trouble with the law. But Sullivan probably. Watched the original airing with my family as a wee one. My sisters went bananas.

@CO-id8cy 19 дней назад

Entertaining and informative. I didn't realize they were the artists of some of the songs I was familiar with. An episode on the difference between albums from the continents has my interest.

@gregjohnson7270 18 дней назад

I agree totally with your comment about their rapid maturation in less than 10 years going from innocent love songs to more complex compositions like Strawberry Fields Forever and Lucy In The Sky...truly amazing!

@deespaeth8180 17 дней назад

I agree. Right around Help was when I think it was becoming apparent. By the time of Rubber Soul and Revolver it was more obvious. Then there's another shift with Sgt. Pepper and MMT.

@michaelrochester48 19 дней назад

Paperback writer is closer to heavy metal than ticket to ride. And the closest The Beatles ever came to heavy metal was Helter skelter and I want you, she’s so heavy on the Abbey Road album.

@ProfessorofRock 19 дней назад

I'm only quoting Lennon.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 18 дней назад

I have to agree.

@AshleyReynolds-vc6ly 19 дней назад

Ringo's drumming on Ticket To ride is kinda weird but perfect for the song. Ringo is an excellent and innovative drummer.

@ProfessorofRock 19 дней назад

I agree 100%

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 18 дней назад

Agree! Can’t imagine it any other way.

@lorenzor2555 17 дней назад

Actually Paul told precisely Ringo how to play drums in this track

@splenderella9 16 дней назад

@@lorenzor2555No he didn't!😜

@DaleRaby 11 дней назад

Years ago my family acquired and old tube radio from a relative. The entire oak case of the radio was covered with the names Ringo, John, Paul and George. Aunt Marcella had a teen-aged daughter.

@teazzer44 19 дней назад

I grew up in Blackfoot, Idaho and in 67 my aunt was a big Beatles fan I got to go see the Movie Help with her and Ringo became this 7 year old favorite person on earth

@CowGirlKat8691 19 дней назад

Another great story behind the music!! 🤠

@DC8091 19 дней назад

Oh, and displaying The Muppet Movie soundtrack above Mad Man Across The Water is BRILLIANT!! 🤘

@ProfessorofRock 19 дней назад

Ha ha! You get it!

@DC8091 19 дней назад

@@ProfessorofRockdamn right!! 🤘

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 18 дней назад

Love that movie!

@DC8091 18 дней назад

@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 one of the best ever 🤘

@waynepederick4412 18 дней назад

I would love a show on the different versions of albums. I am in Australia and until relatively recently I thought that all releases of albums were the same, worldwide. Being ‘down-under’ I have been relatively isolated and despite being in my mid 60’s I am still learning. I love your show, as a keen student of rock music, particularly the history of the different artists I find your shows fascinating.

@mremusic999 19 дней назад

Great song, and also a perfect example of Ringo's brilliance in coming up with creative beats. Most drummers play that beat totally straight instead of injecting some swing into it.

@ProfessorofRock 19 дней назад

I agree. Ringo is the best.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 18 дней назад

Ringo likes to spice it up.

@cybersean3000 19 дней назад

@ProfessorofRock 1.) Before coming to America, the Beatles sent Ringo on a scouting mission. The band wanted to determine how well they would be received. So, Ringo made his way to Jacksonville, IL to check things out. But why a small farm town in West Central IL? Well, it could be to find out what music average mid-Western kids liked, but there maybe another part of the story. Capitol Records had a pressing plant in Jacksonville, IL. It is more likely that Ringo came to visit the pressing plant rather than to hang out with a bunch of farm town kids . . . if this local legend has any truth to it. 2.) The scene where the band open the doors to their respective house, then revealing they are all connected, has a nod from a very similar scent in "Back To School." 3.) Many other bands found inspiration in Beatles music. Sugarloaf in their hit "Don't Call Us" not only use the same riff from 1965's "I Feel Fine," they admit in the lyrics "sound like John, Paul and George."

@frankieecanales8827 18 дней назад

Thought for sure that it actually was George who came to America solo to visit his sister Louise, not Ringo.

@splenderella9 16 дней назад

I sincerely doubt if this was true!😜

@splenderella9 16 дней назад

@@frankieecanales8827Yes - George DID have a married sister in the states!

@splenderella9 16 дней назад

This NEVER happened! Where do you people HEAR this crap anyway??

@supasoulproductions 18 дней назад

Never thought of Ticket to Ride as a 'happy sing along'.

@amynoland9162 12 дней назад

Just saw Ringo Starr at the Venetian in Las Vegas. Bucket list item that had been on my radar since before the pandemic. GREAT show, loved it!!! Sad I never got to see the Beatles live as their last concert was near where I lived in San Francisco, but I was only about eight years old. We have seen Paul McCartney in the past and that was a great show also. ❤

@beverleypeacock 8 дней назад

A memory...I was about 11 or 12 when "Ticket to Ride'' came out in England, where I grew up. I was mesmorized with each new Beatles song that came out and got to know every sound in them...I sometimes would sleep in my sister's bed when she was away..Her clock had the prefect tick tock that lined up with "Ticket to Ride" . I rememeber summer bed time, still light out and I would lie there in silence listening to her clock ticking, going over and over the song in my mind..It was fun.

@fourthtunz 19 дней назад

Thank you, Adam. You cannot do enough. Beatle shows for me.!

@ProfessorofRock 19 дней назад

More to come!

@rogerdeahl9629 19 дней назад

❤🎉 The Fab Four! Never made the connection between this song and "heavy metal". Hmmm. I once knew a cook who always said he had a "Ticket to Fry". 😅 Thanks Professor! Great start to the week.

@ProfessorofRock 19 дней назад

Thanks Roger!

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 18 дней назад

Well take any garage rock song and compare it to heavy metal.

@user-ft3si7nd5b 18 дней назад

I love your work Adam and thank you for sharing it with us. The one thing I don't like about watching your videos is: there are WAY TOO MANY blinking RU-vid commercials, it gets very annoying.

@mikelieberman6924 14 дней назад

I was at Shea stadium. I took my little sister with me. :-) I first heard the Beatles on the 'Murray the K' show on radio in NY (WABC?). I guess I liked it, but was not over the moon by it. My sister fell in love with Paul. She bought all their early albums. I remember going to a small (and thankfully air conditioned) movie house in Carmel, NY, the summer that Hard Day's Night came out. It was great fun. But it was maybe starting with Rubber Soul and Revolver I started developing a real respect for them as a band. They had become real musicians. In high school, my music instructor spend a week with a few of us dissecting the intricate complexity of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. So, were they big? Hell yes. They were massive. They became the subtext of a decade.

@mikecon7634 19 дней назад

I was 10 when I watched the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show. In my mind the Stones are the greatest r&r band. But if I had to choose between Stones and Beatles for My fave band, I think it's the Beatles.

@vimassdaproductions4321 19 дней назад

I thought Day Tripper was the one about the prostitute... And the opening guitar is much more like metal than Ticket to Ride

@ProfessorofRock 19 дней назад

Maybe both are.

@LazyIRanch 19 дней назад

I thought "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" was about a prostitute. Seems like I've read that in more than one article.

@stephenbrown4211 19 дней назад

Probably why Whitesnake did a cover on their debut album, Trouble

@danielolson5378 19 дней назад

Day Tripper i've read is about taking a trip when smoking pot or possibly doing LSD.

@halwiseman9420 19 дней назад

@@LazyIRanch It was reported by the press that the song was about a lesbian; Paul satirically sturck by saying "We were just trying to write songs about prostitutes and lesbians, that's all"

@stephenhanft1226 19 дней назад

"Ticket To Ride" is one of my many favorite Beatles songs from their early 1964-1965 era. It was from the Help album and right before they really started to expand their experimentation and creativity with Rubber Soul.

@blazerhawkdarren68 19 дней назад

You mentioned Beach Boys, I gave a review of their documentary. Beatles were very influential in all aspects of music. Their concert at Shea stadium, to me, was what took their international popularity to a different level.