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Thus, the Beatles broke a combined six-week run at the top for MancunianВ groups. When the song hit number 1 in the US, the Beatles became the fourth consecutive English group to hold down the top spot, after Freddie and the Dreamers, Wayne FontanaВ and the Mindbenders, and Herman's Hermits. The song was the third of six number one singles in a row on the American charts, a record at the time, along with ' I Feel Fine', ' Eight Days a Week', ' Help!', ' Yesterday', and ' We Can Work It Out'. The song was also included on the Help!В album released on 6 August in the UK and on 13 August in the US.

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This was the original title of the Beatles' second movie the title changed to Help!В after the single was initially released. The American single's label declared that the song was from the United ArtistsВ release Eight Arms to Hold You. 'Ticket to Ride' was released as a singleВ on 9 April 1965 in the United Kingdom and 19 April in the United States with ' Yes It Is' as its B-side, В topping the Hot 100В for a week in the US and the UK Singles ChartВ for three weeks in the UK. The Beatles played in Hamburg early in their musical career, and 'ride/riding' was slang for having sex. McCartney said it was 'a British RailwaysВ ticket to the town of RydeВ on the Isle of Wight', В and Lennon said it described cards indicating a clean bill of health carried by HamburgВ prostitutes in the 1960s. While the song lyrics describe a girl 'riding out of the life of the narrator', В the inspiration of the title phrase is unclear. Lennon said this double-time section (with the lyric 'My baby don't care') was one of his 'favourite bits' in the song.

The song features a coda with a different tempo that extends the song's length past three minutes.

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we sat down together and worked on that for a full three-hour songwriting session.' В This song was also the first song by the band in which McCartney was featured on lead guitar.

McCartney said that was an incomplete description, and that 'we sat down and wrote it together.

Lennon said that McCartney's contribution was limited to 'the way RingoВ played the drums'. The song was written primarily by John LennonВ (credited to LennonвЂ“McCartney), with Paul McCartney's contributions in dispute.