Still, that’s exactly what John Lennon labeled the group’s 1965 single “Ticket to Ride.”
Like the majority of Beatles compositions, the track was a Lennon-McCartney creation. Paul McCartney reportedly came up with the tune’s distinctive drum parts, as well as his own high harmony vocals.
“‘Ticket To Ride' was slightly a new sound at the time. It was pretty heavy for then, if you go and look in the charts for what other music people were making,” Lennon later argued. “It's a heavy record and the drums are heavy, too. That's why I like it.”
Indeed, the drum part in particular seemed to be Lennon’s favorite ingredient on “Ticket to Ride.” During a 1980 interview with