The Beatles

Released: March 18, 1996

Songwriter: John Lennon Lennon-McCartney

Producer: George Martin

[Verse 1]
I think I'm going to be sad, I think it's today, yeah
The girl that's driving me mad is going away

[Chorus]
She's got a ticket to ride
She's got a ticket to ride
She's got a ticket to ride but she don't care

[Verse 2]
She said that living with me is bringing her down, yeah
She would never be free when I was around

[Chorus]
She's got a ticket to ride
She's got a ticket to ride
She's got a ticket to ride but she don't care

[Bridge]
I don't know why she's riding so high
She ought to think twice, she ought to do right by me
Before she gets to saying goodbye
She ought to think twice, she ought to do right by me

[Verse 3]
I think I'm going to be sad, I think it's today, yeah
The girl that's driving me mad is going away, yeah

[Chorus]
Oh, she's got a ticket to ride
She's got a ticket to ride
She's got a ticket to ride but she don't care

[Bridge]
I don't know why she's riding so high
She ought to think twice, she ought to do right by me
Before she gets to saying goodbye
She ought to think twice, she ought to do right by me

[Verse 4]
She said that living with me is bringing her down, yeah
She would never be free when I was around

[Chorus]
Oh, she's got a ticket to ride
She's got a ticket to ride
She's got a ticket to ride but she don't care

[Outro]
My baby don't care
My baby don't care
My baby don't care
My baby don't care

The Beatles are arguably the most famous, critically-acclaimed, and successful rock band of all time—certainly the preeminent group of the 20th century. They started out as four teenagers playing grimy basement clubs in Liverpool and Hamburg, but they progressed to become world-beating rock stars who are still influential to this day.

John Lennon first formed a skiffle group called The Quarrymen in March 1957. A fifteen-year-old Paul McCartney joined shortly thereafter, eventually inviting his friend George Harrison to audition for the band. After finally impressing John with his guitar skills, George was asked to join—but this juncture would be short-lived as John’s departure to college signaled the other quarrymen to go their separate ways.

By 1960, Lennon, McCartney, and Harrison had re-branded from ‘Johnny & the Moondogs’ to ‘The Silver Beetles’ at the behest of their new bass player, Stuart Sutcliffe. The name would eventually evolve into ‘The Silver Beatles’ by July of that year, before settling on ‘The Beatles’ come August—just in time for their trip to Hamburg with new drummer, Pete Best. Though club residencies in Germany would prove fundamental to the group’s progress as a whole, the tour turned out to be a blessing and a curse, following the deportation of a then-seventeen-year-old George Harrison, and the eventual tragic death of Stuart Sutcliffe.

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