Australian singles chart:
Ticket to Ride entered the Kent chart on 24 April 1965 and peaked at #1. It was #10 on the Top 100 of 1965.
Album:
The song is on the Help! soundtrack album which entered the Kent album charts on 18 September 1965. It went straight to #1 in its first week and sat there for 9 weeks. The album returned to #1 twice more in 1966.
Songwriter:
John Lennon, credited to Lennon–McCartney
Producer:
George Martin
Record label of Australian release:
Parlophone
Wikipedia:
Ticket to Ride became the Beatles’ seventh consecutive #1 hit in the United Kingdom and their third consecutive #1 hit (and eighth in total) in the United States, and similarly topped national charts in Canada, Australia and Ireland. The song marked a progression in the Beatles’ work through the incorporation of drone and harder-sounding instrumentation relative to their previous releases. Among music critics, Ian MacDonald describes the song as “psychologically deeper than anything the Beatles had recorded before” and “extraordinary for its time”.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ticket_to_Ride_(song)
Personnel:
According to Ian MacDonald, the line-up was as follows:
John Lennon – double-tracked lead vocal, rhythm guitar
Paul McCartney – harmony vocal, bass guitar, lead guitar
George Harrison – lead guitar (12-string), rhythm guitar
Ringo Starr – drums, tambourine, handclaps
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