The Beatles: All US Number Ones Ranked Worst To Best
8. Ticket to Ride
8th Number One, 1965 - Written by John Lennon
It's hard to reach the top and not let it get to your head, and the members of The Beatles tended to be braggadocios at times. The year after this song came out, for example, John was quoted saying that The Beatles were more popular than Jesus, which would put a crimp in their career, an end to their touring days, and a nail in John's coffin - his assassin gave that quote as one of the inciting motives for killing him.
Where Ticket to Ride is concerned, John often boasted about it being the first heavy metal song ever recorded. Which, heavy though it might seem when compared to their previous output, is a far cry from the truth. Still an amazing song, though, even if the Fab Four look bored out of their minds in the above clip.
Fun Fact: Much like Can't Buy Me Love, this song has also been rumoured to be about a prostitute... only it might actually be, with a 'ticket to ride' signifying a clean bill of health, which some prostitutes carried around in the 1960s.