"Yesterday (EP) Yesterday is an EP by the Beatles released on 4 March 1966 by Parlophone in the UK (catalogue number GEP 8948). It was also released in Portugal, Spain and Brazil (with another cover photo). All four of the tracks also appeared on the ""Help!"" album. In the United States, however, none of the tracks appeared on the American ""Help!"" soundtrack. Instead, ""You Like Me Too Much"" appears on ""Beatles VI"", ""It's Only Love"" appears on the US version of ""Rubber Soul,"" and ""Yesterday,"" and ""Act Naturally"" appear on """"Yesterday and Today"""". ""Yesterday"" and ""Act Naturally"" were also released"
"was ""the sound of a four-piece group hurtling way beyond the beat-pop being churned out by their peers"". In 2014, ""USA Today"" named it the best Beatles song, saying: ""No single better reflects the ambition, tension and pure pop genius that made the Beatles unique … ""Ticket to Ride"" is perfection all the way through."" In 2018, the music staff of ""Time Out London"" ranked it at number 11 on their list of the best Beatles songs. The Beatles played ""Ticket to Ride"" throughout their June–July 1965 European tour. A live performance from the 1 August 1965 broadcast of ""Blackpool"
"at number 1 on the national listings compiled by ""Melody Maker"", where it also stayed for three weeks, and similarly topped Ireland's singles chart in its first week of release there. In America, the song was number 1 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart for one week. According to ""Billboard""s Hits of the World listings for 15 May 1965, ""Ticket to Ride"" was also the top-selling single in Australia. The US single's face label stated that the A-side was from the forthcoming United Artists release ""Eight Arms to Hold You"", which was the original title of the Beatles' second film,"
"""Ticket to Ride"" on 15 February 1965 at EMI's Abbey Road Studios in London. It was the band's first recording session since completing the ""Beatles for Sale"" album on 26 October 1964, after which they had toured the UK and played a season of Christmas shows in London through to mid January. The session inaugurated what author Mark Lewisohn describes as ""a more serious application in the recording studio"" by the group, which included taping rehearsals of each song they worked on and concentrating on backing or rhythm tracks, after which they would overdub more detailed instrumental parts. Everett views"
"as a single in the United States in September 1965. The Beatles' 11th EP was released in mono only, and the cover photograph was taken by Robert Whitaker. Each Beatle took lead vocal on a song – McCartney on ""Yesterday"", Starr on ""Act Naturally"", Harrison on ""You Like Me Too Much"" and Lennon on ""It's Only Love"". ""Yesterday"" entered the UK EP chart on 12 March 1966, and from 26 March spent six weeks at number one. In all it remained on the hit parade for 13 weeks. with: Yesterday (EP) Yesterday is an EP by the Beatles released on"
"the 1 February 1986 issue of ""NME"" magazine. Johnny Black paired this version with the Carpenters' hit recording as examples of how the Lennon–McCartney song continues to endure. Echo & the Bunnymen recorded ""Ticket to Ride"" in 2001, creating a version that Vulture.com later included among its ten best Beatles covers. That same year, Beatallica parodied the song on their ""A Garage Dayz Nite"" track ""Everybody's Got a Ticket to Ride Except for Me and My Lightning"". Kids Incorporated covered ""Ticket to Ride"" in 1993 in the Season 9 episode ""Face Your Fears"". According to Ian MacDonald, the line-up on"
"Night Out"" was included on the ""Anthology 2"" compilation and shown during ""The Beatles Anthology"" documentary. On 14 August, the group recorded a live performance of the song for ""The Ed Sullivan Show"", broadcast the following month. ""Ticket to Ride"" was also included in the set list for the Beatles' 1965 US tour and their UK tour at the end of the year. The 15 August performance at Shea Stadium appears in the 1966 documentary ""The Beatles at Shea Stadium"", although the audio for the song was re-recorded in London prior to release. The group's 29 August performance at the"
"tour of France in 1964; however, the song was not released until the summer of 1965. During the intervening time, the Beatles released two albums, ""A Hard Day's Night"" and ""Beatles for Sale"", each of which could have included ""Yesterday"". Although McCartney has never elaborated on his claims, a delay may have been due to a disagreement between McCartney and George Martin regarding the song's arrangement, or the opinion of the other Beatles who felt it did not suit their image. Lennon later indicated that the song had been around for a while before: McCartney said the breakthrough with the"
"""Ticket to Ride"". The first Carpenters' retrospective, """", issued in 1973, featured an amended version of ""Ticket to Ride"" with a new lead vocal by Karen Carpenter. Other amendments were a new drum track by Karen to replace her drumming on the original track, and the addition of guitar work by Carpenters regular sideman Tony Peluso (who had not been attached to the group in 1969). The song was covered by former Motown artist Mary Wells, a favourite of the Beatles, who had invited her to open their concerts during a 1964 UK tour. Wells' recording appeared on her 1965"
"Ticket to Ride (album) Ticket to Ride is the first studio album by American music duo Carpenters. At the time of its initial release in 1969, it was issued under the title Offering, with a completely different cover photo. It was a commercial failure and produced only one minor hit single, a ballad version of the Lennon-McCartney song ""Ticket to Ride"". After the Carpenters' subsequent breakthrough, however, the album was reissued internationally under the name ""Ticket to Ride"" and sold moderately. The CD in the ""Remastered Classics"" series went out of print in March 2007. However, in Japan, the ""Pack"
"drum kit and the other band members sitting in director's chairs. Part of the clip appeared in the 1995 documentary ""The Beatles Anthology"". In 2015, it was included in full on the Beatles' video compilation ""1"". In his contemporary review of the single, Derek Johnson of the ""NME"" admired the ""depth of sound"" and ""tremendous drive"" of the recording. Music critics Richie Unterberger of AllMusic and Ian MacDonald both feel that ""Ticket to Ride"" is an important milestone in the evolution of the musical style of the Beatles. Unterberger said, ""the rhythm parts on 'Ticket to Ride' were harder and"
"The two volumes were also released as a double set. The Beatles performed for 52 BBC Radio programmes, beginning with an appearance on the series ""Teenager's Turn—Here We Go"", recorded on 7 March 1962, and ending with the special ""The Beatles Invite You to Take a Ticket to Ride"", recorded on 26 May 1965. Forty-seven of their BBC appearances occurred in 1963 and 1964, including 10 on ""Saturday Club"" and 15 on their own weekly series ""Pop Go the Beatles"", which began in June 1963. As The Beatles had not accumulated many original songs by this time, the majority of"
"later used in the ""Doctor Who"" episode ""The Executioners"", which aired on BBC1 on 22 May. The episode was part of the show's story ""The Chase"" and sees the Doctor using a time–space machine in the future to observe historical figures such as William Shakespeare, Abraham Lincoln and the Beatles. In addition to their television promotion, the group performed the song during their last session for BBC Radio, on 26 May, which was broadcast as ""The Beatles (Invite You to Take a Ticket to Ride)"". ""Ticket to Ride"" topped Britain's official singles chart for three weeks. It went straight in"
"group between 1963 and 1966. On 8 March 1976, ""Yesterday"" was released by Parlophone as a single in the UK, featuring ""I Should Have Known Better"" on the B-side. The single peaked at number 8 on the UK Singles Chart. The release came about due to the expiration of the Beatles' contract with EMI, which allowed the company to repackage the Beatles' recordings as they wished. EMI reissued all 22 of the Beatles' UK singles, plus ""Yesterday"", on the same day, leading to six of them placing on the UK chart. In 2006, a version of the song was included"
"the Kinks, the Yardbirds and the Beatles themselves (with ""Ticket to Ride"") had incorporated droning guitars to mimic the qualities of the sitar, ""Rubber Soul""s ""Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)"" is generally credited as sparking a musical craze for the sound of the instrument in the mid-1960s – a trend that would later be associated with the growth of raga rock, Indian rock, and the essence of psychedelic rock. ""Revolver"" ensured that psychedelic pop emerged from its underground roots and into the mainstream. The album included Lennon's evocation of an LSD trip, ""Tomorrow Never Knows"", and presented the Beatles"
"Harrison also said that the ""staggered"" motion of the riff then inspired the pattern that Starr decided to play. In addition to Lennon's lead vocal and McCartney's harmony, the overdubs included further electric guitar parts by Lennon and Harrison (on Rickenbacker 325 and Fender Stratocaster, respectively), over the verses, and by McCartney (on Epiphone Casino), who supplied the fills that close the bridges and the solo over the coda. In March 1965, the Beatles and their manager, Brian Epstein, selected ""Ticket to Ride"" and ""Yes It Is"" to be the A- and B-sides, respectively, of the group's first single release"
"filmed in the shadow of Stonehenge. McCartney played the song on 15 July 2011 at Yankee Stadium, stating from the stage that it was the first time he had performed the song in concert. The only time the Beatles performed it outside of EMI Studios was for their final BBC radio session (""The Beatles Invite You to Take a Ticket To Ride""), on 26 May 1965. This performance was broadcast on the BBC Light Programme on 7 June that year. The Night Before (song) ""The Night Before"" is a song by the Beatles from their 1965 film Help and accompanying"
"on The Kinks, the Stones and The Who at their own, more rocky game"". ""Ticket to Ride"" has been included in many critics' best-song lists, including top 500 ""all-time"" lists compiled by ""Rolling Stone"" in 2010 (at number 394) and the ""NME"" in 2014 (number 311). Dave Marsh ranked it 29th on his 1989 list ""The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made"". The track appeared at number 17 on ""Rolling Stone""s list of the ""100 Greatest Beatles Songs"" and at number 23 on a similar list compiled by ""Mojo"". In his commentary for ""Mojo"", John Harris said that ""Ticket to Ride"""
"McCartney's ""Yesterday"", arranged for guitar and string quartet and recorded without the other group members. John Lennon's ""You've Got to Hide Your Love Away"" indicates the influence of Bob Dylan and includes flutes. McCartney's ""I've Just Seen a Face"" had a country flavour. ""Ticket to Ride"", also released as a single, was felt by Lennon to be ""heavy"" in its sound compared to the group's previous output and daring in its reference to a boy and girl living together. McCartney called the arrangement ""quite radical"". George Harrison contributed ""I Need You"" and ""You Like Me Too Much"", his first compositions"
"to the Beatles' 1965 classic song ""Yesterday"". References to The Beatles, of whom Jia was an avid fan, are also made throughout the film. Besides dressing up like John Lennon, Jia also fantasized himself as Lennon's son and recited the Chinese translation of the lyrics to ""Let It Be"" religiously. However, Michael Jackson, who owned the rights to most Beatles songs, declined to give permission for the song or its title to be used in the film. Instead, the film uses songs by Chinese rockers such as Cui Jian, Tang Dynasty and Dou Wei. Jia Hongsheng, graduated from the Central"
"in concert in 2009. Buffalo Springfield also uses the riff on the track ""Baby Don't Scold Me"" from the original mono pressing of their debut self titled album. According to Ian MacDonald: Weekly charts Day Tripper ""Day Tripper"" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles that was released as a double A-side single with ""We Can Work It Out"" in December 1965. Written primarily by John Lennon, it was credited to the Lennon–McCartney partnership. Both songs were recorded during the sessions for the band's ""Rubber Soul"" album. The single topped charts in Britain, Ireland, the Netherlands and"
"March 1962, and ending with the special ""The Beatles Invite You to Take a Ticket to Ride"", recorded on 26 May 1965; in total, 275 performances of 88 different songs were broadcast. Early bootlegs of some of the performances were based on low-quality home recordings of the broadcasts from the radio. It was not the BBC's practice to archive either the session tapes or the shows' master tapes, but many good quality distribution copies were found in various BBC departments during research for BBC radio specials produced in the 1980s. Increasingly comprehensive collections of the BBC performances were bootlegged in"
"""first 'Yesterday.'"" Recorded by the Beatles over three days, in Abbey Road Studio Two, the sessions were produced by George Martin and engineered by Norman Smith. The second engineer was Richard Langham. Work began at 2:30pm on Tuesday 25 February 1964 for the first day of the sessions for the ""Hard Day's Night"" soundtrack and the accompanying album. Two takes were recorded. Take 1 was incomplete, but Take 2 was complete. However, the Beatles decided a lighter touch was required. Take 2 was eventually released on ""Anthology 1"" in 1995. This version was missing the middle-eight. Instrumentation on this session"
"Ticket to Ride (book) Ticket to Ride: Inside the Beatles' 1964 Tour that Changed the World is a 2003 memoir by Larry Kane. It accounts his experience as the only American reporter to travel with The Beatles' entourage in their 1964 and 1965 tours of The United States and Canada, at the height of Beatlemania. At the time the offer was given to him, Larry Kane was not himself a Beatles fan, so he wrote from the perspective of a journalist rather than a fan. Kane was recognized by the band to be reliable, likable and professional, and he gained"
"Day Tripper ""Day Tripper"" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles that was released as a double A-side single with ""We Can Work It Out"" in December 1965. Written primarily by John Lennon, it was credited to the Lennon–McCartney partnership. Both songs were recorded during the sessions for the band's ""Rubber Soul"" album. The single topped charts in Britain, Ireland, the Netherlands and Norway. In the United States, ""Day Tripper"" peaked at number 5 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart while ""We Can Work It Out"" held the top position. The track is a rock song based"
"Today"", released on 20 June 1966, were the most-recently released songs performed. ""If I Needed Someone"" was the most recent US released song (appearing on ""Yesterday and Today"" in June 1966) and ""Paperback Writer"" was the most recent US released single (released in May 1966) performed. The three remaining tracks performed from ""Yesterday and Today"" were previously released in 1965 and early 1966 as singles. The Beatles' 1966 US tour The Beatles staged their third concert tour of America in August 1966, and it was the last commercial tour they undertook. Lasting a total of 19 performances, with 17 shows"
"except spoken word tracks and where noted. Anthology 1 Anthology 1 is a compilation album by the Beatles, released on 20 November 1995 by Apple Records as part of ""The Beatles Anthology"" series. It features rarities, outtakes and live performances from the period 1958–1964, including songs with original bass player Stuart Sutcliffe and drummer Pete Best. It is the first in a trilogy of albums with ""Anthology 2"" and ""Anthology 3"", all of which tie in with the televised special ""The Beatles Anthology"". It contains ""Free as a Bird"", billed as the first new Beatles song in 25 years. The"
"shops. The song went to number 1 in May 1965 and, according to some UK Charts, it knocked The Beatles's ""Ticket to Ride"" off the number one spot. A duet with Hatch, ""The Two of Us"", later achieved success on the Australian chart. Where Are You Now (My Love) ""Where Are You Now (My Love)"" is a 1965 song written by Tony Hatch and Jackie Trent, and recorded in December 1964 by Trent. The single gave Trent her only No. 1 hit when it reached the top of the UK Singles Chart for one week in May 1965. The song"
"of the year. The record was issued by EMI's Parlophone label on 9 April 1965 in the United Kingdom, and by Capitol Records on 19 April in the United States. A contemporary news report stated that the Beatles were due to promote the single on television shows such as ""Top of the Pops"" and ""Thank Your Lucky Stars"", and that the band were forming an independent production company with their producer, George Martin, which would earn them a more favourable financial return on their recordings. A portion of the group's ""Top of the Pops"" performance of ""Ticket to Ride"" was"
"Anthology 1 Anthology 1 is a compilation album by the Beatles, released on 20 November 1995 by Apple Records as part of ""The Beatles Anthology"" series. It features rarities, outtakes and live performances from the period 1958–1964, including songs with original bass player Stuart Sutcliffe and drummer Pete Best. It is the first in a trilogy of albums with ""Anthology 2"" and ""Anthology 3"", all of which tie in with the televised special ""The Beatles Anthology"". It contains ""Free as a Bird"", billed as the first new Beatles song in 25 years. The album topped the ""Billboard"" 200 album chart"
"This had been done previously for the Rolling Stones' 1964 debut album, the Beatles' albums ""Rubber Soul"" in 1965 and ""Revolver"" in 1966, and Traffic's self-titled 1968 debut album. In America, Atco Records made a cover based on elements from a flyer for the band's Hyde Park concert of 7 June 1969 in London. The album was released on vinyl in 1969 on Polydor Records in the UK and Europe, and on Atco Records in the US. Polydor released a compact disc in 1986, adding two previously unreleased tracks, ""Exchange and Mart"" and ""Spending All My Days"", recorded by Ric"
"The set comprised eleven songs and lasted just over 30 minutes. Aside from the introduction of ""Paperback Writer"" (in place of ""We Can Work It Out""), it was relatively unchanged from the 1965 UK tour. ""Rock and Roll Music"" became the opening song, while Ringo Starr's moment as the featured singer, ""Act Naturally"", was replaced by ""I Wanna Be Your Man"". The Beatles played ""Yesterday"" – which had previously been a Paul McCartney solo performance, on acoustic guitar – with electric group backing for the first time. The Beatles' entourage consisted of Epstein, press officer Tony Barrow, road managers Neil"
"The Beatles' 1965 UK tour The Beatles' 1965 tour of the United Kingdom was a concert tour that took place between 3 and 12 December 1965, comprising 18 shows at nine venues across England, Scotland and Wales. It coincided with the release of the Beatles' studio album ""Rubber Soul"" and their double A-side single ""Day Tripper"" / ""We Can Work It Out"", and was the final UK tour undertaken by the band. Weary of Beatlemania, the group conceded to do the tour but refused to also perform a season of Christmas concerts as they had done over the 1963–64 and"