"Ticket to Ride"
US picture sleeve
Single by the Beatles
from the album Help!
B-side	"Yes It Is"
Released	9 April 1965 (1965-04-09)
Recorded	15 February 1965
Studio	EMI, London
Genre	Power pop[1] jangle pop[2] folk rock[3]
Length	3:10
Label	Parlophone (UK), Capitol (US)
Songwriter(s)	Lennon–McCartney
Producer(s)	George Martin
The Beatles UK singles chronology
"I Feel Fine" (1964) "Ticket to Ride" (1965) "Help!" (1965)
The Beatles US singles chronology
"Eight Days a Week" (1965) "Ticket to Ride" (1965) "Help!" (1965)
Promotional film
"Ticket to Ride" on YouTube

"Ticket to Ride" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, written primarily by John Lennon and credited to Lennon–McCartney. Issued as a single in April 1965, it became the Beatles' seventh consecutive number 1 hit in the United Kingdom and their third consecutive number 1 hit (and eighth in total) in the United States, and similarly topped national charts in Canada, Australia and Ireland. The song was included on their 1965 album Help! Recorded at EMI Studios in London in February that year, the track 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".^[4]

"Ticket to Ride" appears in a sequence in the Beatles' second feature film, Help!, directed by Richard Lester. Live performances by the band were included in the Beatles at Shea Stadium concert film, on the live album documenting their concerts at the Hollywood Bowl, and on the 1996 Anthology 2 box set. In 1969, "Ticket to Ride" was covered by The Carpenters, whose version peaked at number 54 on the Billboard Hot 100.