TICKET TO RIDE - BEATLES - 1965

TICKET TO RIDE – The Beatles

#1 May 22nd, 1965

 

NEWS

• Lyndon Johnson began his first full term as President and proclaims his “Great Society”.

• The Watts riots raged for 5 days and killed 30 people.

• The first commercial communications satellite is launched.

• Martin Luther King, Jr. leads 3,200 civil rights activists in the third march from Selma, Alabama to the capitol in Montgomery. 

• U.S. spacecraft Mariner 4 flies by Mars, becoming the first spacecraft to return images from the Red Planet.

 

FADS and ENTERTAINMENT

• Movies: “Dr. Zhivago” & “Sound of Music” 

• T.V,: “Green Acres” & “Batman” and The Tom & Jerry cartoon series debute.

• This was the first year the U.S. quit using silver in its coins.

• Muhammad Ali knocks out Sonny Liston in the first round of their championship rematch with the "Phantom Punch."

 

DEAD

• Malcolm X is assassinated. (February 21)

• Winston Churchill

• Nat King Cole

• T.S. Elliot

 

AZ HISTORY

• Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum:  In April 1965, the name was officially changed to honor Arizona's war veterans.

• Lorna Lockwood is elected chief justice of the Arizona Supreme Court. She is the first woman in the United States to head a state supreme court.

 

#1@1

• From the album, Help!

• This was also the first song by the band in which McCartney was featured on lead guitar.

• The inspiration of the title phrase is unclear,:  McCartney said it was "a British Railways ticket to the town of Ryde on the Isle of Wight". Lennon said it described cards indicating a clean bill of health carried by Hamburg prostitutes in the 1960s.

• The Beatles played in Hamburg early in their musical career, and "ride/riding" was slang for having sex.

• John Lennon once said it was one of the earliest heavy metal records made. 

• The Beatles with “Ticket To Ride” your #1 @ 1 from May 1965.