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So coming up, today’s featured song Ticket to Ride is pretty loaded. And by their own admission, so were the Beatles when they wrote it. There are some conflicting accounts of what inspired this one… Paul McCartney cited just an average-ordinary train ride as its source. While John Lennon credited German prostitutes. That’s right. Bet you weren’t expecting that one. Lennon would also call Ticket to Ride one of the founding tracks of the heavy metal genre. But are any of these claims true? Whether they are or not, one thing is for certain… Ticket to Ride marks a critical turning point for The Beatles in an artistic direction that would change rock and roll forever. Breaking the mold of the two-minute pop song, Ticket to Ride opened up a new world of possibilities. It’s a story you’re not going to want to miss… NEXT on the Professor of Rock.

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So if you haven’t guessed, today we’re returning with another story about a band that has thousands and a band that also still holds the record of most #1 hit ever with 20. It’s The Beatles. Today we cover one of those massive #1 hits and the story will shock you. The song is Ticket to Ride from their fifth UK album Help!. Before 1964, America was something of a barren ground for British pop, with only the occasional record making a mark. However, The Beatles like a bolt of lightning quickly changed that on February 9th, 1964… spearheading the British Invasion. Two words: Ed Sullivan.

In the weeks leading up to the show (which would be their first on American soil), multiple Beatles records had already reached the top of the US charts. And the anticipation for the Beatles touchdown in the US was monumental. When the Fab Four arrived at Kennedy Airport in New York on February 7th, they were met by three thousand screaming fans. But that was only a taste of things to come. Two days alter, 73 million people gathered in front of their televisions and tuned into The Ed Sullivan Show. That staggering number meant that 45.3% of all homes with televisions were watching the show that night. Just think about that for a moment… and of course it’s probably the most pivotal moment in music history.

That night the Beatles performed All My Loving, Till There was You, She Loves You, I Saw Her Standing There, and I Want To Hold Your Hand. And the youth across America sat transfixed over what their eyes and ears were witnessing. The effects of the Beatles performance on the Ed Sullivan Show would ripple across generations, inspiring legions of fans to pick up a guitar and start their own band. After Ed Sullivan, The Beatles reached a level of popularity that eclipsed their pre-eminence in Britain. By April, they owned the top 5 spots on the Hot 100 with Can’t Buy Me Love, Twist and Shout, She Loves You, I Want to Hold Your Hand...