Musical Flashback: Ticket to Ride by The Beatles (1965)

Ticket to Ride was a song by the British group The Beatles, from their album Help! which was released in 1965. 

The song, written mainly by John Lennon, was a hit, like many other songs by The Beatles. The song, after its release, remained in the Hot 100 for a week in the United States and was at the top of the UK Singles Chart for three weeks in the United Kingdom. The song was also named as one of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" by Rolling Stone, where it ranked 384th. 

The meaning of the song is actually quite unclear--conflicting interpretations by the members of The Beatles themselves made it confusing. While Paul McCartney said the song was about a train ticket, John Lennon had indicated that it was about health cards carried around by prostitutes from Hamburg, Germany in the 1960s, indicating that they were clean and did not have any form of sexually transmitted disease ("ride" or "riding" was a slang term for the sexual act).