But what makes “Ticket To Ride” sing is its lightness - the way it’s always dancing away from you. That music was heavy because it dragged you down into its sodden, wrathful headspace. The real early heavy metal bands - including Vanilla Fudge, who released their cover of “Ticket To Ride” two years after the Beatles’ original came out - turned blues progressions into something leaden and overwhelming. And Lennon once called “Ticket To Ride” “one of the earliest heavy metal records made.” He was wrong, and he was wrong for interesting reasons. He described both songs as "psychologically deeper than The Beatles had ever recorded before" and declared that they marked a huge step forward in the Beatles development as songwriters.John Lennon wrote most of “Ticket To Ride,” though Paul McCartney has taken credit for a decent chunk of it. The original mono single mix appears on the Mono Masters CD as part of The Beatles in Mono box set.Īuthor Ian MacDonald praised "Yes It Is" along with its accompanying a-side " Ticket to Ride". (using the "duophonic" stereo remix from the original mono track, with additional echo and reverb added), and on compilation albums, including Love Songs, the British version of the Rarities album Only the Beatles, an unauthorized British promotional cassette for Heineken Beer in 1986 (on which it made its first true stereo appearance) Past Masters, Volume One and on Anthology 2 in an alternate version that combines the second and fourteenth takes. The song was included on Beatles VI in the U.S. It reached number 46 in the Billboard Hot 100. American pressings of the single erroneously show "Yes It Is" as being from the film Eight Arms to Hold You (the original title for the film, Help!), in which it did not appear. "Yes It Is" was released as the B-side of the "Ticket to Ride" single in both the U.S. After completing the rhythm track, Lennon, McCartney and Harrison recorded their vocal harmonies in three hours, singing live together using the suggestion of George Martin that they sing their three-part harmony in the style of a barber shop quartet. "Yes It Is" was recorded on 16 February 1965, the same day that they completed Harrison's " I Need You". Over the course of a five-hour recording session, the Beatles attempted 14 takes of the basic track before perfecting it. ![]() Yes it is, it's true") involves a I (E chord) – III (G# chord) – IV (A chord) – I (E chord) progression in which the major III (G#) chord appears for the first time in the song to propel the Plagal drop from IV (A) to the tonic I (E) chord. The melodic pitches of this first two bar phrase are repeated (with initial repetition of the G# melody note) on "remember what I said tonight," except that the B melody note on the second "to night" is now backed by a ♭VII (D) chord that shapes the B melody note into a more "luscious" 6th. The song is in the 12/8 time signature, in the key of E and begins (on "If you wear red tonight .") with a I–IV–ii7–V7 chord progression (E–A–F#m7–B7) in which the word "to night" (B melody note) appears as a "delicately haunting" 4th above the F#m7, creating a suspension. Paul McCartney on the other hand described it as "a very fine song of John's" that he and Lennon had finished writing together. In his 1980 interview with Playboy, John Lennon described "Yes It Is" as an attempt to rewrite " This Boy" (the style of the song) that "didn't quite work". Ian MacDonald describes the song as having "rich and unusual harmonic motion." Composition ![]() ![]() It features some of the Beatles' most complex and dissonant three-part vocal harmonies and showcases George Harrison's early use of volume pedal guitar. Written by John Lennon (credited to Lennon–McCartney), it was first released in 1965 as the B-side to " Ticket to Ride". " Yes It Is" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles.
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