Sold Date: March 8, 2016
Start Date: March 1, 2016
Final Price: £105.01 (GBP)
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I think I'm gonna be sad,
I think it's today, yeah.
The girl that's driving me mad,
Is going away.

She's got a ticket to ride,
She's got a ticket to ride,
She's got a ticket to ride,
But she don't care.

She said that living with me
Is bringing her down, yeah.
  For she would never be free,
When I was around.

She's got a ticket to ride,
She's got a ticket to ride,
She's got a ticket to ride,
But she don't care.

I don't know why she's riding so high,
She ought to think twice,
She ought to do right by me.
Before she gets to saying goodbye,
She ought to think twice,
She ought to do right by me.

I think I'm gonna be sad,
I think it's today, yeah.
The girl that's driving me mad,
Is going away, yeah.

She's got a ticket to ride,
She's got a ticket to ride,
She's got a ticket to ride,
But she don't care.

I don't know why she's riding so high,
She ought to think twice,
She ought to do right by me.
Before she gets to saying goodbye,
She ought to think twice,
She ought to do right by me.

She said that living with me,
  Is bringing her down, yeah.
  For she would never be free,
  When I was around.

Ah, she's got a ticket to ride,
She's got a ticket to ride,
She's got a ticket to ride,
But she don't care.

My baby don't care, my baby don't care.
  My baby don't care, my baby don't care.
  My baby don't care, my baby don't care.
THE BEATLES: "Ticket To Ride" / "Yes It Is" 45 RPM IN MONO, VERY FIRST UK PRESSING,17th APRIL 1965.
To name a Beatles mid-1960's first pressing single 'unplayed' always feels incredulous, to the point I actually consider making
  life easier by stating, 'One Play Mint.'   Then I sold many genuine unplayed Beatles 60's singles before the internet existed at
record fairs, I have several in my own collection!  I bought the two red Parlophone label pair from a deceased famous B.B.C. DJ's
collection, along with two unplayed 1965 and 1966 genuine Demo's, plus with many other treasures.  I sold most but kept the
Beatles Demo's, "Love Me Do" & "Please Please Me" for my collection, I am not bragging, just telling the cynics who sneer at true
Mint existing.  Even as far back as 1962 and January, 1963 or not, they were unplayed, no spindle alignment traces on either
  label centres, I personally have other titles and since joining ebay I have sold several genuine unplayed singles and EP's.
This amazing very first pressing of "Ticket To Ride" also does not have a solitary spindle trace and I do not believe anyone in
any decade of the 20th century, ever deliberately 100% precisely aligned the metal spindle to the exact diameter of the record's
  spindle hole.  During the 1960's record players spindle's had an auto stacking protruding metal clip, spring sprung to load and
remove over, plus it was an era when records were handled and played without caring about scratches on the playing surfaces,
Beatles records were made in astronomical volumes but 99% were indeed handled and played without a thought about marking
the labels, on the contrary, labels had all manner of personalising with stickers, sellotape, handwritten on, carved on and the
rest was general abuse in use to labels and vinyl alike.  I have no other choice to state 'Unplayed / Mint' and be thrilled to
offer such a major rarity, of course I will refrain from the temptation to hear this amazing record, oh yes, this record is in
the original Spring,1965 Parlophone sleeve, unused and unaged, no splits or tears and being authentic, only a record impression
  and a few light related creases.
 

THICKLY TEXTURED PARLOPHONE LABEL: R 5265.
Typical 60's roughly finished paper, so thick, vein like lines run the whole diameter, that is expected but not to have any sign
of being on spindle.  51 years old and looking like new, a very first Beatles single  in incredible condition. Now details that
firmly place this "Ticket To Ride" single's pressing right at the beginning of manufacturing.

MAITRIX: 7XCE 18254 - 3 / 7XCE 182455 - 2  
Maitrix ending digits  '- 1' or lower digits, were not used for April, 1965 "Ticket To Ride" very first pressings, the above are
the same end digits found on the Advance / Promo / Demo singles, made before standard records.

EMI STAMPING CODES: T  1 /  L  2


STRICTLY FIRST PRESSING ONLY,"PARLOPHONE CO. LTD." ON THE LABEL RIMS, AS TYPED IN CAPITAL LETTERS.

THE TEXTURED LABELS ALSO HAVE;
THE "Sold In UK " TEXT ON THE PUSH-OUT CENTRE
'KT' IS EMBOSSED ON THE CENTRE OF SIDE 2.

AS A FIRST PRESSING,THE 'KT' TAX CODE'S STAMPING POSITION IN THE RUN-OUT GROOVES, IS STILL AT
THE 9 O'CLOCK POSITION AND NOT MOVED YET TO 12 O'CLOCK, THAT FOLLOWED LATER ON IN 1965.
AS MUCH AS THOSE MAITRIX ENDING DIGITS WERE BEING CHOSEN ALMOST AT RANDOM, THE STAMPED 'KT'
POSITION DEFINITELY FOLLOWED A SET PATTERN.


THE ORIGINAL EARLY 1965 PARLOPHONE SLEEVE IS VIRTUALLY UNAGED, UNSPLIT AND UNTORN, ONLY A RECORD
IMPRESSION AND A FEW RELATED GENTLE RIPPLES & LIGHT CREASES.  I MUST ALWAYS REMEMBER TO INCLUDE
  THE USUAL LIGHT RUBBING TO THE STANDING EDGE, SO IN OTHER WORDS 100% AUTHENTIC TO 1965 AND
  AND EXACTLY HOW I EXPECT TO FIND WITH AN UNPLAYED RECORD OR ONCE OR TWICE PLAYED RECORD INSIDE.
I resent having to distance this superb sleeve from the fake/counterfeit Parlophone and Apple 7" sleeves flooding ebay, they
  are being made in 2016 and when pictured, they falsely create the impression the record will also look like brand new. This record
does indeed look like it was just pressed and the sleeve is in remarkable condition, in other words, a matching pair even if both
items are 51 years old.  Fake sleeves are only used on heavily played, scratched and worn out records that have matching poor,
ripped sleeves or had to exist for decades in nothing at all.  If that happens, plain white sleeves are available and they are the
honest way to present records without a serviceable original, fake items should never be associated with authentic vinyl.
THE SLEEVE IS IN EXCELLENT+++ / NEAR MINT CONDITION.

I KNOW I HAVE CAREFULLY EXPLAINED THE REASONS FOR STATING 'UNPLAYED' BUT I WILL CONFIRM HERE.
THE RECORD IS UNPLAYED, THERE ARE NO SPINDLE ALIGNMENT TRACES ON EITHER SIDE'S IMMACULATE
  LABELS.   THESE ARE THE  HEAVILY TEXTURED LABELS OF 1965, YOU ONLY HAD TO PLACE THIS ON A 60's SPINDLE
TOO LEAVE VISUALLY OBVIOUS MARKS OF USE, MONO RECORD PLAYERS HAD SPRING CLIPS ON THE SPINDLES FOR
  STACKING / AUTO PLAY.  THERE ARE NO NEEDLE MARKS OR SCRATCHES, ONLY THE FAINTEST TO NEAR INVISIBLE
HANDLING TRACES.  PLAYED OR NOT, THEY WERE HANDLED AT THE RECORD SHOPS WHERE THEY FIRST SOLD. 
A REALLY STUNNING ALL ROUND VERY FIRST PRESSING. WITHOUT ANY NEEDLE MARKS OR SCRATCHES ON
EITHER SIDE, ANY HANDLING TRACES ARE NEAR INVISIBLE TO INVISIBLE, IN UNPLAYED, MINT CONDITION.

Having fully described a "Help!" album on Saturday, there is not a problem listing this single and repeating anything because
the album and same titled single was not released until August, 1965.   Although I will not be playing this record, I can still
discuss the filming, the pressing details, "Ticket To Ride" was an important song on the album and featured in the "Help!" film.
For the Beatles there were two highly significant events early in 1965, the filming for their second feature film "Help!" began
  between the 23rd February and the 11th May,1965, being the first.  They had first been introduced to smoking marijuana or
pot in the Autumn of 1964 and it accompanied everything they did, during the filming of "Help!" they were so stoned, endless
reels of film had to be scrapped because they just kept collapsing into fits of uncontrollable laughter. It was a real shame they
  were not preserved as 'out-takes,' because they would have been great to see, what a wonderful bonus DVD that would have
been when "Help!" was eventually released, I was really hoping some of their antics were kept, but they  were not!  What is still
holding up the DVD of "Let It Be," surely it's way past the time for a release, I have a great bootleg version with black & white
out-takes but an official release with extra goodies would be very welcome.  The second event would have a drastic effect on not
only the Beatles, the latter half of the 60's decade was about to enter into the most astonishing period of musical innovation's
ever known in the history of rock music.
 
  John and George first experienced taking acid or L.S.D. when a dentist friend spiked their coffee with it, John told a very funny
  story about how he and George had totally failed to understand what was happening to them at the time.  Being Lennon, he just
  got on with thoroughly enjoying the hallucinations, although not quite the most reliable driver at the best of times, he somehow
managed to drive them both home safely while still experiencing the hallucinations!  There would now be massive changes after
  acid become a strong and staple part of the Beatles diet, that was mostly around 1966.
 
  The "Help!" film required their songwriting to produce a whole album's worth and even more for the two singles to be released
  between April & July,1965, plus the B-sides. At least by now both sides of their singles were being issued simultaneously in the
  UK & America, but there was  still not a unification of the albums, like the 1964 "Hard Day's Night" LP had,"Help" included film
  score instrumental music with only the actual songs featured in the film released in the USA.   Recording enough songs for the
  album was no problem at all in this period of such amazing inspiration, they even had several unreleased songs taped, they can
  all be found on "Anthology", if incomplete for the r&b instrumental,"12 Bar Original."
 
  John wrote both sides for this April single and "Ticket To Ride" was likely a playful naughty reference to their wildest days in
  Hamburg within the title.  John was really proud of the powerful backing track with the heavy guitars and he later named it as;
  "The first heavy metal record ever made."  Not quite, the previous year the Kinks had released the ultimate heavy guitar riff on
  "You Really Got Me" and the Who were coming along nicely, but John had made a valid point.  It was the first time an incessant
  guitar riff with heavier drums and bass guitar underpinning it, had featured on a Beatles' recording, coupled with the fantastic
  vocal harmonies.  It can accurately be named as one of the earliest ventures towards a psychedelic feel.  "Ticket To Ride" had a
  double meaning, John told 1960's journalist Don Short;

"The girls who worked the streets in Hamburg had to have a clean bill of health and so the medical authorities would give them
  a card saying they didn't have a dose of anything."
Journalist Don Short said he was there with John in Hamburg in 1966 when he was told that, and how to describe those cards,
John coined the phrase, "A ticket to ride."  He added that John could have been joking, but such a strange title had to originate
from somewhere in Lennon's mind.   For the B-Side, "Yes It Is" had a contrasting stunning slow melody, with the most sublime
three part vocal harmonies they ever committed to one of their records to date.  "Yes It Is" did not appear on the UK "Help!" LP
and now it is an almost forgotten track, even though it was a major Beatles recording, which means the original 1965 UK mono
  version is unique to the single.  The track's very delicate nature makes the condition of vinyl imperative, and here is a really
stunning  first pressing!
 
  As hard it is for me to believe, this now a 51 year old single, first pressings of the British Beatles records were made in such
phenomenal volume, it becomes difficult to even visualise, the details specific and exclusive to the first pressings are clearly
laid out in my initial headings.  The only thing to stress is the text rim in capital lettering,"PARLOPHONE CO. LTD." was unique
until towards the end of 1965 and there will be many 'originals' but not actual very first pressings from April, they will have
the "GRAMOPHONE CO. LTD" text that replaced and unified EMI's other labels.  A moment in time frozen to how "Ticket To Ride"
  and "Yes It Is" looked and sounded in it's own time period, even the April, 1965 original Parlophone sleeve is unfaded, unstained,
untorn and still looking how it first appeared in 1965.  With only an unavoidable but gentle impression from the record and just
  a few related ripples creases.  
  {Roy}
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