"Ticket to Ride" is a song by the Beatles from their 1965 album, Help!. It was recorded 15 February 1965 and released two months later. It was also used in the 1965 film Help!, The Beatles' second film, and was included on the film's soundtrack. In 2004, this song was ranked number 394 on Rolling Stone's list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". The song was written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney (credited to Lennon–McCartney). Lennon said that McCartney's contribution was limited to "the way Ringo played the drums". McCartney said that was an incomplete description, and that "we sat down and wrote it together... give him 60 percent of it... we sat down together and worked on that for a full three-hour songwriting session." The song features a coda with a different tempo that extends the song's length past three minutes. Lennon said this double-time section (with the lyric "My baby don't care") was one of his "favourite bits" in the song. While the song lyrics describe a girl .. …