Those two examples don’t ring the same as “ticket to ride,” to me at all. “Ticket to ride” as a direct euphemism for “certificate to fuck” doesn’t sound like their style. The examples you cite don’t have that problem. If they used the phrase “make ends meet” as a euphemism for, I dunno, some sexual act where two asses touch other, that would be a parallel to the way “ticket to ride” is being used, and that’s what I’m saying doesn’t sound like the Beatles at all. I’m obviously not arguing that the Beatles never made sexual references. Of course not! This is rock and roll. It’s just that a sophomoric pun like that doesn’t ring right to me.
I’ve been known to threaten The Size Twelve Boot Ankle Tap.
In the outro to “Hello, Goodbye,” are the fabs singing “aloha?” Maybe sort of. If they’re not, they should have because “aloha,” of course, means “hello” and “goodbye.”
*“Yeah, okay, well, I don’t mind. I’ll play, you know, whatever you want me to play. Or I won’t play at all if you don’t want me to play, you know. Whatever it is that’ll please you, I’ll do it.” *
Poor George. Man he tried.
And he kinda succeeded in the end. Abbey Road is a very strong album throughout, but the two best songs are both George’s, hands down.
Yep. Something is his Yesterday. A perfectly constructed song.
With his best solo. So much taste and musicality with so few perfect notes.
So true.
Feel guilty yet, WordMan? 
Not sure I get this.
saw them on Ed Sullivan as a kid
Maybe a reference to “Not Guilty,” the unreleased 1968 song where it was George (rather than the usual Paul) who forced his bandmates to play many, many takes of a flawed track.
It sounded funnier in my head…
You “dissed” George. Poster 1 comes along, says something, you backed down. Poster 2 comes along, says something else, you backed down some more. I made my lame crack.
I’ve just returned from Liverpool, spent 3 days and most of it was Beatles related. I’m going to pick the John Lennon quote: Guy in New York asked John, Hey John! When are the Beatles getting back together? John responded ,‘When are you going back to high school?’
Now, that’s not too unique except that obviously the U.K. and USA education systems are very different and someone from 1950s Liverpool would only know about high school from USA films or music. I’ve been to the U.K. numerous times and still I get confused about grammar schools, public schools, O levels, and A levels.
For John Lennon to come up with a quick retort to a heckler referencing a uniquely American education system showed me how much John Lennon loved living in New York.
Most likely our British members know this (or maybe they don’t, it’s such a dated reference), but the whole “He’s a very clean old man” thing was an in-joke. What we might call a “meta” joke today.
Wilfred Brambell, who played Paul’s grandfather, was best known at the time for the BBC sitcom Steptoe & Son (which would become the basis for the American Sanford & Son). A running gag in that sitcom was that Steptoe was constantly being called “you dirty old man.”
So calling him “a clean old man” in Hard Day’s Night was a joke that every Briton at the time would have gotten instantly. But it was lost on Americans, who would just find it to be a bit of random whimsy.
I “dissed” George in this thread? I’ve certainly commented in the past, in other threads, that he is not the most assured guitar player, but I deeply respect his taste for guitar parts, his evolution to becoming a brilliant songwriter, and his role as a member of the Beatles.
ETA: if you’re referring to “Poor George, he tried” - that’s not a dis. I was sincere - during the Let it Be sessions, he really did try as things were fractured around him.
Sigh… like I said, it sounded funnier in my head
Dude - you had me worried there! I didn’t want to be dissing George!
“The people in the cheaper seats, clap your hands. And the rest of you, if you’d just rattle your jewelry.”