"Ticket To Ride" was released on April 9, 1965, as the first single of the band's fifth studio album Help! (1965). The track marked a progression in the Beatles' work through the incorporation of drone and harder-sounding instrumentation relative to their previous releases. The song's main guitar riff was played by George Harrison on his Rickenbacker 12-string guitar. The lyrics describe a girl "riding out of the life of the narrator". "Ticket To Ride" went to the pole position in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands, and Ireland. Furthermore it reached no.3 on the Global Year-End Chart 1965 with a total of 6,061,000 points.