"Ticket to Ride" is a song by The Beatles from their 1965 album, Help!. It was recorded 15 February 1965 at Abbey Road Studios and released two months later. In 2004, this song was ranked number 384 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest songs of all time.
"Think for Yourself" is a song by British rock band The Beatles which first appeared on their 1965 album Rubber Soul. Written and sung by George Harrison, it is a warning against listening to lies. In his book I Me Mine he writes, "But all this time later, I don't quite recall who inspired that tune. Probably the government." In a departure from all precedent at the time, the song has two bass lines, a normal one and one created by Paul McCartney's then-unique application of a fuzzbox to his bass.
Nowhere Man by The Beatles
"Nowhere Man" is a song by The Beatles, from their hit album Rubber Soul (in the U.S. on the Yesterday ... and Today album).
Though the songwriting credit is Lennon/McCartney, as with most Lennon/McCartney songs one or the other of the two men was primarily responsible for creating the song. In this case "Nowhere Man" was penned almost entirely by John Lennon (Paul McCartney helped to "polish off the rough edges").
It was recorded on 21 and 22 October 1965. "Nowhere Man" is among the very first Beatles songs to be entirely unrelated to romance or love, and marks a notable instance of Lennon's philosophically-oriented songwriting. It was released as a single (although not in the UK) on 15 February 1966, and reached #1 in Canada and #3 on the Billboard Hot 100.
In the animated movie Yellow Submarine (1968) The Beatles, on their way to save Pepperland from the Blue Meanies, encounter Jeremy Hilary Boob, Ph.D., a strange, little, brown-furred man with a blue face, pink ears, and tail, who lives in the Sea of Nothing, speaks in rhyme, and describes himself as an "eminent physicist, polyglot classicist, prize-winning botanist, hard-biting satirist, talented pianist, good dentist too". "Lousy poet" mutters Lennon. The band realizes one of their songs sums Jeremy up well and they sing "Nowhere Man" about him as they cavort with his magic.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nowhere_Man_(song)
This was the year that my father decided we were't going to have Christmas.
What I know happened is that the day before christmas, late in the afternoon, my mother suddenly gave me $20 and told me to go out and buy christmas presents for my brother and sister, and oh by the way buy something for myself. It was a secret and I wasn't supposed to tell my brother and sister. Just pretend the presents were from Santa.
My sister and brother had gone out and for a few cents, talked somebody into selling them the little tree. Then they went to Pep Boy's and spend a few more penny's on stuff for the tree. Evidently, when they brought the tree home, that's when my mother gave me the money and told me to secretly buy presents.
It's interesting but this happened when I was 10, my sister was 8, and my brother was 7. I'm 55 now. My sister and I had never really talked about it till last year.
For years, my sister had told me how she had always wanted a Doll and my mother had never gotten her one, untill one year at Christmas. I had never talked to my sister about this, and never put 2 and 2 together that I was actually the one who bought her the doll. I kept this "secret" for 45 years. For the first time, we got to looking at the photo's together and it became clear.
