Friday, May 22, 2020
Weekend Music Twofer
On this date in 1965, The Beatles got their sixth (or eighth depending on the chart) number 1 hit with a song from the "Help!" soundtrack, "Ticket to Ride." George Harrison's chiming lead- in on his Rickenbacker 12- string guitar (not shown here) just stops you in your tracks.
Weezer dedicates this song, "Hero," to "the stay at home dreamers, the zoom graduators, the sourdough bakers, and the essential workers." Rivers Cuomo has a note at the end expanding on this.