The Beatles - With A Little Help From My Friends

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kankersletje | 2 de Setembro de 2007

A compilation of group and seperate pictures of the greatest band with the best artists ever, singing "With a little help from my friends" from their album Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. Enjoy ! I DO NOT OWN THE PICTURES NOR THE SONG, COPYRIGHT TO THE RIGHTFUL OWNERS!

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With A Little Help From My Friends Lyrics
Artist(Band):The Beatles
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What would you think if I sang out of tune,
Would you stand up and walk out on me.
Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song,
And I'll try not to sing out of key.
Oh I get by with a little help from my friends,
Mmm,I get high with a little help from my friends,
Mmm, I'm gonna try with a little help from my friends.

Do you need anybody?
I need somebody to love.
Could it be anybody?
I want somebody to love.

What do I do when my love is away.
(Does it worry you to be alone)
How do I feel by the end of the day
(Are you sad because you're on your own)
No, I get by with a little help from my friends,
Mmm, get high with a little help from my friends,
Mmm, gonna to try with a little help from my friends

Do you need anybody?
I need somebody to love.
Could it be anybody?
I want somebody to love.

Would you believe in a love at first sight?
Yes I'm certain that it happens all the time.
What do you see when you turn out the light?
I can't tell you, but I know it's mine.
Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends,
Mmm I get high with a little help from my friends,
Oh, I'm gonna try with a little help from my friends

Do you need anybody?
I just need someone to love.
Could it be anybody?
I want somebody to love

Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends,
Mmm, gonna try with a little help from my friends
Ooh, I get high with a little help from my friends
Yes I get by with a little help from my friends,
with a little help from my friends

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With a Little Help from My Friends

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"With a Little Help from My Friends" Song by The Beatles from the album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Released 1 June 1967 Recorded Abbey Road Studios 29–30 March 1967 Genre Pop rock Length 2:44 Label Parlophone PMC 7027 (mono), PCS 7027 (stereo) Writer Lennon/McCartney Producer George Martin Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band track listing [show]13 tracks Side one "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" "With a Little Help from My Friends" "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" "Getting Better" "Fixing a Hole" "She's Leaving Home" "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" Side two "Within You Without You" "When I'm Sixty-Four" "Lovely Rita" "Good Morning Good Morning" "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)" "A Day in the Life"

"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"/"With a Little Help from My Friends" Single by The Beatles from the album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band B-side "A Day in the Life" Released 30 September 1978 Format 7" Recorded Abbey Road Studios February–March 1967 Length 4:46 Label Parlophone R6022 Producer George Martin The Beatles singles chronology "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" (1976) "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" / "With a Little Help from My Friends" / "A Day in the Life" (1978) "The Beatles Movie Medley" (1982)

"With a Little Help from My Friends" 

.(originally titled "A Little Help from My Friends") is a song written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, released on The Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1967. The song was written for and sung by Beatles drummer Ringo Starr as the character "Billy Shears"; it is ranked #304 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr performed this song for the first time together at the David Lynch Foundation Benefit Concert in the Radio City Music Hall, New York on 4 April 2009.^[1]

Contents 1 Origins 2 Personnel 3 Cover versions 3.1 Joe Cocker version 4 Cultural references 5 Notes 6 References 7 External links

Origins

Lennon and McCartney finished writing this song in mid-March 1967^[2], written specifically as Starr's track for the album. It was briefly called Bad Finger Boogie (later the inspiration for the band name Badfinger^[3]), supposedly because Lennon composed the melody on a piano using his middle finger after having hurt his forefinger; but in his 1980 Playboy interview Lennon said: "This is Paul, with a little help from me. 'What do you see when you turn out the light/ I can't tell you, but I know it's mine...' is mine."

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Lennon and McCartney deliberately wrote a tune with a limited range - except for the last note, which McCartney worked closely with Starr to achieve. Speaking in the Anthology, Starr insisted on changing the first line which originally was "What would you do if I sang out of tune? Would you stand up and throw tomatoes at me?" He changed the lyric so that fans would not throw tomatoes at him should he perform it live. (In the early days, after George Harrison made a passing comment that he liked jelly babies, the group was showered with them at all of their live performances.)^[4]

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The song's composition is unusually well documented as Hunter Davies was present and described the writing process in the Beatles' official biography.
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The song is partly in the form of a conversation, in which the other three Beatles sing a question and Starr answers, for example: "Would you believe in a love at first sight? / Yes, I'm certain that it happens all the time."

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The band started recording the song the day before they posed for the Sgt. Pepper album cover (29 March 1967), wrapping up the session at 5:45 in the morning.^[5]

Personnel

• Ringo Starr – vocal, drums, tambourine
• Paul McCartney – backing vocal, piano, bass
• John Lennon – backing vocal, cowbell
• George Harrison – lead guitar
• George Martin – producer, Hammond organ
• Geoff Emerick – engineer

Personnel per Ian MacDonald^[6]

Cover versions

There have been at least 50 cover versions of the song^[7] and it has achieved the number one position on the British singles charts three times: by Joe Cocker in 1968,^[8] Wet Wet Wet in 1988^[9] and by Sam & Mark in 2004.^[10]

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"With a Little Help from My Friends"
Single by Joe Cocker
from the album With a Little Help from My Friends
Released	October 1968 (UK)
Format	7"
Recorded	1968
Genre	Rock/Blues
Length	5:11
Label	Regal Zonophone
Joe Cocker singles chronology
"With a Little Help from My Friends" (1968) "Delta Lady" (1969)

Joe Cocker version

Joe Cocker

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Joe Cocker's version was a radical re-arrangement of the original, in a slower, 6/8 meter, using different chords in the middle eight, and a lengthy instrumental introduction (featuring drums by Procol Harum's B.J. Wilson, guitar lines from Jimmy Page, and organ by Tommy Eyre). It was used as the opening theme song of the American television series The Wonder Years and is one of Cocker's most famous songs. Cocker performed the song at Woodstock in 1969 and that performance was included in the documentary film, "3 Days of Peace and Music". His cover was ranked number two in UpVenue's top 10 best music covers of all time in 2009.^[11] The version heard in the film Across the Universe segues from the original to Cocker's arrangement at the end of the song.^{[citation needed]}

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"With a Little Help from My Friends"
Single by Wet Wet Wet
A-side	"She's Leaving Home" (performed by Billy Bragg)
Released	9 May 1988 (UK)
Format	7"
Recorded	1988
Genre	Pop
Label	PolyGram
Wet Wet Wet singles chronology
"Temptation" (1988) "With a Little Help from My Friends" (1988) "Sweet Surrender" (1989)

"With a Little Help from My Friends"
Single by Sam & Mark
Released	9 February 2004 (UK)
Format	CD
Genre	Pop
Label	S
Sam & Mark singles chronology
"With a Little Help from My Friends" (2004) "The Sun Has Come Your Way" (2004)

Cultural references

"With a Little Help from My Friends" was played as wake-up music on Space Shuttle Mission STS-61.^[12]

Notes

1. ^ "Paul McCartney and Friends: Change Begins Within". Radio City Music Hall. New York, NY: Madison Square Garden. http://www.radiocity.com/events/change-begins-within-409.html. Retrieved 27 March 2010. 
2. ^ Dowlding 1989, p. 165.
3. ^ Matovina 2000.
4. ^ The Beatles 2000, p. 242.
5. ^ Lewisohn 1988, p. 106.
6. ^ MacDonald 2005, p. 246.
7. ^ http://www.secondhandsongs.com/work/48
8. ^ http://everyhit.co.uk/number2.html
9. ^ http://everyhit.co.uk/number4.html
10. ^ http://everyhit.co.uk/number6.html
11. ^ UpVenue.com 2010.
12. ^ Fries 2009.

References

• The Beatles (2000). The Beatles Anthology. San Francisco: Chronicle Books. ISBN 0-8118-2684-8. 
• Chianello, Joanne (2 October 2009). "Harper gets on stage with a little help from his wife". Ottawa Citizen. http://www.ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/Harper+changes+tune+gala/2064118/story.html. Retrieved 2 October 2009. ^{[dead link]}
• Dowlding, William J. (1989). Beatlesongs. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-671-68229-6. 
• Fries, Colin, ed (30 November 2009). "Chronology of Wakeup Calls". National Aeronautics and Space Administration. http://history.nasa.gov/wakeup%20calls.pdf. 
• Lewisohn, Mark (1988). The Beatles Recording Sessions. New York: Harmony Books. ISBN 0-517-57066-1. 
• MacDonald, Ian (2005). Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties (Second Revised ed.). London: Pimlico (Rand). ISBN 1-844-13828-3. 
• Matovina, Dan (2000). Without You: The Tragic Story of Badfinger. Frances Glover Books. ISBN 0965712222. http://books.google.com/books?id=eAURGSMNfTUC. "Apple's Neil Aspinall remembers, "(...) Badfinger just popped in my head. It was from an old Lennon thing. He was playing the piano and he had a bad finger so he called the piece he was playing 'Bad Finger Boogie' (which evolved into 'With A Little Help From My Friends')" 
• "Original liner notes for Capitol’s Beach Boys Rarities album". bradelliott.com. 1983. http://www.bradelliott.com/writings/rarities/liners.html. 
• "Ringo Starr – With a Little Help from My Friends". The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. 13 January 2010. http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-january-13-2010/ringo-starr---with-a-little-help-from-my-friends. 
• Kilpatrick, Sean (4 October 2009). "Stephen Harper rocks out". thestar.com (Toronto). http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/705169. Retrieved 22 October 2009. 
• "UpVenue Top 10 Best Music Covers". UpVenue.com. 2010. http://www.upvenue.com/music-news/blog-headline/1058/top-10-best-music-covers.html. 

External links

• How B.J. Wilson Rescued a Classic Joe Cocker Track (page about B.J. Wilson and Joe Cocker's recording of the song)

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