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{{Infobox Song
| Name           = With a Little Help from My Friends
| Artist         = [[The Beatles]]
| Album          = [[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]]
| Released       = 1 June 1967
| track_no       = 2 of side 1
| Recorded       = 29-30 March 1967
| Genre          = [[Pop Rock]]
| Length         = 2:44
| Writer         = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Label          = [[Parlophone, Capitol, EMI]]
| Producer       = [[George Martin]]
| 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]]"
}}

{{cquote|Paul had the line about 'a little help from my friends.' He had some kind of structure for it, and we wrote it pretty well fifty-fifty from his original idea.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1970}}

{{cquote|This was written out at John's house in Weybridge for Ringo... I think that was probably the best of our songs that we wrote for Ringo actually. I remember giggling with John as we wrote the lines, 'What do you see when you turn out the light/ I can't tell you but I know it's mine.' It could have been him playing with his willie under the covers, or it could have been taken on a deeper level. This is what it meant but it was a nice way to say it &#151; a very non-specific way to say it. I always liked that.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1994}}

{{cquote|That's 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.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}

{{cquote|They knew it would be for the kids, a sing-along type of song. They thought the album was missing this sort of thing and I sat with them as they tried to get all the rhymes right.|Hunter Davies, the Beatles authorized biographer|1968}}

{{cquote|The original line was, 'What would you do if I sang out of tune, would you stand up and throw a tomato at me,' and I would not sing that line. I hated that line, so I refused to sing it. Besides changing that line, it took a lot of coaxing from Paul to get me to sing that last note. I just felt that it was very high.'|Ringo Starr}}

{{cquote|John and Paul always wrote a song for Ringo on every album. 'With a Little Help from My Friends' proved to be that song. Paul wrote that and wrote it beautifully simple with just five notes. Terribly simple and terribly effective.|George Martin}}


'''Have a listen:'''

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