With a Little Help from My Friends
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| "With a Little Help from My Friends" | ||
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| Song by The Beatles | ||
| Album | Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | |
| Released | 1 June 1967 | |
| Recorded | 29-30 March 1967 | |
| Genre | Pop Rock | |
| Length | 2:44 | |
| Label | Parlophone, Capitol, EMI | |
| Writer | Lennon/McCartney | |
| Producer | George Martin | |
| Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band track listing | ||
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| “ | 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. | „ |
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—John Lennon, 1970 |
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| “ | 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 — a very non-specific way to say it. I always liked that. | „ |
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—Paul McCartney, 1994 |
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| “ | 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. | „ |
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—John Lennon, 1980 |
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| “ | 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. | „ |
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—Hunter Davies, the Beatles authorized biographer, 1968 |
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| “ | 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.' | „ |
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—Ringo Starr |
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| “ | 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. | „ |
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—George Martin |
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