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1967 song by the Beatles

"With a Little Assist from My Friends"
Sgtpepperslonelyheartsclubbandsinglecover.jpg

US reissue motion picture sleeve (1976)
Song past the Beatles
from the album Sgt. Pepper'due south Lone Hearts Club Band
Released 26 May 1967 (1967-05-26) [1]
Recorded 29–30 March 1967
Studio EMI, London
Genre Rock
Length ii:46
Label
  • Parlophone (UK)
  • Capitol (The states)
Songwriter(s) Lennon–McCartney
Producer(s) George Martin

"With a Trivial Assistance from My Friends" is a song past the English language rock band the Beatles from their 1967 anthology Sgt. Pepper's Solitary Hearts Club Band. It was written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and sung by drummer Ringo Starr, his lead vocal for the anthology. Every bit the 2nd track on the album, it segues from the applause of the title track.

A subsequent recording of the track by Joe Cocker became a striking single in 1968 and an canticle for the Woodstock era.[2] In 1978, the Beatles' recording, paired with "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Ring", was reissued as a single, and peaked at number 63 in Britain and number 71 in the United states of america. Starr has regularly performed the song in concert as a solo artist. "With a Lilliputian Aid from My Friends" by the Beatles was ranked number 311 on Rolling Stone 's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Fourth dimension.

Background and composition [edit]

Lennon and McCartney finished writing this vocal in mid-March 1967,[three] written specifically as Starr'due south track for the album. McCartney said: "Information technology was pretty much co-written, John and I doing a work vocal for Ringo, a little arts and crafts job." In 1970 Lennon stated: "Paul had the line about 'a trivial help from my friends.' He had some kind of structure for it, and nosotros wrote it pretty well fifty-fifty from his original thought.", but in 1980 Lennon said: "This is Paul, with a little help from me. 'What do you lot run into when you lot turn out the calorie-free/ I can't tell you, but I know it's mine...' is mine."[4] Information technology was briefly called "Bad Finger Boogie" (later on the inspiration for the ring name Badfinger),[5] supposedly because Lennon equanimous the melody on a pianoforte using his middle finger afterward having hurt his forefinger.

Lennon and McCartney deliberately wrote a tune with a limited range – except for the last note, which McCartney worked closely with Starr to reach. Speaking in the Anthology, Starr explained that he insisted on irresolute the first line – which originally was "What would yous call back if I sang out of melody? Would you throw ripe tomatoes at me?" – and so that fans would not throw tomatoes at him should he perform information technology 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.)[half-dozen]

Subsequently it was released in the United States, Maryland Governor and future Vice President Spiro T. Agnew lobbied to accept the song banned because he believed it was about drug utilise.[vii]

Recording [edit]

The Beatles began recording the song on 29 March 1967, the day before they posed for the Sgt. Pepper anthology encompass. They recorded ten takes of the song, wrapping up sessions at 5:45 in the morn.[8] The backing runway consisted of Starr on drums, McCartney playing piano, Harrison playing lead guitar and Lennon beating a cowbell. At dawn, Starr trudged up the stairs to caput domicile – only the other Beatles cajoled him into doing his lead vocal then and in that location, continuing effectually the microphone for moral back up.[4] The following twenty-four hours they added tambourine, bankroll vocals, bass and more electric guitar.[8] American TeenSet editor Judith Sims interviewed each Beatle separately on the 29th as they became bachelor. Others in the studio at diverse times included roadies Mal Evans and Neil Aspinall, publicists Tony Barrow and Terry Doran, photographers Leslie Bryce and Frank Herrmann, and Cynthia Lennon.[9]

Personnel [edit]

According to Ian MacDonald:[10]

The Beatles

  • Ringo Starr – pb song, drums, tambourine
  • John Lennon – backing song, rhythm guitar, cowbell
  • Paul McCartney – backing vocal, piano, bass
  • George Harrison – atomic number 82 guitar

Boosted musician

  • George Martin – Hammond organ

Live performances [edit]

To date, Starr has closed every concert performed past each version of his All-Starr Band with this song. Later on he is done singing, Starr tells the audience "Peace and dear... peace and dearest is the only manner... and proficient night", then walks off the stage. Since 2008, the band segued right into "Give Peace a Risk", during which Starr comes back onstage, then walks off once more.

Starr performed the song with George Harrison, Eric Clapton, Bruce Springsteen, George Michael, Phil Collins, Elton John, and many others at the 1987 Prince'south Trust Concert at Wembley Arena, London.[11]

The September three and 4, 1989 performances at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles appeared on the CD version of the clemency anthology Nobody'south Child: Romanian Angel Entreatment.[ citation needed ]

McCartney and Starr performed this song together for the first time since 1967 at the David Lynch Foundation Do good Concert in the Radio City Music Hall, New York on 4 April 2009. McCartney and Starr likewise performed the song together on "The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to The Beatles", a commemorative show on 27 January 2014, that marked 50 years since the band's first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show,[12] and so again in 2015 at Ringo Starr'due south induction into the Stone and Gyre Hall of Fame.[13]

Certifications [edit]

Cover versions [edit]

There have been at least 50 cover versions of the vocal and it has achieved the number ane position on the British singles charts three times: past Joe Cocker in 1968,[15] by Wet Wet Moisture in 1988,[16] and by Sam & Mark in 2004.[17]

Joe Cocker version [edit]

"With a Picayune Help from My Friends"
With a Little Help from My Friends by Joe Cocker UK vinyl single Side-A.png
Single by Joe Cocker
from the anthology With a Little Help from My Friends
B-side "Something'south Coming On"
Released October 1968 (1968-x) (Uk)
Recorded 1968
Genre
  • Blue-eyed soul
  • difficult stone
Length 5:12
Label
  • Regal Zonophone (Uk)
  • A&M (The states)
Songwriter(s) Lennon–McCartney
Producer(s) Denny Cordell
Joe Cocker UK singles chronology
"Marjorine"
(1968) 		"With a Little Help from My Friends"
(1968) 		"Delta Lady"
(1969)
Joe Cocker US singles chronology
"Marjorine"
(1968) 		"With a Little Help from My Friends"
(1968) 		"Feeling Alright"
(1969)
Audio sample
  • file
  • help

English language singer Joe Cocker'due south version of "With a Piffling Help from My Friends" was a radical re-organisation of the original, in a slower 6
8 instead of the four
iv vanquish in the original Beatles version, 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). Subsequently recording the song, Cocker and record producer Denny Cordell brought it to Paul McCartney, who afterward said of the recording, "it was just mind blowing, totally turned the song into a soul canticle and I was forever grateful for him for doing that."[18]

Cocker'southward version of the vocal reached number one on the U.k. Singles Chart on the week of 6–12 November 1968.[xv] The version too peaked at number 68 on the Billboard Hot 100 (U.s.) on the week of 14 December,[nineteen] number two on the Dutch Top 40 (Netherlands) on the week of 9 November,[20] and number one on Swiss Hitparade'due south tiptop 100 singles chart on the week of 3 Dec.[21] In Belgium's Ultratop 50 singles charts, information technology too peaked at number 1 on the Wallonia nautical chart on the weeks of 14[22] and 21 December[23] and number eight on the Flanders chart on the calendar week of vii Dec.[24]

Cocker performed the song at Woodstock in 1969 and that performance was included in the documentary film, Woodstock. This version gained fifty-fifty more fame when it was used as the opening theme song for the tv set serial The Wonder Years.[25] In 2014, a BBC poll saw it voted the seventh best cover song ever.[26] The version heard in the film Across the Universe segues from the original to Cocker'south arrangement at the end of the song.[ citation needed ] In 2001, Cocker'southward version of the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.[27]

Personnel

  • Joe Cocker – lead vocals
  • Jimmy Page – guitar
  • Chris Stainton – bass
  • Tommy Eyre – organ
  • B.J. Wilson – drums
  • Madeline Bell – bankroll vocals
  • Rosetta Hightower – backing vocals
  • Patrice Holloway – backing vocals
  • Sunny Wheetman – backing vocals
Chart (1968) Acme
position
Kingdom of belgium (Ultratop l Wallonia)[28] 1
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[29] viii
Canada Acme Singles (RPM)[30] 36
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[31] two
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[32] ane
UK Singles (OCC)[33] 1
Us Billboard Hot 100[34] 68
U.s. Cashbox Elevation 100[35] 54

Wet Moisture Moisture version [edit]

"With a Little Aid from My Friends"
Wet Wet Wet cover.jpg
Single past Wet Wet Wet
B-side "She's Leaving Home (performed past Baton Bragg and Cara Tivey)"
Released ix May 1988
Studio Park Lane Studios, Scotland
Genre Pop stone
Length 2:34
Label The Precious Organisation
Songwriter(s) Lennon-McCartney
Producer(s) Wet Wet Wet
Wet Wet Moisture singles chronology
"Temptation"
(1988) 		"With a Little Help from My Friends"
(1988) 		"Sweetness Surrender"
(1989)

In 1988, Scottish soft stone band Wet Wet Wet covered the song and released it as a non-album single in May 1988 with She's Leaving Habitation (a song performed by Billy Bragg and Cara Tivey) as its B-Side. Moisture Wet Moisture's version debuted at Number ane on the United kingdom Singles Chart on 14 May 1988.

Charts [edit]

Sam & Marker version [edit]

"With a Fiddling Help from My Friends"
With-a-Little-from-My-Friends-by-Sam-and-Mark.jpg
Unmarried by Sam & Mark
B-side "Measure of a Man"
Released 21 February 2004 (2004-02-21) (UK)
Recorded 2003
Genre Pop rock
Label xix Recordings
Songwriter(south) Lennon–McCartney
Producer(s) David Eriksen
Sam & Marker UK singles chronology
"With a Little Help from My Friends"
(2004) 		"The Sun Has Come Your Fashion"
(2004)

The United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland duo Sam & Marking released a comprehend of the vocal in 2004 subsequently coming third and 2d in the second and terminal series of Pop Idol.[37] Their version topped the UK Singles Chart.[38]

Tracklist
  1. "With a Lilliputian Aid from My Friends" - 3:08
  2. "Measure of a Man" 4:00
  3. "With a Piffling Help from My Friends" (Video) - 3:08
Credits
  • Arrangement - Sindre Hotvedt, David Eriksen
  • Usher – Sindre Hotvedt
  • Backing Vocals – Håkon Iversen, Mariann Lisland
  • Electric Piano [Fender Rhodes] – Martin Sjolie
  • Assistant engineer – Nick Taylor
  • Guitar – Eivind Aarset
  • Strings - Sindre Hotvedt, Oslo Session Strings
  • Keyboards, Drum Programming, Drums (Boosted Alive) – David Eriksen
  • Mixing – Niklas Flyckt
  • Banana Mixing – Jonas Östman
  • Assistant producer – Martin Sjolie
  • Producer - David Eriksen
  • Recording – David Eriksen
  • Mastering – Richard Dowling
Charts
Chart (2004) Peak
position
Ireland (IRMA)[39] 22
UK Singles (OCC)[xl] one

Other covers [edit]

In 1967, Joe Brown released his version which charted at the same time every bit that of The Young Idea'south top 10 version but with much lesser success.[41] Joe Brown'southward version peaked at number 32 in the U.k. Singles Nautical chart and stayed 4 weeks in the Peak 75 in the UK.[42] It was released on A Pye Records.

The Canadian band Kicking Axe reached number 79 in Canada with their version, January 18, 1986.[43]

In 2018, the rails returned as a clemency released by the NHS Voices with all benefits going to the Great britain National Wellness Service (NHS). The charity version reached simply number 89 and stayed simply 1 week on the UK charts.[42]

References [edit]

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  2. ^ MacDonald 2005, p. 247.
  3. ^ Dowlding 1989, p. 165.
  4. ^ a b "100 Greatest Beatles Songs. No. 61 – 'With a Piffling Help From My Friends'". Rolling Rock . Retrieved xviii June 2012.
  5. ^ Matovina 2000.
  6. ^ The Beatles 2000, p. 242.
  7. ^ Kurlansky, Mark. (2004). 1968 : the twelvemonth that rocked the world (1st ed.). New York: Ballantine. p. 189. ISBN0-345-45581-9. OCLC 53929433.
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  10. ^ MacDonald 2005, p. 246.
  11. ^ Prince's Trust – "With a Piffling Help From My Friends" – Ringo Starr. Retrieved 11 November 2017
  12. ^ "Paul McCartney and Friends: Change Begins Within". Radio Urban center Music Hall. New York City. Archived from the original on 21 January 2010. Retrieved 27 March 2010.
  13. ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: "Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney & Friends 2015 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame". YouTube.
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  15. ^ a b "Official Singles Chart Top fifty: 06 November 1968 – 12 Nov 1968". Official Charts. Uk. Retrieved 8 Baronial 2019.
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  18. ^ Brandle, Lars (23 December 2014). "Paul McCartney Pays Respects to 'Adept Mate' Joe Cocker". Billboard . Retrieved 24 February 2019.
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  26. ^ "Pet Store Boys' Ever On My Mind tops cover version vote". BBC News. 27 Oct 2014. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
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External links [edit]

  • Quotations related to Sgt. Pepper'southward Lonely Hearts Club Band at Wikiquote
  • How B.J. Wilson Rescued a Archetype Joe Cocker Track (page about B.J. Wilson and Joe Cocker's recording of the song)

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