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"With a Little Help from My Friends" is a song recorded by English rock band the Beatles for their 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. It was written primarily by Paul McCartney with contributions from John Lennon , and is sung by drummer Ringo Starr (as Sgt. Pepper singer Billy Shears), his lead vocal for the album.
Sheffield Legends plaque in Cocker's home city of Sheffield, England. Cocker was born on 20 May 1944 at 38 Tasker Road, Crookes, Sheffield.He was the youngest son of a civil servant, Harold Norman Cocker (1907–2001), at the time of his son's birth serving as an aircraftman in the Royal Air Force, and Madge (née Lee). [5]
The song appears twice on the album: as the opening track (segueing into "With a Little Help from My Friends"), and as "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)", the penultimate track (segueing into "A Day in the Life"). As the title song, the lyrics introduce the fictional band that performs on the album.
[3] In The New York Times, Robert Christgau wrote: With a Little Help From My Friends is the major triumph of rock interpretation thus far. Cocker's material leans to the conventional ... but his conception and performance, as well as Denny Cordell's production, are always audacious.
A version of the song by Billy Bragg with Cara Tivey reached number one on the UK Singles Chart in 1988, as part of a double-A side with "With a Little Help from My Friends" by Wet Wet Wet. [25] Both tracks were taken from the charity fundraising album Sgt. Pepper Knew My Father.
Kevin Perry, writing Cocker's obituary in the NME, [8] described the album as a classic and one of two things (the other his cover of "With a Little Help from My Friends") that first brought Cocker his fame. In 1971 at the 13th Annual Grammy Awards, Mad Dogs & Englishmen was nominated for the Grammy for Best Contemporary Vocal Performance, Male.
"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
With a Little Help from My Friends may also refer to: With a Little Help from My Friends (Joe Cocker album), 1969; With a Little Help from My Friends (Lu Elliott album), 1968; With a Little Help from My Friends (Neal Morse album), 2007; With a Little Help from My Friends, an album by Larry Carlton, 1969; With a Little Help from My Friends, an ...