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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.
Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers released a cover version of "Suicide Is Painless" on September 7, 1992, as "Theme from M.A.S.H. (Suicide Is Painless)". In the UK, it was a double A-side charity single to help The Spastics Society, with the Fatima Mansions' take on Bryan Adams' "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" as the other A-side.
With a Little Help from My Friends met with a favourable review from Rolling Stone's John Mendelsohn.Mendelsohn stated that "[Joe] Cocker has assimilated the [Ray] Charles influence to the point where his feeling for what he is singing cannot really be questioned.
Help. Pages in category "Songs with music by Johnny Mandel" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. ... Suicide Is Painless This page was last ...
With a Little Help from My Friends" is a song by the Beatles. 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 Fwends is the second main album of the "Fwends" series by American rock band the Flaming Lips. It is a track-for-track tribute to the Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, with guest performers appearing on each song. [11] It was released on October 27, 2014, through Warner Bros. Records. [12]
This is a list of cover versions by music artists who have recorded one or more songs written and originally recorded by English rock band The Beatles.Many albums have been created in dedication to the group, including film soundtracks, such as I Am Sam (2001) and Across the Universe (2007) and commemorative albums such as Sgt. Pepper Knew My Father (1988) and This Bird Has Flown (2005).
The song was derived from the early Manic Street Preachers songs "Go, Buzz Baby, Go" (with which it shares the chord structure and the phrase "Motorcycle Emptiness" late in the song over the verse chords) and "Behave Yourself Baby", a rough demo with a similar structure, that has the lines "All we want from you is the skin you live within", similar to "All we want from you are the kicks you've ...