With a Little Help From My Friends (take 1 / false start and take 2 / instrumental)
~ Recording by The Beatles
Appears on releases
| # | Title | Length | Track artist | Release title | Release artist | Release group type | Country/Date | Label | Catalog# |
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| 2.2 | With a Little Help From My Friends (take 1 – false start and take 2 – instrumental) | 3:17 | The Beatles | Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (2 CD Remastered 50th Anniversary Edition) | The Beatles | Album |
| Apple Records, Parlophone | B0026524-02, PCS 7027 |
| 2.2 | With a Little Help From My Friends (take 1 - False Start and take 2 - Instrumental) | 3:17 | The Beatles | Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (anniversary edition) | The Beatles | Album | Apple Records, Universal Music Group (has logo with just “Universal Music Group”), Parlophone | 602557455342, PCS 7027 | |
| 3.14 | With a Little Help From My Friends (take 1 – false start and take 2 – instrumental) | 3:15 | The Beatles | Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (super deluxe edition) | The Beatles | Album |
| Apple Records, Parlophone | 0602557455328, PCS 7027 |
| 2.2 | With a Little Help From My Friends (take 1 – false start and take 2 – instrumental) | 3:17 | The Beatles | Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (2CD Anniversary Edition) | The Beatles | Album |
| Parlophone | 0602557455366 |
| 2.2 | With a Little Help From My Friends (take 1 / false start and take 2 / instrumental) | 3:17 | The Beatles | Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (deluxe edition) | The Beatles | Album |
| Apple Records, Universal Music Group (has logo with just “Universal Music Group”) | none |
| 2.2 | With a Little Help From My Friends (take 1 / false start and take 2 / instrumental) | 3:17 | The Beatles | Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (deluxe edition) | The Beatles | Album |
| UMC (branded originally by its full name “Universal Music Catalogue” between 2006–2016; rebranded as Universal Music Recordings in 2023) | [none] |
| 2.2 | With a Little Help From My Friends (take 1 / false start and take 2 / instrumental) | 3:17 | The Beatles | Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (deluxe edition) | The Beatles | Album |
| UMC (branded originally by its full name “Universal Music Catalogue” between 2006–2016; rebranded as Universal Music Recordings in 2023) | |
| 2.2 | With a Little Help From My Friends (take 1 / false start and take 2 / instrumental) | 3:17 | The Beatles | Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Deluxe Anniversary Edition) | The Beatles | Album |
| UMC (branded originally by its full name “Universal Music Catalogue” between 2006–2016; rebranded as Universal Music Recordings in 2023) | |
| 3.14 | With a Little Help From My Friends (take 1 / false start and take 2 / instrumental) | 3:15 | The Beatles | Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (super deluxe edition) | The Beatles | Album |
| UMC (branded originally by its full name “Universal Music Catalogue” between 2006–2016; rebranded as Universal Music Recordings in 2023) | |
| 3.14 | With a Little Help From My Friends (take 1 / false start & take 2 / instrumental) | 3:15 | The Beatles | Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (super deluxe edition) (2017 remix & remaster) | The Beatles | Album |
| UMC (branded originally by its full name “Universal Music Catalogue” between 2006–2016; rebranded as Universal Music Recordings in 2023) | |
| 3.14 | With a Little Help From My Friends (take 1 / false start and take 2 / instrumental) | 3:15 | The Beatles | Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (super deluxe edition) | The Beatles | Album |
| UMC (branded originally by its full name “Universal Music Catalogue” between 2006–2016; rebranded as Universal Music Recordings in 2023) | |
| 1.6 | With a Little Help From My Friends (take 1 / false start and take 2 / instrumental) | 3:17 | The Beatles | Study Songs, Vol. 2 | The Beatles | EP + Compilation |
| FP | |
| Bootleg | |||||||||
| 2.25 | With A Little Help From My Friends (take 1 - false start and take 2 - instrumental) | 3:16 | The Beatles | Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (anniversary edition) | The Beatles | Album |
| Apple Records (fake label; use for unofficial releases purporting to be on Apple Records), Universal Music Group (For unofficial releases with Universal Music Group logo), Parlophone (BOOTLEG LABEL pretending to be the real one) | 4607147921609, PCS 7023 |
Relationships
| engineer: | Geoff Emerick (British recording engineer) |
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| producer: | George Martin (producer, arranger, composer, conductor, audio engineer, and musician) |
| mixer: | Giles Martin (producer) |
| cowbell: | John Lennon (The Beatles) (on 1967-03-29) |
| drums (drum set): | Ringo Starr (The Beatles) (on 1967-03-29) |
| guitar: | George Harrison (The Beatles) (on 1967-03-29) |
| organ: | George Martin (producer, arranger, composer, conductor, audio engineer, and musician) (on 1967-03-29) |
| piano: | Paul McCartney (The Beatles) (on 1967-03-29) |
| recorded at: | Abbey Road Studios: Studio 2 in St John's Wood, Westminster, London (Greater London), England, United Kingdom (on 1967-03-29) |
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| stream for free: | https://open.spotify.com/track/2gawXn44H4l6M5rUT26uZC [info] |
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| recording of: | With a Little Help From My Friends (on 1967-03-29: demo) |
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Related works
With a Little Help From My Friends
| writer: | John Lennon (The Beatles) Paul McCartney (The Beatles) |
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| publisher: | ATV (Northern Songs Catalog) Maclen Music, Inc. (U.S. based publisher for Lennon–McCartney) Northern Songs Ltd. (, in 1967) Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC (1995–2020) Sony/ATV Tunes LLC (ASCAP) (from 1967 to present) |
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| referred to in medleys: | All Together Now (medley) (order: 2) |
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| later parody versions: | Living in Hope With Little Help From My Friends (parody) |
| later translated versions: | Con una pequeña ayuda Jeder braucht einen Freund (With a Little Help From My Friends) |
| is the basis for: | Лезгинка (With a Little Help from My Friends) |
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