<Table> <Tr> <Td> "Ob - La - Di, Ob - La - Da" (1976) Ob - La - Di, Ob - La - Da 1976 </Td> <Td> "Sgt . Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" / "With a Little Help from My Friends" (1978) Sgt . Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band With a Little Help from My Friends1978 </Td> <Td> "The Beatles Movie Medley" (1982) The Beatles Movie Medley 1982 </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> "Ob - La - Di, Ob - La - Da" (1976) Ob - La - Di, Ob - La - Da 1976 </Td> <Td> "Sgt . Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" / "With a Little Help from My Friends" (1978) Sgt . Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band With a Little Help from My Friends1978 </Td> <Td> "The Beatles Movie Medley" (1982) The Beatles Movie Medley 1982 </Td> </Tr> <P> "With a Little Help from My Friends" is a song by the Beatles, written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney from the album Sgt . Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band issued worldwide in June 1967 . The song was written for and sung by the Beatles' drummer Ringo Starr as the character "Billy Shears". The song, paired with "Sgt . Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" and featuring "A Day in the Life" as its B - side, was reissued as a single in the U.S. in August 1978 (#71) and in the U.K. in September 1978 (#63). "With a Little Help from My Friends" was ranked No. 311 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time . </P> <P> Lennon and McCartney finished writing this song in mid-March 1967, written specifically as Starr's track for the album . McCartney said: "It was pretty much co-written, John and I doing a work song for Ringo, a little craft job ." In 1970 Lennon stated: "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 .", but in 1980 Lennon said: "This is 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 ." It was briefly called "Bad Finger Boogie" (later the inspiration for the band name Badfinger), supposedly because Lennon composed the melody on a piano using his middle finger after having hurt his forefinger . </P>

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