<P> The Joe Cocker version was used as the title music for the 1988--1993 television series The Wonder Years . </P> <P> The Cocker version appears in a 2017 TV commercial for Volkswagen . </P> <P> "Lend me your ears" is a Shakespearean reference, taken from the "Friends, Romans, countrymen" speech in Julius Caesar and used at the time as a popular way of asking people to listen . </P> <P> "With a Little Help from My Friends" was played as wake - up music on Space Shuttle Mission STS - 61 . </P>

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