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With a Little Help from My Friends is een lied van de Britse popgroep The Beatles. Het nummer werd in 1967 uitgebracht op het album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Het werd geschreven door het schrijversduo Lennon-McCartney voor Beatles-drummer Ringo Starr. Het nummer werd in september 1968 gecoverd door Joe Cocker, die met de plaat een wereldwijde hit had.

"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. As the second track on the album, it segues from the applause on the title track.

A subsequent recording of the track by Joe Cocker from his album of the same name became a success in 1968—topping the UK Singles Chart—and an anthem for the Woodstock era. In 1978, the Beatles' recording, paired with "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", was reissued as a single, and peaked at number 63 in Britain and number 71 on the United States Billboard Hot 100. Starr has regularly performed the song in concert as a solo artist. The song was ranked number 311 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.