ringo starr sang with a little help from my friends beatles.
ringo starr sang with a little help from my friends beatles.
who sang with a little help from my friends beatles?
ringo starr
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"with a little help from my friends" is a song by the english rock band the beatles from their 1967 album "sgt. pepper's lonely hearts club band". it was written by paul mccartney and john lennon, and intended as the album's featured vocal for drummer ringo starr. the group recorded the song towards the end of the sessions for "sgt. pepper", with starr singing as the character "billy shears".
with a little help from my friends
"i'm the greatest" is featured in andrew grant jackson's book "still the greatest: the essential solo beatles songs", where the author deems it to be the track that signalled the end of starr's self-styled "album block". writing in "musichound rock", gary pig gold identifies it as starr's "theme song" as a solo artist, typifying both his propensity for nostalgia and the all-star collaborations suggested by his "with a little help from his friends" approach. gold also considers the song to be one of lennon's "best, most sarcastic creations ever". in the 2005 publication "nme originals: beatles – the solo years 1970–1980", paul moody included "i'm the greatest" among the "ten solo gems" from starr's career, describing it as a "lennon-penned tribute to self-love" on which harrison "weighs in with an electrifying lead guitar break". music critic tim riley pairs the track with the beatles' "with a little help from my friends" as starr's signature songs, while ben urish and kenneth bielen describe it as "a sequel of sorts" to "with a little help from my friends", adding: "though not a monumental work, its humor and sense of fun recapture some of the true joy at the core of much of the beatles' best work."
i'm the greatest