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Help!

original song written and composed by Lennon-McCartney, originally recorded by The Beatles and released in 1965
VisualArtwork musical_work_composition Q839842
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Summary

Help! is a musical work/composition[1]. Help! ranks in the top 4% of musical work composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,619 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Composer: John Lennon[3], Paul McCartney[4]
  • Genre: popular music[5]
  • Performer: The Beatles[6], The Carpenters[7], The Damned[8], Dolly Parton[9], Roxette[10]
  • Language of work or name: English[11]
  • Archives at: British Library[12]
  • Publication date: July 19, 1965[13]
  • Lyricist: John Lennon[14], Paul McCartney[15]
  • Title: Help![16]
  • Different from: Help![17]
  • Form of creative work: song[18]

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Release type: Song[19]

  • Genre(s): funk, pop, pop rock, rock, rock and roll, soul[20]

  • Community tags: beat, funk, pop, pop rock, rock, rock and roll, soul[21]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 8b771af1-a04f-3ac5-bc53-d73849ffad16[22]

Why It Matters

Help! has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] Help! is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

Related Entities

Dolly Parton George Martin Help! John Lennon Parlophone Paul McCartney The Beatles The Carpenters

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [19] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [20] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [21] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [22] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Help!. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/help-q839842
MLA “Help!.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 12 Oct. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/help-q839842.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_help-q839842_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Help!}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/help-q839842}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-12}}
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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 20d ago · Moebeus · 2026-09-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Producer → —
    Single taken from the album or ep → —
    Record label → —
    Instance of → musical work/composition
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Part of: Help!"
  2. 21w ago · TangoAF · 2026-05-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Charted in → —
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Charted in: Nederlandse Top 40, Moving to Help!"
  3. 23w ago · KrBot bot · 2026-05-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Language of work or name → English
    Charted in → —
    Performer → The Beatles, The Beatles, The Carpenters +3
    + 17 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaimvalue:1| */ Iswc: T0101403591, см. / see [[Template:Autofix|autofix]] на / on [[Property talk:P1827]]"
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