The late Joe Cocker is a contender for this year's class of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees, and Paul McCartney is on his side. The Beatles star wrote a letter to the Rock Hall - an international voting panel composed of more than a thousand artists,

As McCartney implied, “With a Little Help From My Friends” was written by him and John Lennon, and sung by Beatles drummer Ringo Starr as the fictional character Billy Shears when it appeared on the group’s 1967 album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.

Paul McCartney is petitioning for late English blues-rock singer Joe Cocker to be inducted into the Rock Hall of Fame this year. In a letter dated Feb. 25, and addressed to “rock and rollers,” McCartney described Cocker,