Feast of Friends: Five songs that are hymns

About the celebration of the Day of the friend, which is celebrated today, a selection of songs that focus on friendship. The art in all its disciplines has examined different formats to talk about this link. They say that friends are the family that is chosen and, like everything else, it is also reflected in the music.

The Beatles / "With a little help from my friends" (1967)

John Lennon celebrates friendship in a song that will later see the light in
Sargent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Group. Legend has it that the subject originally called "Bad Finger Boogie" because Lennon had an accident on one of his fingers. The plan was to sing it to Ringo Starr and he did, though they had to change some of the lyrics because the drummer was afraid the fans would throw him tomatoes (something that appears in the second verse of the song as a rhetorical question). According to what Paul McCartney was saying in the Beatles' official biography, when they were thinking of a song that Starr was to interpret, they were looking for notes that a child could sing

Queen – "You are my best friend "(1976)

The song was written by John Deacon and is part of the album
A night at the opera . The story tells that the muse of this song was Veronica, Deacon's girlfriend who, in addition to bbad, plays a Wurlitzer electric piano, since Freddie Mercury did not want to use it. In the same spirit of another type of friendship: many think that to work as a couple, the most important thing – beyond the physical attraction – is the camaraderie and it looks like it walked because later Veronica went from girlfriend to wife of famous bbadist

Toy Story – "I am your faithful friend"

A few songs so deep in the nostalgic 90s.
Toy Story is an adult film with the label "childish". The relationship of a child with those first lifeless friends, the toys, and the dream that they have a life of their own is tangibly reflected in the Disney movie. Although it's only in his third part, when he achieves one of the most compelling moments in the seventh art about breaking that represents the pbadage of a child to an adult. "I am your faithful friend" talking about this, friendship in the early years of life.

"Los chicos" – Andrés Calamaro

If there is something that stresses Andrés Calamaro, it is at the absent friends, those who are gone before him and this song, just wear this flag. Salmon do not only think often of people who have been important in their career, like Miguel Abuelo or Julián Infante, but he often names them. And even made a song thinking of them

"To your amigo" – A fondo blanco (1999)

Ricardo Iorio with "At Your Amigo" has achieved an important milestone: that a theme of Almafuerte be played on the radio. Not only because it is an ode to friendship, but because the singer connects to it with a style and melodies more "friendly"

From yapa: The Rembrandt – "I will be there for you "

And if we continue in this line and without resorting to obvious things like the theme "Friends" of the Dwarves Green or "Friends will be friends" by Queen, "I'll be here for you", the theme that was the opening of the series
Friends it is impossible to avoid. It's a song that definitely talks about values ​​and the importance of friendship.