"Breakdown"

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While listening to I Robot yester-day, I remembered something I'd noticed earlier about "Breakdown."

The second verse starts with the lines "Any time it happened I'd get over it / With a little help from all my friends," which is either a pretty obvious reference to some lines from the Beatles' "With a Little Help from My Friends" ("I get by with a little help from my friends") or an incredible coincidence.  Since Alan Parsons had some experience working with the Beatles (as a tape operator during Let It Be and Abbey Road), I'd have more confidence in the former.