"What Goes Around" is a song recorded by The Beatles

The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr...

 drummer Ringo Starr

Ringo Starr

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. The recording was produced by Don Was

Don Was

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 and written by Rick Suchow, and released by Starr on his critically acclaimed 1992 Time Takes Time

Time Takes Time

Although the booklet's credits include the statement "Tom Petty appears courtesy of MCA Records," Petty is not listed as a player or vocalist on any of the booklet's track-by-track personnel listings.-Personnel:...

album.

On this track, Starr is lead vocalist and plays drums, with members of both the Bonnie Raitt

Bonnie Raitt

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 band and Tom Petty

Tom Petty

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 and The Heartbreakers joining him; personnel includes Benmont Tench

Benmont Tench

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 on piano and organ, James Hutchinson

James Hutchinson (musician)

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 on bass, Michael Landau

Michael Landau

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 and David Grissom

David Grissom

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 on guitars, and Andrew Sturmer

Andy Sturmer

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, Roger Manning

Roger Manning

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 and Andrew Gold

Andrew Gold

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 on background vocals.

The song was the album's finale and featured a Hey Jude

Hey Jude

"Hey Jude" is a song by the English rock band The Beatles, written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney. The ballad evolved from "Hey Jules", a song widely accepted as being written to comfort John Lennon's son, Julian, during his parents' divorce—although this explanation is not...

-like repeating end chorus. Time Magazine wrote about the song, "'What Goes Around' features Harrison-like guitars gently weeping in harmony, an extended coda a la 'Hey Jude

Hey Jude

"Hey Jude" is a song by the English rock band The Beatles, written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney. The ballad evolved from "Hey Jules", a song widely accepted as being written to comfort John Lennon's son, Julian, during his parents' divorce—although this explanation is not...

', and at the end a cryptic spoken message. The phrase is either 'All the same' or 'I buried Paul'."