"What Goes On" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, featured as the eighth track on their 1965 album Rubber Soul. The song was later released as the B-side of the US single "Nowhere Man", and then as the tenth track on the North America-only album Yesterday and Today. It is the only song by the band credited to Lennon–McCartney–Starkey and the only song on Rubber Soul that features Ringo Starr on lead vocals. The song reached number 81 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in 1966. Composition John Lennon wrote the song in early 1959, likely at 251 Menlove Avenue. The early version of the song is heavily inspired by Buddy Holly and differed substantially from the Rubber Soul version with only the chorus being the same. The Beatles nearly recorded the song in March 1963, but ultimately did not record the song until November 1965 for Rubber Soul. According to Lennon, "it was resurrected with a middle eight thrown in, probably with Paul [McCartney]'s help". Barry Miles also claimed that McCartney and Starr combined for the middle eight. There is no formal middle eight in the song, although one chorus and one verse are extended; Musicologist and writer Ian MacDonald believes those longer sections were written by McCartney. Starr contributed to the lyrics, his first-ever composing credit on a Beatles song. When asked what his contribution was, Starr jokingly responded, "[I wrote] about five words to 'What Goes On' and I haven't done a thing since." MacDonald and musicologist Walter Everett write that Starr's contribution was the lyric "Waiting for the tides of time". MacDonald calls these lines, "pseudo-Dylanesque". The first pressing of the single accidentally omitted "Starkey" in the songwriting credit. Recording "From Me to You" session, 1963 On 5 March 1963, during a session for "From Me To You" and "Thank You Girl", the Beatles wanted to record "What Goes On" and "One After 909" (then titled "The One After 909"). With only enough time remaining to record one more song, they opted for "The One After 909". Lennon and Paul McCartney recorded a demo of this version in 1963, but the song was not used until 1965 as Ringo Starr's vocal piece for Rubber Soul. Rubber Soul sessions, 1965 Neil Aspinall recalls that McCartney made a multitrack home demo of the song in 1965: "When Paul wanted to show Ringo how 'What