Iconic Beatles anthem Hey Jude was almost never a hit after a US record shop merchandiser branded the vinyl’s apple logo 'pornographic', newly-unearthed letter reveals.................
Posted on 01/25/2019 2:08:11 PM PST by Red Badger
Hey Jude was the first release of newly-created Apple record company in 1968
It featured as its logo an image of an apple, inspired by a René Magritte painting
Hit single featured a whole apple and a sliced apple on either side of the vinyl
Some thought the sliced apple looked too much like a vagina for distribution
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The Beatles' smash-hit single 'Hey Jude' was almost never a hit - because the vinyl's apple label was dubbed pornographic, a newly-discovered letter has revealed.
The iconic song by the Fab Four was their first release of their newly-created Apple record company in 1968.
But it was nearly scuppered because distributors feared the picture of an apple cut in half on one side looked like a vagina.
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Iconic Beatles anthem Hey Jude was almost never a hit after a US record shop merchandiser branded the vinyl’s apple logo 'pornographic', newly-unearthed letter reveals.................
But it’s better than a naked woman in a dog coller sniffing a leather glove!!
Sometimes an apple is just an apple.
That was the entire point of the Beatles Apple.
Of course pervs would think so....
You never really heard 'Hey Jude' until Yoko covered it...
I don’t believe a word of this.
The Beatles hype was always full-blown plastic bananas.
No way.
By the time Hey Jude came out the Beatles were more than just a force to be reckoned with. The idea that some record shop could have stopped it is ridiculous on the face of it.
Ditto. I think this is complete nonsense.
NO THANKS!!!!!
Don’t worry Kyoko, mommy’s only looking for her hand in the snow.
Hey Jude is timeless. It sucked when it was new and it still sucks to this day...
Public decency laws were quite strong in the 60’s............
Never knew what he saw in her that would make him leave his wife and kids for her..............
She looks triggered bigly.
Never knew what he saw in her that would make him leave his wife and kids for her.
Cynthia was already well on the way to look like Mrs. Doubtfire but you'd think that would mean he'd leave her for Diana Rigg or something.
There was a bar in Olongapo that played it non stop.
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