The Beatles ‘Hey Jude’ Celebrates 50th Anniversary

Rolling Stone ^ | August 26, 2018 | Rob Sheffield

[CaliforniaCraftBeer]

The Beatles ‘Hey Jude’- 1968

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_MjCqQoLLA

[CaliforniaCraftBeer]

[Artemis Webb]

If I recall, per paul, it was actually a song written to Julian Lennon. McCartney just changed “Jul” to “Jude.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGF5dNOxge4

[Col Frank Slade]

I honestly cannot stand this song.

Worst Beatles song.

[MrEdd]

The song that proved The Beatles could get the public to listen to a song croaked out as if they were gagging to death.

Obviously the true inspiration for the song wasn’t Julian Lennon, it was Bob Dylan.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I pretty much like them all.

I remember watching the Beatles play Hey Jude live on the Smother’s Brothers show in 1968. Liked it ever since. It’s a happy song.

[Peter W. Kessler]

Well, that’s it.

I
am
officially
old.

[Disambiguator]

Hey Jude is about eight minutes too long.

[CaliforniaCraftBeer]

thank you!

[yarddog]

I remember one day my crew and myself were working on the Rec Fields, getting them ready for another week of guests.

We had a large radio playing as Casey Kasem counted down the top 100 hits of all time. We were surprised when number one was “Hey Jude”.

I like it OK but still don’t think it was number 1.

[CaliforniaCraftBeer]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_MjCqQoLLA

[mjp]

Back in May, John and Paul made a surprise appearance on The Tonight Show, during a brief NYC jaunt. The interview was a fiasco — guest host Joe Garagiola had barely any idea who they were

I remember that interview. I was so looking forward to it, but it was so bad. I am still angry about how bad it was.

[narses]

Horrid song, horrid group. Yuck.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Wasn’t hey Jude about drugs? About injecting heroin?

[uncbob]

Used to like it
Now I can’t stand it
Don’t know why

[4yearlurker]

No. That was "Chestnut Mare" by The Byrds.

[Does so]

They changed the direction of popular music forever.

Not that Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison, and others couldn’t turn out singable melodies. I can’t sing along with anything made since “They Ran Old Dixie Down” and “The Southern Cross”.

[ifinnegan]

Used to like it
Now I can’t stand it
Don’t know why

—

I wouldn’t go as far as “can’t stand”, but yeah.

Beatles are kind of boring.

[huckfillary]

I think you’re mentally ill.