Posted on 08/26/2018 2:26:31 PM PDT by CaliforniaCraftBeer
Back in London, at the piano in his Cavendish Avenue bachelor pad, Paul played it for John and Yoko. When he got to the line “The movement you need is on your shoulder,” he told them, “I’ll change that, it’s a bit crummy.” John replied, “That’s the best line in it!” John heard this new tune as Paul cheering him on in his romance with Yoko. “I took it very personally,” John told Rolling Stone in 1968. “‘Ah, it’s me,’ I said. ‘It’s me.’ He says, ‘No, it’s me.’ I said, ‘Check. We’re going through the same bit.’ So we all are.” Through the years, in all his sniping about Paul, John never hid his admiration for “Hey Jude.” “I always heard it as a song to me,” he told Playboy’s David Sheff in 1980, shortly before his death.
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I was once told that Simon and Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water” was supposedly about drugs as well.
My recollection was that they promoted the "new Beatles 45!!" for several days, and I eagerly anticipated hearing it.
When they finally introduced the world to "Revolution" and "Hey Jude", I recall thinking "Really? That's it?"
As a huge Beatles fan, I never understood the mass appeal of that record.
I’m old enough to remember the sophomoric parody but not the original lyrics.
A nice tune, a bit too long. Pauls shrieking into the mic at the end could be cut. But hey, who am I to criticize a genius?
“Hey, Jude” would have been a decent song if they hadn’t ruined it with that repetitious coda at the end.
WLS also came in crystal clear in the Florida Panhandle back then.
Only at night tho. In the daytime we listened to WBAM the Big Bam in Montgomery, Alabama.
I have heard it enough times to be tired of it.
However, in a live McCartney concert it is truly magical.
I listened to WLS, too - down here in Dallas! Only at night and the weather had to be right. 1967-69 time frame. It would be interesting to see how many of us listened to WLS and where we were located.
Interestingly, there was a station in San Antonio which also came in clear here in the Florida Panhandle.
I would listen to the Houston Astros on it.
WLS
late sixties at night time, here in MS
crystal clear
In his analysis of the composition, musicologist Alan Pollack comments on the unusual structure of "Hey Jude", in that it uses a "binary form that combines a fully developed, hymn-like song together with an extended, mantra-like jam on a simple chord progression"(For the record, I love the song. I seem to be in a distinct minority on this thread, but, like they say, there is no accounting for taste. As another example of that, I can't for the life of me figure out what Hannity sees in his radio theme song, but he obviously loves it.)
Thanks for posting this thread!
Love the song, love the Beatles. The absolute best! I remember the Smothers Brothers Show with Hey,Jude, too. I wanted to be one of those folks crowded around the piano!
WYRE in Annapolis.
I remember it also but I seem to think it was the David Frost Show. I’m probably wrong...
I loved this song back then and still do. Absolutely no one else can even come close to doing it justice.
I think you’re mentally ill.
“They changed the direction of popular music forever.”
Yep, in a queer, nasty, drugged out way.
I’m partial to the early Beatles up to the mid-1960s Rubber Soul/Revolver period, which in my opinion was their artistic peak. Starting with “Sgt Pepper”, they went downhill from there. Still a better band than most but they definitely lost something after “Revolver” that they never regained. Up to that point, they were the greatest pop/rock group that ever existed. And they really did change everything (culture-wise).
Hey Jude is my all time favorite song! Some of you Francis’s on this board need to lighten up.
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