[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

[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.

[Peter W. Kessler]

Well, that’s it.

I
am
officially
old.

[Disambiguator]

Hey Jude is about eight minutes too long.

[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

[daler]

As a teenager in northern MN in the '60s I regularly went to sleep listening to WLS Chicago, which came in loud and clear at night.

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.

[Huskrrrr]

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?

[Fiji Hill]

“Hey, Jude” would have been a decent song if they hadn’t ruined it with that repetitious coda at the end.

[Songcraft]

I like a quote from this interesting Wikipedia article about "Hey Jude" [CLICK HERE], where one guy there quoted there talks briefly about the unusual, two-part (hymn/mantra) structure of the song:

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!

[Zirondelle]

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!

[WashingtonSource]

I loved this song back then and still do. Absolutely no one else can even come close to doing it justice.

[SamAdams76]

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).

[bethelgrad]

Hey Jude is my all time favorite song! Some of you Francis’s on this board need to lighten up.